Breakout controls

Runtime controls that keep an agent aligned to its mission: containing, redirecting, or stopping it when it veers off course, before the action lands.

Learn more: AI Runtime Security

Part of the Agent Control Fabric: Highflame's identity, policy, and enforcement substrate for AI agents.

Glossary Entries

Cascade revocation

Revoking a parent credential instantly invalidates everything it delegated, collapsing the affected delegation tree rather than waiting for tokens to expire.
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Cedar

An open, formally analyzable policy language. Highflame authors authorization policy in Cedar and enforces the same policy at every boundary an agent crosses.
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CIBA

Client-Initiated Backchannel Authentication: an out-of-band flow that pauses a sensitive agent action for explicit, attributable human approval.
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Code agent

Autonomous software that reads code, runs commands, calls tools, and changes systems on a developer's behalf. Securing one means controlling what it can access while it runs, and proving afterward what it did.
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Confused deputy

An attack where a low-privilege agent tricks a higher-privilege one into acting on its behalf. Scope attenuation prevents it: a sub-agent provably cannot exceed its parent's authority.
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Delegated authority

The model where an agent acts on behalf of a human or another agent, holding strictly less authority than the principal that authorized it, and provably distinct from that principal.
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