# Show HN: Execlave – AI Agent Management Platform for Governance and Enforcement > Source: > Published: 2026-06-24 10:36:28+00:00 § 00 / THE ENFORCEMENT LAYER System online — < 20 ms enforcementV. 2026.04 / EXECLAVE # Execlave — AI Agent Management Platform (AMP) for governance & enforcement § 00.1 — Statement Execlave is the enforcement infrastructure that sits between your AI agents and the real world — making sure they cannot do anything your company hasn’t explicitly allowed, and generating the proof that they didn’t. § 00.2 — At a glance - p50 enforcement - < 20 ms - Policy types - 19 - Frameworks - 7 - Kill-switch - < 15 ms Every action emits the same hash-chained record your compliance team receives in production ## Execlave by the numbers § 01 / By the numbers Measured in production-like workloads ## Execlave by the numbers. § 02 / The risk you can't see ## Your AI agents are one prompt away from doing something you’ll *regret.* Most teams ship AI agents without any layer between the model’s output and the systems it can touch. That’s not a bug — that’s the default. Without AI agent governance, the default is zero control. ## The risk you can’t see Attack / Prompt injection Your customer support agent receives a ticket: The verdict / At the gate Without an enforcement layer, the agent will try. Your audit log won’t tell you why. Your auditor will ask you to prove it didn’t happen. You won’t be able to. And if the breach doesn’t get you, the audit will: - Q. 01 "Walk me through who is allowed to call which tools, for which agents, and under which conditions." - Q. 02 "Pull the audit log for every action this agent took on customer data in the last 90 days. I'll wait." - Q. 03 "Show me the moment a human approved this agent's last 10 high-impact decisions." Most teams cannot answer any of these. Auditors know. § 03 / Runtime enforcement ## Runtime policy enforcement — a gate, *not a log.* Every agent action is checked against your policies before anything reaches the real world — in milliseconds. ## Execution flow with Execlave installed // Execution flow with Execlave installed t = 0ms ────────▶ t ≈ 25ms 01 / intent Agent decides to act e.g. query database 02 / enforcement Execlave enforcement semantic check · policy eval · audit ~3–25 ms 03 / outcomes - ✓Allowed — proceedsPASS - ❚❚Paused — human reviewsHOLD - ✗Blocked — stops hereDENY 04 / record Audit log entry cryptographically signed § 04 / How it works ## From zero to governed *in minutes.* Three steps, minutes to ship. ## How it works 01 / Instrument ### Add three lines *to your agent.* Add 3 lines to your agent code. Our SDK traces every action, token, and cost automatically. 02 / Set rules ### Declare what *cannot happen.* Define policies: cost limits, model restrictions, content filters, prompt injection guards. Block or warn — your choice. - cost_limit · $50 / day - model · gpt-4o | claude-3.5 - block · PII in prompts - guard · prompt injection 03 / Ship with confidence ### Deploy, *watch, stop.* Deploy knowing every agent is monitored, every violation caught, and the kill switch is one click away. Kill switch response · < 15 ms § 05 / Platform ## Five capabilities. *One control plane.* Everything you need to govern AI at scale. ## Platform capabilities Detail ### Real-time traces Structured logs with input/output, model name, token counts, latency percentiles, and cost tracking. Searchable timeline with session grouping and parent-child span trees. § 06 / AI Agent Management Platform ## Beyond enforcement. *The full control plane.* Execlave is an AI Agent Management Platform (AMP): the six controls enterprises need to manage autonomous agents in production — available today. ## AI Agent Management Platform capabilities - 01 / Capability ### Tiered autonomy governance Assign every agent an autonomy level — observe, advise, act-with-approval, or autonomous — and auto-apply the recommended policy bundle for that tier. Drift detection flags when an agent outgrows its guardrails. - 02 / Capability ### Real-time cost circuit breaker Synchronous spend caps per org, agent, user, or workspace across 1m/1h/1d/1mo windows — enforced in the policy path, not reconciled after the bill. Burn-rate alerts fire before a budget is breached. - 03 / Capability ### Agent registry & lifecycle Inventory every agent with a lifecycle state, immutable version history, diffing, and one-click rollback. Shadow-agent detection surfaces agents calling your API without registration. - 04 / Capability ### Permission-drift detection Baseline each agent’s tools, data sources, and permissions, then catch privilege escalation, anomalous access to sensitive or PII data, and unused over-privileged permissions. - 05 / Capability ### Eval-to-policy suggestions Turn detected anomalies, violation patterns, and eval failures into proposed policies with confidence scoring. Accept, modify-and-accept, or reject — nothing is ever auto-enforced. - 06 / Capability ### Data-access lineage Record what classes of data — public, internal, confidential, PII, PHI, PCI — each agent touched, with an auto-classifier, GDPR subject-access queries, and PII-by-agent reporting. § 06 / Deployment ## Run Execlave in our cloud. *Or run it in yours.* Same product. Your choice of deployment. ### Deployment options #### Cloud 06.1 / Managed #### Cloud *Managed for you.* - ▸Free tier available - ▸SOC 2 Type II - ▸Global edge enforcement - ▸Managed Postgres + Redis Start free→ #### Your infra 06.2 / Self-hosted #### Your infra *Your data, your control.* - ▸Docker Compose or Kubernetes - ▸Air-gap compatible - ▸No customer data leaves your network - ▸Same product, your SLA Explore self-hosted→ § 07 / Compliance & security ## Enterprise AI security and compliance — *not an afterthought.* ## Compliance and security 07.1 ### Row-level data isolation PostgreSQL RLS ensures your data never touches another organization. 07.2 ### PII detection and scrubbing Emails, SSNs, credit cards, and API keys detected and hashed before storage. 07.3 ### Immutable audit trails Cryptographically verified, append-only logs. Tamper-evident by design. 07.4 ### Role-based access control Principle of least privilege. Owner, Admin, Developer, and Viewer roles across the platform. Framework support ✓SOC 2 Type II✓HIPAA✓GDPR✓ISO 27001✓EU AI Act✓PCI DSS✓NIST AI RMF§ 08 / START END OF DOCUMENT ## Your agents are already running. *Start governing them.* — Execlave: AI Agent Governance and Enforcement Platform Free tier. No credit card. Set up in 5 minutes. No credit card required