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Notes on giving
agents boundaries.

What we’re shipping, what we’re learning, and how to make agent permissions explicit.

Latest release

September 29, 2026 · 11am CDT · 2 min read

Introducing Jev for decisions in Gated

Our first Jev release brings advisory context to Shadow Mode: intent alignment, risk, prompt-injection signals, and review routing. Policy keeps the final say on permission.

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Jev × Gated

More context.
The same permission boundary.

Jev assessment: Intent · risk · review context
Gated policy: Allow · deny · require approval

Staging pilot · Shadow Mode

Earlier posts

Engineering

Observe first: why Shadow Mode comes before enforcement

Before a workflow can enforce a permission boundary, teams need to understand the actions their agents request—and the limits of observation.

September 24, 2026 · 2 min read

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Practical guides

What should a human actually approve?

A useful approval names the action, target, and exact inputs. Here’s how to make the review concrete enough to mean something.

September 22, 2026 · 2 min read

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Ideas

Tool access isn’t permission for every action

An API key connects an agent to a service. Action-level permissions define what it should be allowed to do with that connection.

September 15, 2026 · 2 min read

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Notes on givingagents boundaries.

Latest release

Introducing Jev for decisions in Gated

Earlier posts

Observe first: why Shadow Mode comes before enforcement

What should a human actually approve?

Tool access isn’t permission for every action

Follow the private preview.

Notes on giving
agents boundaries.