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March 18, 2026·Alex Floyd

Introducing the Agent Review: Human Sign-Off for Every Agent

Deploying an AI agent should require the same rigor as deploying production code — maybe more. The Agent Review is Clevername's answer to the question: "Who approved this agent, and what exactly did they approve?"

How It Works

The Agent Review is a human approval board that gates every agent deployment. Before an agent moves from draft to active, it goes through a 27-question security intake covering six critical areas: scope, tools, data access, autonomy level, compliance requirements, and integration bindings.

The answers compile into a guardrail profile — a machine-readable policy that follows the agent through every session.

Continuous Validation

Approval isn't a one-time event. Clevername re-validates the agent's behavior against its review-approved profile at runtime. If an agent drifts — requesting tools it wasn't approved for, accessing data outside its scope, or exceeding its autonomy level — enforcement kicks in immediately.

The guardrail profile generated during review travels with the agent. Every session loads it. Every action is checked against it. The version hash is re-validated at activation — if the agent definition drifts from its reviewed state, the session is blocked until re-submission. Governance doesn't decay.