Proofable or a policy engine for agent authorization

It depends

Keep your policy engine if you already express your rules in it, one team owns both the rules and every caller, and a log inside your infrastructure is enough evidence. Add Proofable when the agent runs somewhere you do not own, when more than one party has to rely on the outcome, or when the evidence has to travel with the action. A policy engine decides; Proofable can supply the portable record that the decision was made under current permission. Teams that already have a policy engine usually keep it and add Proofable at the boundary, rather than replacing it.

What each one answers

Question	Policy engine	Proofable
Is this action allowed by our rules?	Yes, that is its purpose	Yes, for the agent’s identity, limits and current permission
Who is the agent and who owns it?	Only if you modelled it there	Part of the agent record
Does the decision survive leaving your system?	Your log, your infrastructure	A proof another party can check
Can the permission expire or be revoked?	If you build that	Built in, with an end date and revoke
Does a refused action stop the call?	Depends on your integration	The caller stops when the decision is not allowed

Where they fit together

A policy engine is the right owner of your own rules. Proofable does not ask you to move them. It checks the agent’s limits at the action boundary and records the result, so the same decision can be appraised by a system that never saw your engine.

import { evaluateRuntimeAction } from '@proofable/sdk/runtime-mount';

const decision = evaluateRuntimeAction(mount, 'publish_report', { irreversible: true });
if (!decision.allowed) throw new Error(`${decision.code}: ${decision.message}`);

Your engine can still run before or after this check. Standards and interoperability lists the authorization and attestation layers Proofable works beside, including AuthZEN and AARM.

Check once and reuse the result.

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Proofable or a policy engine for agent authorization

Which is better for authorizing an AI agent, a policy engine or Proofable?

It depends

What each one answers

Where they fit together

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Control agent actions

Reuse verification

Prove what happened

Standards

​Which is better for authorizing an AI agent, a policy engine or Proofable?

​It depends

​What each one answers

​Where they fit together

​Next

Control agent actions

Reuse verification

Prove what happened

Standards

Which is better for authorizing an AI agent, a policy engine or Proofable?

It depends

What each one answers

Where they fit together

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