Jochanni Labs · Decision Governance
Consequential AI agent executions require authority before they proceed. DAL-X decides if they should - and writes a tamper-evident authority record for every governed execution.
Enforcement Loop (Illustration)
Agent Output
intercepted at intake
Execution Blocked
default state
Review Queue
human reviewer
Authority Granted
decision recorded
Gate Cleared
token validated
Execution
receipt written
The Problem
Illustrative examples of what agents are trusted to do today. In most deployments the agent logs its decision and the action executes. Nobody authorized it first. A log is not an authority record.
The agent logged the decision. That is not the same as a human authorizing it.
The Solution
DAL-X sits between AI agents and downstream execution systems that enforce DAL-X token verification. Execution is blocked by default. Authority is required before any consequential execution proceeds.
DAL-X
Enforcement Gate
Execution blocked by default
No submission is ever auto-released unless a rule-based or human authority decision explicitly allows it.
Four authority outcomes
Authorize, Human review, Escalate, or Deny. Blocking is the default enforcement state when valid authority is absent. Every outcome writes a tamper-evident authority record before execution status can change.
Token required at the gate
Downstream systems present the DAL-X token at the enforcement gate. No valid token. No execution. The gate applies to execution paths that enforce DAL-X token verification.
Reference Integration
A treasury agent on the Claude Agent SDK and a separate payments hub that verifies DAL-X authority itself. Together they passed the full DAL-X demo on real systems. Other actions bind the fields their target names; a vendor master account change ran that path on real systems against test data.
treasury-payment-agent
Claude Agent SDK · Hono
Jochanni Labs · Decision Governance
DAL-X has run its full demo end to end on real systems: a Claude Agent SDK agent and a payments hub that refuses any payment without DAL-X authority. There is no customer deployment yet. The next step is a paid pilot against a real workflow.