How Cipher works
Four composable layers, each responsible for one thing. Together they turn ambiguous natural-language intent into auditable, production-grade agent execution.
Intent Layer
Progressive intent refinement classifies requests into archetypes, retrieves workflow templates, and executes 80% of tasks from curated templates — fast, consistent, auditable. Only complex edge cases reach unconstrained planning.
Action Mesh
A governed tool registry with a semantic index. Tool selection happens at planning time with bounded context — agents only see tools relevant to their task. Capability tags enforce security policies before any invocation.
Cipher Runtime
Execution budgets propagate through the full call tree. Failures are typed events, not caught exceptions. Speculative execution can run candidate plans in parallel — committing the first success.
Audit Log
Append-only event store with causal correlation IDs threading from intent to final action. Compliance queries work without engineering help. The same data feeds product analytics and model improvement.