Use Case

Autonomous Incident Response

Adaptive issues break-glass identities to agents responding to incidents — time-boxed privilege, reviewer sign-off, audit-ready transcripts. You write the prompts and workflows; Adaptive provides the harness, tools, MCP registry, networking, and guardrails.

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Adaptive

$adaptive harness h-4421

↳ session opened

harness $ir join --incident=INC-4421

✓ creds: oncall@acme (ttl 30m)

→ tailing: api-gateway, auth-svc

! 412 401s in 5m on /login

✓ mitigation: rate-limit applied

teardown: revoked on close

harness $

ttl: 30m

session: recorded

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The problem

During active incidents, response speed is critical. AI agents can accelerate investigation and containment, but incident response requires elevated privileges — access to production systems, network controls, and security tooling. Granting these privileges to agents without guardrails is extremely dangerous during the most high-pressure moments.

$4.88M

average cost of a data breach — faster incident response with proper controls directly reduces impact

73min

average time saved per incident when AI agents assist with initial triage and evidence collection

52%

of incident response actions are undocumented, creating compliance gaps and hindering post-incident review

Incident response is the highest-risk context for agent access. The urgency of active incidents pressures teams to grant broad access quickly, but without time-boxing and audit controls, this emergency access often persists long after the incident is resolved.

The solution

Time-boxed break-glass access with reviewer sign-off for incident response agents

Adaptive provides the harness, tools, MCP registry, networking, and guardrails — break-glass identities with time-boxed elevated privileges, reviewer sign-off on every action, and audit-ready transcripts for post-incident review. You provide the prompts and workflows. The agent runs your response logic inside Exo policy envelope, never outside it.

Benefits

How Adaptive helps

Break-Glass Identities

Create pre-defined incident response identities with elevated privileges that activate only during declared incidents. Access is automatically revoked when the incident is resolved.

Write the prompts and workflows that drive the agent. Define break-glass roles per incident severity in Exo — each role grants specific privileges with automatic expiration tied to incident lifecycle.

Time-Boxed Privilege

All incident response access is time-boxed with hard TTLs. Even if an incident drags on, credentials rotate and require re-authorization at defined intervals.

Configure TTLs per privilege level — critical system access expires in minutes, while read-only log access can persist for the incident duration.

Reviewer Sign-Off

Elevated actions require sign-off from an on-call reviewer before execution. The agent proposes actions with full context; the reviewer approves or modifies.

Route approval requests to the on-call SOC analyst via Slack, PagerDuty, or your existing incident management workflow.

Audit-Ready Transcripts

Every incident response session produces a complete, signed transcript — actions taken, approvals received, evidence collected, and outcomes achieved.

Export transcripts directly to your compliance and post-incident review tools. Meet SOC 2, HIPAA, and regulatory audit requirements automatically.