Execution control / secure agent infrastructure

Agents should act.
Boundaries should decide.

Apollo Agent is being designed as a runtime where autonomous work can move quickly without outrunning identity, permissions, isolation or evidence.

Execution bandA task advances only when each control stage returns a named decision.
01

Resolve identity

Bind every task to an explicit actor and execution context.

clear
02

Evaluate policy

Translate declared intent into a narrow, reviewable permission set.

clear
03

Isolate execution

Run tools and workloads inside a purpose-built boundary.

clear
04

Return evidence

Preserve decisions, actions and outcomes as one audit path.

sealed
actor_07policy / allowruntime / isolatedtrace_90a

Autonomy is not the absence of control.

It is the ability to move inside a clear contract.

A / Operating model

One task.
Four explicit boundaries.

A control path for turning agent intent into constrained, observable execution, with authorization and evidence carried through the full task lifecycle.

  1. 01

    Resolve identity

    Bind every task to an explicit actor and execution context.

    runtime primitive
  2. 02

    Evaluate policy

    Translate declared intent into a narrow, reviewable permission set.

    runtime primitive
  3. 03

    Isolate execution

    Run tools and workloads inside a purpose-built boundary.

    runtime primitive
  4. 04

    Return evidence

    Preserve decisions, actions and outcomes as one audit path.

    runtime primitive

B / Permission protocol

The permission should be smaller than the task.

Each request is intended to receive only the identity, resource boundary, time window and action scope it needs - no ambient authority by default.

policy / illustrativescoped allow
actor
research-agent / run 07
resource
source-repository / read
boundary
isolated-task / no egress
duration
06 minutes / one use
evidence
decision + action trace
One policy record carries actor, scope, duration, boundary and evidence requirements together.

C / System principles

Build the boundary into the runtime.

01

Identity before action

Every execution begins with a named actor, workload and authority source.

02

Isolation by construction

The runtime treats containment as a primitive, not an afterthought.

03

Evidence as output

A successful task should return both a result and an intelligible execution record.

D / Operating principle

Move fast.
Keep the evidence.

Apollo Agent is focused on a simple standard for autonomous execution: every action should have a named identity, a narrow permission, an isolated runtime and a durable trace.