Solutions
Where governed execution changes the outcome
The value of deciding before execution scales with how hard the action is to undo. Below are the deployment shapes where that difference is largest, and the industries where it is most often required.
Deployment shapes
Agents with payment or transfer authority
Limits reserved before dispatch, destinations checked against the active policy, and a hold band that produces no effect until a named human releases that exact request.
MCP-connected tools that can act
One tool call reaches one governed action. Altered arguments, replay, forged identity arguments and direct execution attempts all fail rather than executing.
Autonomous back-office workflows
Long-running processes that touch records and systems, where exactly-once execution and recovery across crash windows matter more than throughput.
Regulated determinations
Decision classes where a separately authenticated human must decide, enforced by the policy rather than by convention.
Multi-agent systems
Where 'on whose behalf' is the hard question, identity and principal are recorded separately and delegation is explicit and bounded.
Audit and assurance programmes
Evidence objects an assessor will accept: signed, hash-linked, versioned and checkable offline without the vendor.