Most current 'Agent Safety' layers rely on LLM-based supervisors (a 'Judge' agent). The flaw is that you're using a probabilistic tool to secure another probabilistic tool. If the supervisor hallucinations, the system fails.
IBA moves the enforcement into the cryptographic handshake. By hashing the 'Intent' at the moment of human initiation and requiring the agent to generate a 'Proof of Alignment' payload for every tool-call, we’re creating a deterministic gate.
Even if an agent has a valid API key for a database, if the proposed SQL query doesn’t mathematically derive from the signed Intent Hash, the gateway terminates the connection before the DB is even touched.
I’m particularly interested in how this community views the latency trade-off. We’re seeing sub-5ms overhead on the validation, which seems negligible for high-stakes enterprise workflows (Finance/Healthcare), but I'm curious if anyone sees a path to making this 'zero-knowledge' so the gateway doesn't even need to see the raw intent data?"
"A bit more context on why I took this approach:
Most current 'Agent Safety' layers rely on LLM-based supervisors (a 'Judge' agent). The flaw is that you're using a probabilistic tool to secure another probabilistic tool. If the supervisor hallucinations, the system fails.
IBA moves the enforcement into the cryptographic handshake. By hashing the 'Intent' at the moment of human initiation and requiring the agent to generate a 'Proof of Alignment' payload for every tool-call, we’re creating a deterministic gate.
Even if an agent has a valid API key for a database, if the proposed SQL query doesn’t mathematically derive from the signed Intent Hash, the gateway terminates the connection before the DB is even touched.
I’m particularly interested in how this community views the latency trade-off. We’re seeing sub-5ms overhead on the validation, which seems negligible for high-stakes enterprise workflows (Finance/Healthcare), but I'm curious if anyone sees a path to making this 'zero-knowledge' so the gateway doesn't even need to see the raw intent data?"