Autonomy within
defined authority.
Agents propose. Your policies decide. LayeredTrust enforces. People stay in charge.
Before an agent actsIs this agent allowed to take this action, with these parameters, at this moment, in this context, and does it require human-in-the-loop approval?
AfterwardCan you prove it without trusting the system that recorded it?
Keys and credentials are managed by the LT Courier (sidecar) and the LT Composer, not by the agent.
Built on open standards
Access is not authority.
OAuth, OIDC and MCP tell a system who is calling and which door they may open. They say nothing about what an agent may do once it is through, how much, to whom, or who said so.
Agents move fast. Humans decide what matters.
You write the policy in business terms. LayeredTrust checks every action against it at the moment it happens, so people see only the exceptions.
Within the limits
A $1,000 payment to an established vendor, under every cap, executes immediately with full proof logged.
Near the edge
Spend to one vendor nears its monthly cap. The action proceeds and the right person is told.
Outside the limits
A new vendor, or an amount over the ceiling, waits for a signed approval before anything executes.
From an agent's request to a recorded action.
A thin layer on top of the infrastructure you already run. Each request is checked at the moment it happens, and each decision is signed.
When a person needs to decide, they see exactly what would run.
The approver reviews the action and the amount. Their signature covers those exact arguments, so an approval cannot be reused for anything else.
Every action traces back to a verified chain of command.
A log is a claim by the system that wrote it. Here, each link from the original human approval to the executed call is verified against a published cryptographic key before the action completes.
Anyone can check the record afterward, including someone who does not trust you.
Signed approval releasing this exact payment, once, for this vendor and amount.
Signed the credential granting the finance agent its authority, bound to its key, until a set expiry.
Signed proof binding this exact call, its arguments, and the task that produced it.
Verified every link above, checked it against policy, and signed the record that closes the chain.
Deploy agents you can defend to an auditor.
Know exactly who each agent is
Credentials are bound to the agent that requested them. A copied token cannot be replayed by anything else.
Delegate with limits you set
Amounts, counts, vendors, time windows, written in business terms and enforced on every call.
Keep a person in the loop, only when it matters
Single, multi-party and sequential approvals, triggered by policy, not by volume.
Limit the damage of a bad instruction
Rules are enforced outside the agent, so an injected prompt cannot talk its way past a spending cap or a scope.
Revoke exactly what needs revoking
Pull one credential or one role and it takes effect on the next call, without touching anything else in force.
Keep secrets out of the agent's hands
Agents never hold your upstream API secrets. They stay with your own gateway.
No changes beyond configuration.
LayeredTrust is a thin layer on top of the identity and agent infrastructure you already run. OAuth, OIDC and MCP stay as they are, and your existing systems see LayeredTrust as another authenticated client.
Run it fully managed in your chosen cloud region, or in your own environment for regulated and air-gapped needs.
Payments are the start, not the limit.
Finance
Bills, payments and vendor creation with amount, count and daily-spend limits.
Insurance
Claim approvals bounded by size and type, with a named approver above the line.
Healthcare
Treatment authorization that proves who approved what, and when.
Operations
Shipment release, code merges and cloud changes gated by who must sign off.
The Stage 3 series.
Stage 1 is deploying agents. Stage 2 is putting guardrails around them. Stage 3 is securing them at the level of the individual transaction.
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