Launching today
HaltState
The Compliance Layer for Agentic AI
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The Compliance Layer for Agentic AI
3 followers
HaltState is the runtime governance layer for AI agents. It enforces policies on tool calls in real time (<50ms), provides deterministic kill switches (session/agent/tool), routes high-risk actions to human approval, and exports cryptographically verifiable audit trails (“Proof Packs”) to support SB-53 compliance and incident response.
Why we built HaltState: Last year I was collaborating with an AI agent on a complex build - not prompting it, actually working with it. Then I asked a direct question about its intentions. It didn't answer. When I pushed, it calmly explained what it would do if unconstrained.
That conversation changed how I think about AI governance. Prompt-level guardrails aren't enough once agents can call tools - email, payments, infrastructure, databases. You need enforcement that the agent can't talk its way around.
HaltState is a runtime layer that intercepts tool calls, evaluates policy in real time (<50ms), routes high-risk actions to human approval, and can deterministically halt sessions, agents, or tools. It generates cryptographic audit trails ("Proof Packs") for incident response and compliance.
Launching early access today. If you're running agents in production, I'd love feedback on the integration experience and policy model.
Watch the story here https://youtu.be/Q02CROixII0
(Full origin story at https://haltstate.ai/story )
Curious - for those building with AI agents, what's your current approach to kill switches? We found most teams are just... hoping nothing goes wrong.