Use Case

AI on Critical Systems

Adaptive lets AI agents operate against critical production systems — databases, internal tools, and business applications — without standing credentials. JIT access, per-task scopes, full audit. You write the prompts and workflows; Adaptive provides the harness, tools, MCP registry, networking, and guardrails.

harness·h-9342

Adaptive

$adaptive harness h-9342

↳ session opened

✻Welcome to Claude Code

>process refund for order #ORD-58219

⏺ creds: billing-agent · prod · ttl 15m

⏺ scope: tenant=acme · order=58219 · row-level

⏺ tools: orders-api, ledger-write, notify

⏺ refund $184.20 · ledger entry queued

× drop on orders blocked · destructive op

! mass-update flagged · awaiting approval

audit: signed · session replay-ready

jit: ttl 15m

scope: per-task

guardrails: on

The problem

AI agents that touch revenue-impacting systems — order databases, billing platforms, identity stores, internal admin tools — need real access to be useful. But granting persistent credentials to those systems means a single compromised or misbehaving agent can read, modify, or exfiltrate the data that runs the business.

88%

of organizations grant AI agents access to production data using shared, long-lived service accounts

$5.2M

average cost of a breach involving compromised AI automation credentials on critical systems

61%

of teams cannot attribute a specific production change to the AI agent and prompt that triggered it

Critical systems weren't designed for non-human callers operating at agent speed. Static credentials, broad roles, and missing per-call audit make it impossible to enforce least privilege or replay what an agent did when something goes wrong.

The solution

Per-task scoped access with just-in-time credentials for agents on critical systems

Adaptive provides the harness, tools, MCP registry, networking, and guardrails — JIT credentials scoped to the specific task, dataset, or tenant the agent is working on. You provide the prompts and workflows. Every call to a critical system runs inside Exo policy envelope, with full session capture and reviewable audit.

Benefits

How Adaptive helps

Per-Task Scoping

Bind each agent session to the task, tenant, or record it is meant to act on. Agents cannot read or write outside the scope the workflow declared.

Write the prompts and workflows that drive the agent. Exo enforces scoping rules that map task metadata to row-level and resource-level policies before any call reaches the critical system.

JIT Credentials Per Session

Issue short-lived credentials for each session against databases, internal APIs, and SaaS admin endpoints. Credentials expire when the task is done — nothing persists on the agent.

Configure credential TTLs and auto-revocation per system and sensitivity tier. Operators rotate or pull credentials in one place, not across every agent.

Guardrails for Irreversible Actions

Block or require approval for destructive operations — drops, deletes, mass updates, exports — before they hit a critical system. Soft-fail with a clear reason instead of executing silently.

Define guardrails per resource and per operation. High-risk actions route to a human reviewer; low-risk reads pass through automatically.

Full Session Audit

Every call an agent makes to a critical system is recorded with the prompt, the context, the credential identity, and the result. Replay any session to answer who did what and why.

Stream session events into your SIEM or compliance platform. Tie each production change back to the agent, prompt, and triggering event that produced it.