Action class: Database / record write
How this side effect is governed
Default policy. Allow only with a connector contract and policy envelope.
Required evidence. Before/after state hash, receipt, rollback semantics.
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Turn the security review into a proof you can hand over
Ship AI agent features without failing tenant security reviews. Writes to tenant data get a per-tenant policy verdict and a receipt your customer can verify.
The problem
The action is the risk, not the model.
When your AI feature can write to tenant data, your customer’s security review becomes your sales blocker. They need to see the boundary and the evidence, per tenant.
Granting this agent access means it can change tenant data and act inside customer accounts. Each of those is a side effect someone has to answer for.
What HELM does
A verdict before the side effect runs.
HELM checks the proposed action against policy before any effect runs, then records a signed receipt. Here is one path for b2b saas platforms with ai agents.
Agent proposes
Agent edits a record in the wrong tenant scope
HELM checks policy
Checks tenant scope and policy before the write
Verdict
DENY
Proof
Tenant-scoped denial receipt + EvidencePack
Proof you can hand to a reviewer
Evidence that survives outside the dashboard.
Each governed action leaves a record your security reviewer can verify offline.
- Tenant-action EvidencePack
- Per-tenant policy hash
- Security-review proof sample
Questions
What reviewers ask first.
Can the agent act without approval?
Not for this action class. HELM checks the proposed action against policy before any side effect runs. For database / record write the default is "Allow only with a connector contract and policy envelope", so anything unknown or unapproved stops by default.
What evidence do I show a security reviewer?
Every decision records before/after state hash, receipt, rollback semantics. You hand the reviewer the signed receipt and EvidencePack, which they verify offline without access to your dashboard.
Does this slow the agent down?
The check sits in the action path, not the conversation. Low-risk actions that policy already permits proceed; only consequential side effects pause for a verdict or an approver.
Keep reading
Follow the proof path.
Hand your reviewer proof, not promises.
Bring one database / record write action to the boundary and see the verdict and the receipt.