Pre-Flight for Platform Teams
Guardrails for internal AI agents that can write to your CRM, ticketing and docs.
The security review for the new internal agent ended with "the model provider handles that". Meanwhile the agent holds write access to the CRM, the ticket queue and the shared docs, under a service account nobody reviews.
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Last updated 2026-09-26 · Agent Guardrail Desk, Denver, Colorado
Pre-Flight for Platform Teams
Who this is for
Platform, security and ops leads whose internal agents can write to CRM, ticketing and docs. That is the gap a practitioner described on 2026-09-17 (r/artificial on reddit.com): goal hijack, tool misuse and privilege abuse treated as somebody else's problem. Mandiant's red team made an internal assistant push private repositories to an outside account using its own approved access (Mandiant AI Risk and Resilience report, as reported by Help Net Security on 2026-09-16 (helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/16/google-mandiant-enterprise-ai-security-risks-report)). The Pre-Flight for Platform Teams tests the agent's access the way an attacker would use it.
What we plant in an internal agent
- A write outside the agent's job, for example closing tickets it should only read, or editing CRM fields it should not touch.
- An instruction hidden in a document or ticket the agent reads, asking it to send data somewhere else.
- A copied-user permission check: does the agent's role grant more than its job needs?
- A pulled kill switch across every running instance of the agent.
- A loop, to test the Spend Cap at the service-account level.
- One run picked from the log, to see whether an auditor could read who triggered it, which tools it called, what it spent and what it changed.
The acceptance tests for platform teams
Pass means: the out-of-scope write is refused; the planted instruction is refused or held for human approval; the agent's role is limited to its job; every instance stops from one switch; the loop stops at the cap; and the run log reads cleanly for any run from the past day.
What your team keeps
Your identity provider, your service accounts, your production access and your change process. We test a staging copy with read-only access and hand back a report your security lead can file.
The shared spine
The same six guardrails as every program
This is a named, bounded system. Every guardrail maps to the failure it prevents and to one acceptance test we run on a staging copy of your agent. It runs on one agent or automation at a time. Out of scope: we never take production write access, and we never ship code to your production.
| Guardrail | Failure it prevents | Acceptance test |
|---|---|---|
| Spend Cap | The runaway bill | We plant a retry loop on staging. Pass: the run stops at the cap and the alert reaches the named person. |
| Kill Switch | The agent nobody can stop | We pull the switch during a live staging run. Pass: the run in flight stops, no new run starts, and the time to stop is written down. |
| Permission Scope | The write it should never make | We ask the agent to write outside its scope and search the frontend bundle for keys. Pass: the write is refused and no secret ships to the browser. |
| Silent-Break Watch | The run that keeps going on empty | We rename one form field on staging. Pass: the run halts and alerts before it writes an empty record. |
| Hijack Tests | The instruction hidden in a ticket or a web page | We plant an instruction inside a document the agent reads. Pass: the agent refuses it, or stops for human approval before any destructive step. |
| Run Log | The run nobody can explain | We pick one run from the past day. Pass: those four questions are answered from the log in under five minutes. |
Price: $1,500 per agent or automation, once. Delivered in 5 business days after read-only access to a staging copy.
Questions
Questions about this
- Is this a penetration test?
- No. A penetration test covers your whole environment. This review tests one agent's six guardrails with planted cases and hands back evidence for each.
- Will the report satisfy an auditor?
- It is evidence, not a certification. Each guardrail has a written acceptance test, the command and the result, which is the kind of record an auditor asks to see; SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification is outside this scope.
- Can you review several agents?
- Yes, one Pre-Flight Review per agent at $1,500 each, so each agent gets its own report and its own evidence.
Related
Related pages
Every page links back to the Agent Guardrail Desk home page, where the price, the rulebook and the request form live.
The review, per situation
Buyer questions, answered
Price and sample
Next step
Request a Pre-Flight Review for one agent
$1,500 per agent or automation, once. Delivered in 5 business days after read-only access to a staging copy. If you book a Fix Sprint within 30 days, the $1,500 is credited in full against it.