CapabilitiesRuntime Enforcement
22ENFORCEMENT
Agent Firewall
The firewall should make “agent attempted X; policy stopped it because Y” immediately understandable.
- Priority
- P0
- Phase
- MVP
- Primary owner
- Security Product
- Status
- Blueprint
Objective
The Agent Firewall is the policy enforcement product experience layered on the gateway. It should make autonomous actions governable using understandable rules, not force customers to reason about low-level proxy configuration.
What to build
- Control by tool, action, endpoint, resource, data classification, destination, value/amount, user context and risk.
- Create reusable guardrail packs for finance, email, file systems, databases, source control and admin APIs.
- Support monitor, warn, approve, redact and block modes.
- Create emergency global rules such as “block all external writes from autonomous agents.”
Implementation decisions
- Expose policy explanation before and after action execution.
- Provide safe defaults for destructive verbs: delete, transfer, refund, publish, invite, grant, rotate and export.
- Allow local exceptions with owner, reason and expiry.
- Integrate policy violations with SIEM/SOAR and ticketing.
Definition of done
- A security admin can protect a new API action without changing agent code.
- Users can trace a denied action to the exact policy condition.
- Emergency rules propagate within a defined SLA.
Success metrics
- Blocked action count
- Approval-required action count
- Policy exception rate
- Emergency propagation time
PRODUCT MOMENT
The firewall should make “agent attempted X; policy stopped it because Y” immediately understandable.
This control is specified on page 22 of the blueprint.