Current agent frameworks authenticate identity but do not enforce what agents are permitted to do, when, and under what conditions. There is no native primitive for behavioral contracts — thresholds for autonomous action, approval windows, or constrained execution schedules — so agents either act without limit or require manual oversight. This gap means trust cannot be delegated at meaningful granularity.

Agent frameworks today authenticate WHO an agent is but not WHAT it's allowed to do — there's no enforceable primitive for spend limits, time windows, action types, or approval escalations, forcing teams into all-or-nothing trust.

Engineering teams deploying autonomous agents in production environments where agents interact with APIs, databases, payments, or external services on behalf of organizations.

Companies are already building bespoke guardrails internally because shipping agents without behavioral constraints is a liability nightmare — a standard policy layer they can drop in saves weeks of custom work and reduces incident risk.

MVP is an open-source policy engine (OPA-style for agents) with a hosted control plane: define YAML/JSON behavioral contracts (spend caps, action allowlists, time windows, escalation rules), deploy as middleware that intercepts agent tool calls and enforces or escalates in real-time.

The API gateway/security middleware market is $5B+ and every production agent deployment (thousands today, millions within 2 years) will need this layer — analogous to IAM becoming mandatory for cloud.