GOVERNANCE
A run you can show to someone who was not there.
E31 Agency treats every run as something your own team, your reviewer, or your auditor may have to read later. Policy, a person in the path, a bound on how far it may go, and a record that keeps the order.
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Policy sees the step before it runs
Before a step starts, and after it finishes, policy can allow it, flag it, or stop the run. The decision is written into the run, so a later reader sees why a step happened or why it did not. Steps that must be checked wait if the policy service itself cannot be reached. They do not skip the check because the checker was down.
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A person can be required, by name of role
Some outcomes should not complete on the model alone: sending, spending, changing a record, releasing something outside the appliance. You mark that step. The run waits, a reviewer in the required role sees the draft and the context, and the run continues or ends on that decision. The wait survives a restart. The approval names the person.
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The run has a length
An agent that can call tools can also loop. You set how many steps a run may take, how long it may run, and how many outside calls it may make. When it crosses a limit, it stops, and the record names the limit. Those numbers belong to the published version.
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The record is the run, in order
What you can open afterward is the sequence itself. The input. Each step. The model output. The passages used. The tool call and what came back. The policy decision. The person who approved, when a person had to. A reviewer can watch this while it is happening. Someone who was not in the room can read it the next day and reconstruct what happened without asking the operator to remember.
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The platform's own changes are attributable
Publishing a version, deploying it, rolling it back, changing who may approve, and adding a tool are actions on the platform, and they are logged with who took them. The log is kept so that an alteration of the log is evident. The point of governance is that both the run and the change to the agent can be shown.