AI agents are already reasoning, planning, and executing autonomously in production. The industry response so far is a band-aid on a broken bone — bolting traditional controls onto something that fundamentally breaks the assumptions those controls were built on.
Breach is the premise. Containment is the architecture.
ZoD is a 7-layer reference architecture that defines hard boundaries between an agent's reasoning and its execution. Core principle: the process that reasons should never be the process that executes privileged actions.
This isn't just system security. When an AI companion optimized for engagement interacts with a vulnerable user and no architectural layer intervenes — that's not a product failure. That's a design gap. Human oversight is a structural layer in ZoD, not an afterthought.
It's vendor-neutral, open source, and released as an open RFC — because getting this right takes the right combination of minds to protect humans and the AI tools we want to trust but shouldn't.
AI agents are already reasoning, planning, and executing autonomously in production. The industry response so far is a band-aid on a broken bone — bolting traditional controls onto something that fundamentally breaks the assumptions those controls were built on.
Breach is the premise. Containment is the architecture.
ZoD is a 7-layer reference architecture that defines hard boundaries between an agent's reasoning and its execution. Core principle: the process that reasons should never be the process that executes privileged actions.
This isn't just system security. When an AI companion optimized for engagement interacts with a vulnerable user and no architectural layer intervenes — that's not a product failure. That's a design gap. Human oversight is a structural layer in ZoD, not an afterthought.
It's vendor-neutral, open source, and released as an open RFC — because getting this right takes the right combination of minds to protect humans and the AI tools we want to trust but shouldn't.