Concept
Because at volume, approving stops being a decision. Anthropic measured that Claude Code users approve 93% of permission prompts and shipped classifiers to cut permission fatigue; a separate 40,000-run study found people missed 1 in 3 genuine threats while clicking through. That leaves two bad defaults — approve everything by hand and get nothing done, or skip permissions entirely and hope. Policy-based gating is the third: a deterministic control plane answers on the common path, and a named person is pulled in only when the rules require one, so the approvals someone does see are rare enough to deserve attention.
Because at volume, approving stops being a decision. Anthropic measured that Claude Code users approve 93% of permission prompts and shipped classifiers to cut permission fatigue; a separate 40,000-run study found people missed 1 in 3 genuine threats while clicking through. That leaves two bad defaults — approve everything by hand and get nothing done, or skip permissions entirely and hope. Policy-based gating is the third: a deterministic control plane answers on the common path, and a named person is pulled in only when the rules require one, so the approvals someone does see are rare enough to deserve attention.
An agent calls a tool that reaches a network destination, uploads a file, or posts data to a third party.
8 executable policies
An agent retrieves documents into context, or writes what it learned into durable memory.
6 executable policies
A command, script, or agent drops a table, deletes a bucket, or tears down infrastructure.
3 executable policies
Decionis is the deterministic decision layer between intent and execution. This concept is one way in; the architecture behind it is the same in every case.