HaltState AI: Introduction to HaltState

HaltState is the industry-leading Sentinel Bridge for AI agent governance. As autonomous agents become more capable, the need for robust, verifiable, and low-latency governance becomes critical.

HaltState provides the security layer that stands between your AI agents and your sensitive business systems.

Why HaltState?

• Verifiable Compliance: Meet SB-53 (California) and TFAIA (Federal) requirements out of the box.
• Ultra-Low Latency: Policy evaluation in under 50ms ensures your agents remain responsive.
• Emergency Controls: Global, tenant, and agent-level kill switches for instant risk mitigation.
• Cryptographic Audit: Every decision is signed and immutable, ready for regulatory review.

Key Concepts

The Sentinel Loop

The HaltState Sentinel Loop intercepts agent "intent" before it executes on a target system.

Policies

Policies are granular rules defined in the HaltState dashboard that specify what actions are allowed, denied, or require human approval.

Proof Packs

Proof Packs are cryptographically signed JSON exports containing the full audit history of agent decisions.

The Guard Pattern

The guard() context manager is the core SDK pattern - it handles the full approval lifecycle automatically, including process restarts via idempotency keys.