From a compliance violation. A data breach. A six-figure cloud bill.
Altrace is the control plane for AI agent authority. What they can access, what they can spend, what they can do — enforced at the infrastructure layer. In Kubernetes, agents have no route around it. And every decision is recorded.
The Risk Is Real
An agent hits a loop, burns through your LLM budget in minutes. Without cost governance, there's no circuit breaker — just a bill.
A worker agent inherits its orchestrator's full authority. One delegation mistake, and a subordinate agent can access models and tools it was never meant to touch.
When something goes wrong, you need to know what happened, which agent did it, and why the system allowed it. Prompt logs don't answer those questions.
The Problem
Instructions to the model, not enforcement. A jailbroken, confused, or creatively autonomous agent ignores them. They're suggestions — not controls.
Doesn't scale. If you're running 50 agents making hundreds of LLM calls per hour, a human in the loop becomes a human in the way.
Wait until a breach, a compliance finding, or a runaway agent makes the decision for you. By then, the damage is done.
There's a fourth option.
Product
In Kubernetes deployments, one API call blocks all new LLM requests for a team or individual agent. The kill switch is enforced at the network layer — the agent process has no route to bypass it. Kill state persists through restarts and power loss.
When an orchestrator delegates to a worker agent, Altrace enforces that the worker's authority is a strict subset of what it was granted. Budget, model access, tool permissions, data classification — all attenuated through delegation contracts. This is mathematically enforced, not policy-enforced.
Altrace records every governance decision in a tamper-evident audit log. Request ID, agent identity, which stage in the decision chain produced the result, and the machine-readable reason code. When an auditor asks what happened, you have the answer — with causal context, not just timestamps.
Operator Control
Altrace fires a structured alert to Slack with full context — agent ID, violation reason, affected budget, and a one-click kill switch. No log diving. No incident post-mortem at 2am.
Compliance
Human oversight enforcement with machine-readable decision reasons
Access control and security attribute governance
Content-blind governance — your data never leaves your infrastructure
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