Use Cases for Agent Control Plane
Governance workflows for every team running autonomous agents in production.
Runaway execution + kill switch
What happens: An agent begins looping on a bad decision and escalates spend.
Without control plane: No centralized stop button; teams discover the issue after costs spike.
With Agent Control Plane: Kill switches pause execution and alert responders instantly.
Who cares: Platform engineering
First-time action approval
What happens: A new agent requests production access for the first time.
Without control plane: The request auto-executes without human review.
With Agent Control Plane: Approvals route to the right owner before execution.
Who cares: Security
Budget / spend caps
What happens: Agents spin up data collection jobs across vendors.
Without control plane: Budget overages are discovered after invoices land.
With Agent Control Plane: Hard limits stop work when budgets are hit.
Who cares: Finance
Audit & compliance export
What happens: Audit teams need evidence of automated actions.
Without control plane: Manual reconstruction of logs and approvals.
With Agent Control Plane: Exportable audit trails show intent, approvals, and execution.
Who cares: Compliance
Multi-agent coordination
What happens: Multiple agents collaborate on a launch sequence.
Without control plane: No shared guardrails; one agent overrides another.
With Agent Control Plane: Central policies enforce coordination rules and dependencies.
Who cares: Product operations
Simulation / dry-run
What happens: You need to validate a new workflow before production.
Without control plane: Testing happens in production or not at all.
With Agent Control Plane: Run in safe mode to validate intent before execution.
Who cares: Engineering
Third-party agent sandboxing
What happens: External agents request access to internal tools.
Without control plane: Access is overly broad or blocked entirely.
With Agent Control Plane: Sandboxed permissions ensure least privilege.
Who cares: IT
Incident response + postmortems
What happens: An agent misconfigures infrastructure.
Without control plane: Teams scramble to understand the chain of events.
With Agent Control Plane: Audit replay provides timeline and root cause data.
Who cares: Reliability
Progressive autonomy ladder
What happens: You want to graduate agents from supervised to autonomous.
Without control plane: No safe way to increase autonomy over time.
With Agent Control Plane: Policy tiers unlock more autonomy as confidence grows.
Who cares: AI governance
RBAC across teams
What happens: Different teams require different levels of access.
Without control plane: Permissions are global and error-prone.
With Agent Control Plane: Role-based policies scope access by team and workflow.
Who cares: Security & IT