Trust requires boundaries
Qualification is evidence for a decision—not a promise of universal safety.
GhostGate helps reviewers make a more specific, evidence-backed release decision. It does not replace customer security authority or remove uncertainty from future behavior.
01 / Security model
Bind evidence, policy, and authority to the release.
The security model is designed around an exact version, an explicit qualification boundary, a human decision, and evidence that can be verified later.
Defined policies
GhostGate qualifies observed evidence against agreed policies, scenarios, authority, and risk conditions. Findings are contextual, not universal claims.
Human release gates
Customer reviewers decide whether a version proceeds, under what conditions, and when it must be paused, failed back, or requalified.
Version-bound records
Signed attestations, tamper-evident ledgers, evidence hashes, and material-change invalidation preserve the relationship between approval and the reviewed version.
02 / Data handling
The standard pilot is designed for bounded environments.
GhostGate does not require production secrets for the standard pilot. Qualification can operate with sanitized fixtures and controlled environments.
- Minimize inputs: scope only the agent materials, policies, fixtures, and dependencies required for the agreed decision.
- Use sanitized fixtures: replace customer records, credentials, proprietary prompts, and production data where realistic fixtures can answer the qualification question.
- Bound connectivity: use disposable or controlled workspaces when an external system interaction is required.
- Sanitize evidence: remove secrets, tokens, private repository details, private machine paths, credentials, and customer-sensitive content from shareable archives.
- Verify integrity: validate hashes and signatures so evidence modification is detectable.
03 / Human authority
The customer owns the release decision.
GhostGate supports human decision-making. It does not autonomously decide that an agent belongs in production, and it does not remove the need for security, platform, governance, engineering, and business owners to apply their judgment.
A qualified agent may still deserve narrow permissions, approval-bound actions, limited environments, additional monitoring, or a phased release. Qualification is not unrestricted access.
When the version, dependencies, policy, authority, or environment changes materially, reviewers must decide whether prior evidence still applies. GhostGate is designed to invalidate prior approval when it does not.
04 / Current limitations
What GhostGate does not claim.
These limits are part of the product boundary and the pilot qualification conversation.
Qualification limits
- GhostGate does not guarantee universal or future safety.
- GhostGate does not prove malicious intent.
- GhostGate does not replace security teams.
- GhostGate does not autonomously certify compliance.
- Qualification does not mean every agent deserves unrestricted access.
- Release authority remains with the customer.
Current product limits
- GhostGate does not claim customer production validation yet.
- GhostGate does not claim production fleet-scale validation.
- GhostGate does not currently provide managed cloud hosting.
- GhostGate does not currently provide SSO, SAML, SCIM, billing, cloud orchestration, or broad production deployment automation.
- Synthetic capacity is not equivalent to customer production-scale validation.
- Production secrets are not required for the standard pilot.
Review your boundary
Ask the hard questions before defining the pilot.
Use the technical review to examine data exposure, environments, agent authority, evidence handling, and customer release ownership.