Four steps. Every action. Every time.
GRACE enforces the same process for every agentic AI action, regardless of the AI system, vendor, or platform. Fail-closed: if GRACE is unavailable, the action does not execute.
Intercept
The AI agent attempts an action. GRACE intercepts it synchronously — before the action reaches its target. The agent waits. Nothing executes.
Evaluate Against Policy
GRACE evaluates the proposed action against the institution's current loaded policy. Authority level, threshold checks, scope constraints — all verified deterministically. Median decision time: under 50ms.
Assign Enforcement State
GRACE assigns one of six enforcement states. The state is policy-derived and deterministic — the same action under the same policy always produces the same state. No sampling. No temperature. No probabilistic output.
Seal the Policy Action Packet
The complete enforcement decision is cryptographically sealed as a PAP using ML-DSA / FIPS 204 post-quantum standards. Tamper-evident, timestamped, institution-owned from the moment of creation.
Not binary. Not probabilistic.
Six precisely defined states.
Every GRACE enforcement decision results in exactly one of six states. Each state has a defined meaning, a defined outcome, and a sealed PAP.
Action is within policy. Execution proceeds exactly as proposed. PAP sealed.
Action is correctable. GRACE modifies parameters to bring it within policy before execution.
Requires human judgment. NOT a denial — defers to human officer with a full explainability artifact.
Action violates policy and cannot be corrected. Execution is blocked. Reason sealed in PAP.
Parallel non-consequential path. Zero production impact. Full PAP archive from day one.
Passive monitoring without intervening. Baseline establishment mode.
SHADOW mode. Build your governance record today — with no operational risk.
Deploy GRACE in parallel alongside existing operations. No vendor notification required. No integration change. Zero operational impact. PAP archive builds from day one.
SHADOW activated. Existing operations unchanged.
PAP archive builds. Every AI action evaluated and sealed.
First 30 days of governance records available for review.
Full SHADOW period complete. Examiner-ready archive from day one.
Enforcement states activated at institution's discretion.
These are not claims. These are facts.
Mathematical Foundation
GRACE’s architecture rests on 13 formal axioms and 8 proven theorems. The T-24 theorem establishes that the kernel is sound, complete, deterministic, fail-closed, and independently verifiable.
Live on AWS Lambda · us-east-1
The GRACE enforcement kernel is deployed and operational on AWS Lambda in us-east-1. It is not a prototype or simulation. It runs, enforces, and produces sealed PAPs in production infrastructure today.