If you can articulate it, you can gate it. Nothing consequential executes until a human key opens the gate, and every opening is recorded. No license fee and no card to start. You pay three cents only when a gate actually opens.
You may know this as the Cooren Agentic Firewall. Same gate, same invariant. Authority Firewall is the general name, because the boundary was never only about AI. It gates any actor that proposes a consequential action: an agent, a service, a system.
The Authority Firewall sits at the boundary where something decided becomes something done. It is the point where a proposal crosses from the digital side into a real-world action. On that boundary it holds one rule: default-off. Nothing crosses until a human with an authenticated key opens it, and every crossing is written to a tamper-evident record.
The gate is a policy surface you tune. It is not a bottleneck. Set it where your risk actually is.
Open the dial too far and you approve every AI agent's confidently wrong proposal. The confident, well-formed, authenticated request is exactly the one that slips through.
Clamp it down too hard and you're signing off on every paperclip requisition. The dial exists so you don't have to live at either extreme.
No, friend. It's a gate against, and not just against AI. Against systems. Against services. You can even stand it up as a traditional firewall. The thing crossing the boundary is never the thing guarding it.
Gate the tool-call, the deploy, the spend, the egress: the moment an agent's conclusion would become an action.
A syscall, a service, a scheduled job. Any actor proposing a consequential change answers to the same gate.
Set it at the network boundary and it's a firewall in the oldest sense: default-off, opened by authority, everything logged.
Download the appliance, install it on your own hardware, hold your own keys. There is no license fee and no card to start. You pay $0.03 only when a human key opens a gate. Nothing hidden.
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