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Safety certification for autonomous AI agents

As AI agents gain tool-use capabilities — executing code, making API calls, modifying databases — every action becomes a proposed state change that needs safety certification before execution. The same kernel architecture applies.

Pre-execution safety for every agent action

The QAE kernel sits between the agent’s intent and the outside world. Every proposed action is certified against multiple constraint channels before it executes.

Action Gateway

Pre-Execution Interception

Every agent tool call — file system writes, API requests, database mutations, code execution — passes through the safety kernel before execution. The agent proposes; the kernel certifies or blocks. No action bypasses the constraint evaluation.

Propose → Certify → Execute. Never Execute → Hope.
Constraint Channels

Multi-Dimensional Safety

Scope constraints (is this action within the agent’s authorized domain?), reversibility constraints (can this be undone?), rate limiting (action frequency bounds), data access constraints (PII, credentials, secrets), and resource consumption limits — all evaluated in parallel.

Same binding-constraint architecture. Same certificate output.
Audit Chain

Hash-Chained Evidence Trail

Every certification decision — certified, warning, escalated, or blocked — is appended to a hash-chained audit log with SHA-256 integrity. Tamper-evident. Append-only. Every agent action is accountable, every decision is reproducible.

Regulatory-grade audit trail for AI systems.
As agentic AI systems move from demos to production, safety certification transitions from “nice to have” to regulatory requirement. QAE Substrate is built for this inflection.

Benchmarks

Production measurements from the Rust engine. Deterministic, reproducible, and fast enough for real-time agent certification.

MetricResultContext
Agentic Certification 5 channels Budget, rate, scope, reversibility, data sensitivity — evaluated per agent action before execution
Supplementary Analysis Enabled Binding constraint detection + barrier certificate verification in every v2 response
Certificate Hashing SHA-256 Deterministic, pipe-delimited canonical form. BTreeMap ordering. Bit-identical across runs

Pre-execution certification for every agent action.

Start with the free tier — 1,000 certifications/month, full API access, interactive sandbox. For enterprise licensing or custom constraint channels, talk to the founder.