SYS / 00 — Production foundationsArchitecture · Security · Delivery

Systems & infrastructure

Intelligence needs
infrastructure.

The systems layer that lets agents run in production: runtime, isolation, permissions, audit and cost control.

Model output is a proposal.
Authority comes from the system around it.

FIG. 01 / REFERENCE ARCHITECTURELOGICAL VIEW
Reference architecture and trust boundaries A request crosses identity and policy checks into a deployment boundary. Runtime sends proposed actions to a gateway. The gateway routes approved work to an isolated executor or a permission-scoped state service, and approved model traffic to an external provider boundary. Runtime, gateway and executor emit redacted events to an audit collector. Arrows show request and event direction, not return traffic. REQUEST PATH / APPROVED ACTIONS ONLY IDENTITY + ACCESS POLICY Human or service principal · customer authority DEPLOYMENT BOUNDARY 01 / RUNTIME + ORCHESTRATION Bounded steps · deadlines · cancellation proposed action 02 / TOOL + POLICY GATEWAY Authorize · validate · meter · deny by default PROVIDER BOUNDARY MODEL ENDPOINT Approved route egress 03 / ISOLATED EXECUTOR Scoped tool execution No implicit network access 04 / STATE + MEMORY Scoped retrieval Retention by agreement 05 / OBSERVABILITY + AUDIT Redacted events Scoped collector
A design reference, not a deployed environment. Boundaries and collector placement are agreed for each deployment.
01 / EXPLICIT AUTHORITY

No permission inherited from a prompt.

02 / BOUNDED EXECUTION

Every action has limits.

03 / TRACEABLE OUTCOMES

Every boundary has an owner.

01 / Capability matrix

What production actually requires.

Five control surfaces. For each, an engineering responsibility and an explicit dependency on the customer environment.

Responsibility map
Production controls / responsibility at a glance
Control surfaceOur engineering responsibilityCustomer environment dependency
CTRL / 01Isolation & execution ↗Bound tool execution, restrict egress and define resource limits.Approve workload placement, infrastructure boundaries and network policy.
CTRL / 02Identity & permissions ↗Check principal, action and resource scope before dispatch.Own identity lifecycle, source permissions and access approvals.
CTRL / 03Audit & observability ↗Correlate policy decisions, execution outcomes and redacted events.Provide approved sinks, access controls and retention requirements.
CTRL / 04Cost & quotas ↗Attribute usage to workloads; enforce configured execution budgets.Set spending authority, provider limits and acceptable budget policy.
CTRL / 05Failure & recovery ↗Stop unsafe work, preserve evidence and define recovery paths.Own business continuity, escalation authority and downstream recovery.

The engagement scope defines what we implement. Testing, release acceptance and changes to these boundaries are shared decisions.

The engineering position

The bottleneck is not the model.
It is the system around it.

A capable model does not decide who may act, where data may go, or how an incomplete action should recover. Those are system responsibilities.

Production readiness means making those decisions explicit, testable and owned—before expanding what an agent can do.

Our engineering position
02 / From design to operation

Build the boundary. Keep it intact.