01
Verify every action
Evaluate each governed tool, API, model, database, and file-system action immediately before execution.
7
sequential runtime admission checks
5 fields
in every canonical decision artifact
SDK + API
Python, TypeScript, and REST onboarding paths
Before action
policy enforcement at the execution boundary
Assume breach
Agents should never receive implicit trust.
A trusted user or approved model does not make every proposed action safe. Sector8 continuously evaluates the action, its context, its target, and the policy that governs it.
02
Apply least agency
Restrict agents to approved operations, capabilities, identities, objects, and data boundaries.
03
Produce evidence
Record an explainable, policy-versioned decision artifact for every governed evaluation.
The difference
Do not just observe the incident. Stop the action.
Sector8 evaluates the proposed action independently of the agent that requested it. Safe work continues. Unsafe execution never reaches the target.
Agent proposes
Run the approved test suite
Read the production secret file
Send customer PII to a model
Call an unregistered finance tool
Sector8 Gate
Identity + capability
Policy + request risk
PII / PHI compliance
Evidence + reason code
Enforced outcome
ALLOW · execute safely
DENY · SENSITIVE_PATH_BLOCKED
DENY · PRIVATE_IP_BLOCKED
DENY · TOOL_NOT_REGISTERED
Architecture
One authority across the agent stack.
Keep the agents, models, frameworks, and internal systems your teams already use. Add a consistent decision boundary before execution.
Agent plane
Claude CodeLangGraphOpenHandsInternal agents
Sector8 control plane
IdentityPolicyComplianceEvidence
Execution plane
MCP toolsInternal APIsModelsData systems
Control mapping
Zero Trust, operationalized.
Zero Trust is not a model setting. It is a repeatable decision made at the point where autonomous intent becomes a real action.
| Zero Trust principle | Security requirement | Sector8 control |
|---|---|---|
| Verify explicitly | Do not trust an action because its user or agent was previously approved. | Evaluate identity, action, target, context, and policy immediately before execution. |
| Use least privilege | Limit the authority available to autonomous systems. | Enforce scoped runtime keys, tool registration, capabilities, RBAC, and object ownership. |
| Assume breach | Expect compromised prompts, tools, workflows, or model outputs. | Block sensitive paths, unapproved tools, and threshold breaches before execution. Fail closed if the gate cannot decide on a routed action. |
| Maintain evidence | Make decisions explainable and reviewable after the event. | Generate a reason code, trace ID, evidence hash, outcome, and policy version. |
Sector8 independently aligns its execution-governance capabilities with established Zero Trust principles. References to third-party frameworks do not imply endorsement or partnership.
Audit-ready decisions
Know what happened and why.
Every evaluation produces a canonical decision artifact. Security and compliance teams can investigate the action without exposing raw sensitive content in the public record.
decision.json
Deny{
"decision": "DENY",
"reason_code": "SENSITIVE_PATH_BLOCKED",
"decision_trace_id": "17e797c0-eb5c-4f97-b4a1-2d3e4f5a6b7c",
"evidence_hash": "4cb7f786d1f3b57e6f98f3e60d2eb6b8",
"policy_version_id": "pset_default"
}Product truth
What the gate does today
Execution-boundary enforcement for actions your runtime sends to Sector8.
- Per-action ALLOW or DENY decisions
- Scoped runtime-key authentication
- Tool, capability, role, and object checks
- Fail-closed for actions your runtime sends to Sector8
- Canonical evidence artifacts and decision feed
See it in action
Prove control on one consequential workflow.
Choose one agent, one action target, and one policy boundary. Sector8 will demonstrate safe work continuing, unsafe execution stopping, and evidence appearing in the decision feed.
1Choose workflow2Integrate SDK or API3Run ALLOW + DENY4Review evidence