CAIN-42 MCPGateAGENTIC AI 75 · #37
Enterprise agent execution with governance
IBM and Microsoft announced Imagine Enterprise for building, running and governing industry-specific agents.
Last reviewed 2026-11-11
Agentic AI 75 / #37
2026 status: Platform announcement · Category: Enterprise platform
The 2026 development
IBM and Microsoft announced Imagine Enterprise for building, running and governing industry-specific agents.
The governance gap
Governance bolted onto a runtime after the fact sees only logs. It cannot stop the action it is reviewing, and it cannot prove the policy version that was in force.
Where CAIN-42 fits: Moat 7 — Autonomous Trust Control Loop
Core question: Can verified experience change future trust? Monitor, detect, contain, recover, and re-authorise from observed outcomes.
Put governance in the execution path: policy version, authority and risk are evaluated before the action, and the decision is signed before the tool runs. Dashboards consume that record; they do not replace it.
How the wiring works
- Pin a policy revision to the tenant and the action.
- Evaluate authority, policy and risk before execution.
- Refuse to run when the policy engine is unavailable.
- Emit a signed decision that names the policy revision.
What is real today
LIVE A public route in this deployment exercises this mechanism today, within its stated scope.
CAIN's decision path is real and fail-closed. This is not IBM or Microsoft Imagine Enterprise and no partnership is claimed.
| Component in this repository | What the module says it is |
|---|---|
cain/kernel.py | CAIN Trust Fabric - Kernel Interface & High-Level Execution Substrate |
cain/opa.py | CAIN Trust Fabric - OPA / Rego Policy Bridge & Transpiler (Phase 3) |
cain/cain_policy_compiler.py | CAIN Policy-as-Code Compiler & Semantic Context Reducer (Module M4 — Evolution 2). |
cain/worm_export.py | CAIN Trust Fabric - tamper-evident WORM Causal Evidence Fabric (Phase 4) |
Descriptions are the first line of each module's own docstring, read without importing it. A module path is a pointer into this repository, not a hosted endpoint. Its existence is checked by the test suite; its status for this use is the label above.
Check it yourself
- Fire a live governed decision
/fabric/try - Fire a live decision through the CAIN-42 pipeline
/fabric/try— the same enforcement path every product sits behind.
Commercial package
| Offer | Enterprise Execution Governance |
|---|---|
| Buyer | Enterprise architecture and governance teams |
| Price (proposal) | $5,000–$12,000 per review; appliance from $50k/yr |
| Bundle | Runtime Containment & Evidence — Contain first, then prove what happened. |
| Operator stream | Stream 2 of the 10-stream operator playbook |
SOC, incident response, compliance, enterprise IT is the bundle buyer. The entry offer for this bundle is Runtime containment review; signed evidence pack; the range is $2,500–$5,000 per review; $2,000–$10,000 per evidence pack. A price on this page is a proposal, not a validated rate, and no customer is claimed.
Buy this as a product or service
CAIN-A75-037 — Enterprise Execution Governance PILOT
A bounded pilot report: up to five scenarios, the relevant library engine or analysis, a written result and the stated limits. Engineering time is quoted per pilot.
Kind: Assessment · Price (proposal): $5,000–$12,000 per review; appliance from $50k/yr · Lead time: 10 business days.
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What this page does not claim
What this page is not. CAIN-42 is not affiliated with, endorsed by, integrated into, or shipped with the organisation named in the 2026 item. The item is public context; the page describes how CAIN-42 would govern that class of capability. No page here claims a customer, a partnership, a certification, a patent, or a production integration. Prices are proposals. Built by a three-person team.