For Security & CISOs

Hard boundaries for agentic AI — enforced before it acts

Autonomous, tool-using agents expand the attack surface: prompt injection, data exfiltration, unsafe tool calls. Guardrails estimate and fail open. EVE AI Core is a deterministic gate that fails closed — every action is authorized before it runs.

The Gap

Agents act; guardrails guess

A probabilistic guardrail is a second model estimating whether an output looks unsafe after it is generated — and when it is unsure, it tends to fail open. For an autonomous agent that can call tools, move data, and take actions, “usually catches it” is not a boundary. The boundary has to be a deterministic decision, made before the action executes, that fails closed.

What You Get

A deterministic gate in front of every action

Fail-closed enforcement

When the gate cannot confidently permit an action, it denies. Deterministic, not probabilistic — the opposite of a guardrail that fails open.

Tool + action authority

Tools and agents must be registered to pass the gate, and each step of an autonomous plan is a separately governed decision.

Injection handled at the action

Prompt-injected instructions are governed by the resulting action, regardless of how the instruction arrived.

Signed forensic trail

Every allow and block is an Ed25519-signed, hash-chained record for incident review and replay.

How It Fits

Runtime control, not another model to trust

EVE governs what any model or agent is permitted to do; it is a deterministic control plane in front of your AI, not another probabilistic model added to the stack. Charter HARD_BLOCKs are enforced regardless of autonomy level. See EVE Agent Infrastructure and Security.

Common Questions

FAQ

See it on one of your decisions

Bring one real decision — see it enforced and proven

We run one of your real decisions through the deterministic gate, show the ALLOW / MODIFY / BLOCK verdict, and let you replay it and verify the signature offline. Founding design-partner pilot from $27,500 (standard $37,500).

Related: Why EVE · Platform · EVE CoreGuard · EVE Proof.