Runtime · Multi-agent governance

Agent Firewall™

Every handoff between your AI agents is validated against policy. Unauthorised transfers are blocked. Your data never leaves your network.

FAIL-CLOSEDLOCAL INFERENCEDARMA RUNTIME

The problem with multi-agent systems

Modern AI architectures use multiple agents that collaborate. One agent retrieves data, another analyses, a third acts. Each handoff is a point where control can be lost.

Uncontrolled data flow

Data flows between agents without validation. No one knows what was transferred — or whether it should have been.

Fail-open by default

Most systems fail open. If an agent doesn't respond, the next one passes data through anyway.

No audit trail

Handoffs aren't logged. When something goes wrong, there's no way to reconstruct what happened between agents.

What Agent Firewall™ does

Not a monitoring tool. An enforcement mechanism that sits between your agents.

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Every handoff between agents is validated against your defined policy before data flows through. No exceptions.

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Unauthorised transfers are blocked in real time. The system is fail-closed — doubt means stop, not continue.

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All validation runs locally. Your data is never sent to external services to be checked.

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Every blocked and approved handoff is logged in the Audit Ledger™ with timestamp, policy reference, and result.

Three guarantees

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Data leaving the network

All inference runs locally. No cloud dependency for policy validation.

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Latency per handoff

Policy validation adds less than one second per transfer.

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Local control

You own the rules. You own the data. You own the log.

Agent Firewall™ in DARMA

Agent Firewall™ covers four of five DARMA layers. It's not one product — it's a governance layer across your agent architecture.

DelegationEnforces which agents may hand off to whomACTIVE
AuthorizationValidates permissions at every handoffACTIVE
RuntimeBlocks unauthorised transfers in real timeACTIVE
Model IntegrityCovered by Agent Shield™ Runtime
AccountabilityLogs all handoffs in Audit Ledger™ACTIVE

Running multi-agent systems?

Your agent architecture is assessed to identify where handoffs lack policy enforcement.

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