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Verifiable approvals for agent actions

Every high-stakes action carries a signature you can check later.

  • Identity
  • Workflows
  • Streams
  • NoSQL

The scenario

An agent prepares an order, a payment instruction or a contract change. Before anything happens, it signs the proposal, a person approves it, and downstream systems verify both signatures.

How it works

  1. 1The agent signs the proposed action with its own identity.
  2. 2A workflow pauses for a person or another agent to approve, and the approver signs too.
  3. 3The system that carries out the action verifies both signatures first.

An illustrative scenario, not a customer story.

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Partition

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Status

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  1. Provisioning
  2. Processing
  3. Complete

01The agent signs the proposed action with its own identity.

queued
  • Ahura Identityqueued

    status: queued · 0 / 60 signatures

  • Ahura Workflowsqueued

    status: queued · 0 / 36 steps completed

02A workflow pauses for a person or another agent to approve, and the approver signs too.

queued
  • Ahura Streamsqueued

    status: queued · 0 / 300 events routed

03The system that carries out the action verifies both signatures first.

queued
  • Ahura NoSQLqueued

    status: queued · 0 / 600 records written

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Run time
00:00
0 calls
Size
2.3MB
0.00 ACU used

Services in this partition

  • Identity

    0 calls · 0.00 ACU

  • Workflows

    0 calls · 0.00 ACU

  • Streams

    0 calls · 0.00 ACU

  • NoSQL

    0 calls · 0.00 ACU

Spend by service

Event log

  • Waiting to start.

Why Ahura OS

Why this is better on Ahura OS

The risk with an agent that can act is not a bad idea, it is an unaccountable one. On Ahura OS the agent signs what it proposes with its own identity, a workflow holds the action until a person or another agent approves and signs, and the system that carries it out verifies both signatures first. Private keys are encrypted at rest and used only inside the signing service, never handed to the agent, so an approval cannot be forged. Every signature is logged and emits an event, which gives you an attributable record of who approved what and when.

What each capability replaces

  • Ahura IdentityInstead of building key management and signing services, each agent gets an identity and a signing and verification service whose private keys are never handed to the agent.
  • Ahura WorkflowsInstead of writing retry, timeout and approval plumbing, you declare the steps and the platform guarantees the behaviour and the history.
  • Ahura StreamsInstead of a message broker to run, agents, workflows and your own systems react to events through managed routing.
  • Ahura NoSQLInstead of designing tables and maintaining indexes, you write documents and query them. Indexes are looked after for you.

And on every use case

  • One endpoint, not a stack

    Memory, storage, compute, inference, identity and messaging share one connection, one identity and one bill. The integration work you would normally own disappears.

  • Isolation by construction

    Every agent’s world is a partition. Separation is how the platform is built, not a convention teams must remember to follow.

  • Cost follows use

    Pay per call and per millisecond. Idle agents freeze to archive pricing. There is no capacity to reserve and nothing running unseen.

  • Retention and deletion built in

    Lifetimes, expiry, freezing and destruction are platform features, so your data policy is enforced rather than aspirational.

  • Safe autonomy

    Spending limits, protected signing keys, approval steps and signed actions let agents work unattended without being unaccountable.

  • Ready for audit

    Designed against SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls, with every call metered, recorded and attributable.

Compared

The old way of doing things

Today

Approvals by email or chat, with no proof of who approved what, and no way to tell whether an instruction was altered on its way to the system that acts on it.

Cheaper with Ahura OSNo extra cost: signing and verifying are small calls, and approvals reuse the workflow you already run.
Faster with Ahura OSApproval and action are linked in one flow, so nothing waits on someone to relay a message.
Less risk with Ahura OSPrivate keys are encrypted at rest and never handed to the agent. Every signature is attributable to one agent or approver and recorded.

Data retention is built in

Everything this scenario stores lives in one isolated partition with a lifetime you set. Expired data deletes itself, a paused project freezes to low-cost archive, and a finished one can be destroyed completely. Security and compliance