Decionis

Shadow Mode

See what your policy would allow, escalate or block.

Evaluate real actions while your workflow continues. Review the results with your team, then enforce one supported boundary when you are ready.

Decionis products

Where will you start in Shadow Mode?

Decionis is the Execution Authority platform. AgentSafe applies it to agent and infrastructure actions. Commerce Gate applies it to commerce. Presence verifies a named human when policy requires approval. All use the same decision and evidence model.

Decionis · Execution Authority

Your policy → ALLOW, ESCALATE or BLOCK → signed decision evidence

Choose a product for Shadow Mode

Presence verifies the person when your policy requires approval for a specific action.

Decision Dossier preserves the verdict, policy context and signed evidence for independent verification.

AgentSafe is open-source. It enforces the hosted Decionis authority’s verdict; it does not decide policy locally. Hosted authority and production Enforcement are commercial services.

What changes in Shadow Mode?

Customers start in Shadow Mode, where Decionis evaluates real actions without blocking them. Teams review which actions would have been allowed, escalated, or blocked, tune policy, and then enable Enforcement Mode for one boundary. The same integration can be returned to Shadow Mode if necessary.

  • Observe decisions on the workflow you connect.
  • Review ALLOW, ESCALATE and BLOCK without stopping actions.
  • Tune policies and identify approval owners.
  • Enable enforcement only after reviewing the results.
How Shadow Mode reports work

Shadow Mode measures policy outcomes. A would-have-blocked result is not a prevented loss or a realized saving.

When are we ready to enforce?

Review representative actions, exceptions and failure cases together. Agree on the policy and approval owners before you enable enforcement.

  1. 1

    Observe

    Connect a supported workflow and collect its shadow decisions.

  2. 2

    Review

    Inspect verdicts, policy versions and incorrectly escalated or blocked actions.

  3. 3

    Prepare

    Confirm approval owners, failure behavior and the return-to-shadow procedure.

  4. 4

    Enforce

    Enable the reviewed policy at one boundary and assess the results before expanding.

Review the rollout and approval process

Common questions

Does Shadow Mode stop actions?

No. Shadow Mode records how your policy would decide while the connected workflow continues. ALLOW, ESCALATE and BLOCK describe evaluation results in this mode. They become enforced outcomes only after you enable enforcement for a supported boundary.

Understanding shadow reports

How long should we stay in Shadow Mode?

There is no fixed duration. Collect enough representative traffic to review routine actions, exceptions and failure cases with the workflow owner. Approve the policy thresholds, escalation owners and rollback procedure before you enforce one boundary.

Policy review and rollout

Which metrics should we review?

Review evaluated actions, the shares that would allow, escalate or block, and the underlying action mix over a stated time window. For a rate, use the same evaluated-action population as the denominator. Treat associated transaction value or exposure separately from prevented loss and realized savings.

Metric definitions and methodology

How do we handle false positives?

Inspect the signed decision and policy version for actions your team considers incorrectly escalated or blocked. Review the rule, approve any change through your policy process, and observe the revised policy before enforcement. Changing a policy does not change the evidence already recorded for earlier decisions.

Policy change controls

Can we return to Shadow Mode?

Yes. Return the connected workflow to Shadow Mode using its documented configuration. Include that procedure in the rollout plan and test it for the specific integration. Shadow Mode resumes observation without blocking; it does not undo actions that have already executed.

Check your integration’s behavior

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