Clear thinking.
Consequential systems.
Practical explanations of agent authority, evidence and safe effects. Start with the problem, then go one layer deeper.
What is an agent control plane?
The layer between what an agent proposes and what your systems allow.
Approval is not permanent authority.
Why an action that waits must check again before it runs.
Unknown is not permission to retry.
A network timeout is a communication result—not an execution result.
These are explanatory guides based on the DriftGate platform model. Examples are illustrative, not customer testimonials or evidence of shipped integrations.
Understand the failure. Find the control.
Source-backed reports and our control-design analysis. Separate from customer stories and workflow examples.
A public issue is input—not permission.
In a controlled demonstration, Invariant Labs showed an assistant following instructions in a public GitHub issue to retrieve private repository information and disclose it in a public pull request.
When a shopping assistant leaves its job description.
Lasso Security reported testing Amazon’s product-question assistant and eliciting responses outside its intended shopping purpose. The article describes the team’s tests, not a quantified loss or arbitrary code-execution finding.