Those limits are committed in advance and cryptographically enforced — enabling autonomous execution within clear bounds.
An agent can transfer funds, deploy to production, grant access, or publish externally in seconds.
It will never experience financial loss, regulatory penalties, reputational damage, or operational fallout.
That asymmetry creates new structural risks:
HAP enforces one rule:
Irreversible real-world actions execute only within limits defined by a Decision Owner.
Real-world consequences are not probabilistic — money moves, access changes, data leaves.
When probabilistic systems can trigger irreversible execution, authority must be predefined and bounded.
HAP enforces that boundary.
optimize, coordinate and execute.
define what to optimize, set objectives, accept tradeoffs and bear consequences.
Direction is human.
Execution is machine.
HAP keeps the boundary intact.
Execution is blocked if required decision states are unresolved.
HAP triggers a structured question that forces human direction.
The human confirms the decision the AI must follow.
Only then does the system continue.
No skipping.
No inference.
No silent automation.
The EU AI Act mandates it. ISO 42001 requires it. NIST AI RMF recommends it. But none of them say how.
HAP is the how. It enforces human oversight at the protocol level — not through policies that can be ignored, but through cryptographic gates that cannot be bypassed.
Every AI action requires a human Decision Owner who has articulated the problem, objective, and tradeoffs. No attestation, no execution.
Article 14 mandates effective human oversight for high-risk AI. HAP satisfies this structurally — oversight is not a checkbox, it's the architecture.
Every decision produces a cryptographic trail of authorship, tradeoffs, and commitments — tamper-proof and verifiable.
As AI accelerates, execution becomes cheap.
Unbounded execution becomes dangerous.
Direction must be explicit and enforceable.
When agents can initiate irreversible actions at machine speed, governance cannot rely on assumption or oversight.
HAP makes human direction a structural requirement of execution.
How direction is described, measured, and enforced
How to integrate HAP into your systems
See HAP enforcement in action
Verified infrastructure enforcing compliance
Transparent, federated oversight
HAP turns human direction into the governing layer of intelligent systems.