The Problem
AI agents are moving from chat into action: sending messages, changing code, deploying software, modifying access, exporting data, and triggering financial workflows.
AI agents are moving from chat into action: sending messages, changing code, deploying software, modifying access, exporting data, and triggering financial workflows.
Most organizations rely on IAM, policy engines, approval tickets, AI gateways, or manual review. These controls are useful, but often reduce action governance to allow, deny, or escalate.
Not all mistakes are equal. Some actions can be reversed in seconds. Others create customer, financial, security, or operational damage that is hard to undo.
SMERC scores runtime action signals before execution, then recommends whether an agent should allow, throttle, freeze, deny, or escalate.
High-signal scenarios include Kubernetes routing changes, funds transfers, security log deletion, customer data exports, SIEM rule changes, and AI-generated production deployments.
The validation suite evaluated 250 scenarios. SMERC differed from traditional allow/deny policy in 82.8% of scenarios, and 69.6% were constrained rather than blocked.
Automatic assumption testing and design-partner ranking.
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