The independent authority that determines whether an AI-generated change has earned the right to proceed.
AI agents now write code and reshape live infrastructure at machine speed. IBE is the checkpoint they can’t talk their way past: every change is measured against eight safety checks and is proven — or refused — before it can ship. Automatic, explainable, and impossible to rubber-stamp.
Every AI change has to pass all eight safety checks. One failure and it’s stopped — automatically, every time.
Anything unclear, unsafe, or unauthorized is blocked — and comes back with a signed, plain-English reason you can act on.
The verdict is a fixed, formally-verified rule. It can’t be persuaded, rushed, or rubber-stamped — only satisfied.
A change ships only if every check passes. A single failure means it’s refused — no exceptions, no overrides. The same change always gets the same answer. Flip the eight checks below and watch the verdict change in real time.
One path, no shortcuts. Every proposed change runs the same ten steps — from the original request to a signed verdict — and each step leaves tamper-proof evidence behind. Only after all of it does IBE decide.
Three real AI proposals — a broken rate limiter, code that quietly edits the wrong file, and infrastructure that would expose sensitive data. IBE caught and refused all three, each with a signed receipt you can re-verify. Open any one to see exactly why.
The decision isn’t a judgment call — it’s math. The rules that grant permission and allow promotion are written as formal specifications and machine-checked, so we can prove the unsafe shortcuts simply can’t happen.
| Capability lifecycle | 28 states · safe |
| Capability · fault injected | 44 states · caught |
| Promotion lifecycle | 34 states · safe |
| Promotion · fault injected | 46 states · caught |
A working, coherent, production-oriented platform — not a finished product. It is deliberately explicit about what is real versus planned, and makes no false security or certification claims.
| IBE doctrine proof | Implemented |
| Generic assurance kernel | Implemented |
| Causal runtime assurance | Implemented |
| Capability security · single-process | Implemented |
| MBSE integration | Partial |
| Supply-chain provenance | Partial |
| Compliance evidence · OSCAL / 800-171 | Partial |
| Production SaaS / PaaS readiness | Research |