The Machine — decide what your AI agent is allowed to do
The Machine is a free browser tool for specifying the boundaries of an autonomous
AI agent. You map the actions the agent can take, score each one for risk and
reversibility, define the rollback path and the conditions that should stop the
loop, then export the result.
What it produces
- A written governance specification across 17 stages, from the objective contract through to the evidence required before autonomy is increased.
- An executable Open Policy Agent (Rego) policy generated from your action registry. It denies by default: an action that is not in the registry is refused rather than permitted. Tests are included.
- YAML specifications and a re-importable JSON document.
Positions it takes
- Systems start at autonomy level A0 or A1. Acting on production before observing it is how autonomy incidents happen.
- An action's ceiling is set by its blast radius, not by ambition.
- Irreversible actions require human approval in the generated policy, and an action with no rollback path is recorded as a gap rather than papered over.
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