PolicyLayer Connect your agent
The system of record for AI agent authority

Never answer your agent twice.

Your agent asks. The right person answers in Slack. Approval turns that answer into versioned policy for every agent you run.

Works with the agents you already run Claude Code Claude Code Codex Codex Cursor Cursor GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot VS Code VS Code Gemini Gemini
01 / How it works

What the playbook misses reaches a person.

PolicyLayer holds your company’s authorised playbooks; agents reach them over MCP. Uncovered decisions route to their owner in Slack. The answer resolves the case and, once approved, becomes policy for every agent.

How one answer becomes policy Case PL-0051  Complete
01 Agent asks
Should we waive this customer’s £15 late fee?

The question goes to Customer Operations. The agent keeps working.

02 Owner answers
“Yes. Waive fees caused by a confirmed service outage.”

In Slack · 2 min

03 Rule proposed
Waive late fees up to £15 when caused by a confirmed service outage.
Edit Approve rule ↗
04 Every agent gets it
No one answers this question again.

Playbook v12 · signed

02 / Evidence · Consumer fintech

Seven rules. Half as many cases needed a person.

Across more than 50 real support cases, repeated human decisions became seven approved rules. These are results from the next 20 cases.

Cases needing a person Next 20 cases
Before
40%
After
20%

Half as many interruptions after seven approved rules.

Repeat questions
6 → 0

The same people stopped being interrupted.

New rules approved
7

Approved from real decisions, not written up front.

03 / The trust model

Agents can ask. Only people can decide.

01 Scoped
One answer resolves one case.

Until a reusable rule is approved, the answer grants no authority anywhere else.

▪ Case only
02 Human approved
Agents propose. People decide.

A named person approves, edits or rejects the exact rule before it reaches another agent.

▪ Signed by owner
03 Fail-safe
Unreachable means less autonomy.

If PolicyLayer is unavailable, agents gain no new authority and fall back to the last signed playbook.

▪ No silent escalation
04 / The control panel

A question becomes an answer. An answer becomes a rule.

mcp.policylayer.com / customer-support / activity
← All playbooks Customer support Activity 1 Audit Setup
Acme Ltd / Customer support / Activity ▪ agent connected
Waiting on you

Customer asks for a £40 refund after Tuesday's outage. The playbook covers refunds only to £25.

Question intercom-4127 · 12m ago
Answer it
History

Customer wants their data deleted but has an open dispute.

Hold the deletion until the dispute closes, then delete within 30 days.

intercom-4098 · answered by dana@acme.com · 2d ago
Resolved Now a rule · v12
05 / How it connects

One MCP surface. Four small tools.

Keep your model, framework and tools. PolicyLayer handles only the words and rules that govern what the agent may decide.

PolicyLayer MCP surface Words and rules only
01
get_playbook

Load the latest signed company playbook.

02
ask_policy

Route an uncovered decision to its owner.

03
get_answer

Return the answer, owner and context.

04
record_decision

Turn a decision into a rule proposal.

Existing agent PolicyLayer MCP Decision owners in Slack
Connected in minutes

Paste the endpoint into your MCP config. That is the whole integration.

Nothing to rewrite

Your model, framework and every existing tool stay exactly as they are.

Roll out gradually

Start with one agent. Add the fleet when the playbook has earned it.

06 / Day one

Your company already knows the answers.

Bring your playbook
Already have rules? We ingest them.

Runbooks, policy docs, or the rules buried in your system prompts: PolicyLayer turns them into proposed rules, each routed to its owner to sign.

▪ Signed playbook in week one
Or start in observe mode
No rules yet? Watch first.

Agents keep working exactly as they do today. PolicyLayer watches the decisions being made and surfaces the repeated ones worth turning into rules.

▪ No behaviour change on day one
07 / Where it starts

One authority layer. Different agent workflows.

01 / Support
Stop escalating the same exception.

Refunds, fee waivers and policy exceptions become reusable after the right person approves them.

See the decision loop →
02 / Coding agents
One playbook across every coding session.

Claude Code, Codex and Cursor start from the same approved rules without files drifting apart.

Explore coding agents →
03 / Managed agents
Bring company judgment into every run.

Route uncovered decisions to owners while long-running agents keep working on everything else.

Explore managed agents →
08 / Common questions

The four things people ask.

Does my agent stop and wait for an answer?

No. The case parks, the agent keeps working, and it collects the answer in a later session. Silence never becomes permission.

What can PolicyLayer see?

The playbook you give it and the questions your agents ask. Never your code, your customers, or your tools.

What happens if PolicyLayer goes down?

Agents fall back to the last signed playbook. Failure always means less autonomy, never more.

Who decides what agents may do?

A named person, every time. Every rule records who approved it, what it covers, and when it took effect.

The company-sized idea

Agents are going to run the world’s companies. PolicyLayer is how company judgment becomes machine authority.