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The control you're afraid to turn on.

For platform engineering and security — enforcement you can rehearse before you arm it.

A policy that blocks the wrong thing breaks real work, so the enforce switch stays off. You can't see what a rule would catch, which agents it would stop, or what flipping it to enforce would actually cost.

The pain

Enforcement is all-or-nothing.

Without a way to rehearse a policy, every rollout is a gamble between leaving a gap open and breaking a workflow.

Fear of breaking work

Flip a rule to enforce and you might block a legitimate agent mid-task. So the safe choice is to never flip it.

No preview

You can't see which agents a policy would stop or which actions it would gate before it's live.

Counts, not names

“This would affect 6 agents” isn't actionable. You need to know which six, and why.

How enforcement resolves it

Audit, assist, then enforce — try it before you arm it.

1.

Audit

Run the policy in observe-only and see exactly what it would have blocked — named agents, named actions, no impact on live work.

2.

Assist

Escalate to prompts and approval gates, so humans stay in the loop before anything is hard-blocked.

3.

Enforce

Arm it with confidence, knowing the cost of flipping to enforce — coverage, tool-call diversity, and who it touches.

Turn on the control you've been avoiding.

Rehearse the policy, see the names, then arm it.