Secure AI Agents
Solve the AI agent problem you cannot risk getting wrong
Useful AI agents need access. High-stakes agents need boundaries. TypeScope adds type-checked boundaries to your production AI agents without changing your tech stack.
The Risk
Your AI agent can overreach
Automating real work requires clear limits: what the agent may touch, what it must never touch, and what happens when a prompt or generated code goes wrong.
Prompt injection
A crafted input convinces the agent to act outside its intended task — deleting records, calling unintended APIs, or following the attacker's instructions instead of yours.
Data exfiltration
Generated code can read data it should not access and send it to an external endpoint — sensitive rows, internal secrets, or another customer's records.
Infrastructure damage
Malicious code generated by a compromised prompt can drop database tables, delete files, or wipe valuable data.
The Mechanism
The boundary follows the workflow
Technology matters only after the risk is clear. Once the workflow and protected data are understood, TypeScope moves the security boundary into the type system, proves it at build time, and keeps it compatible with the runtime, API, database, and network defenses you already operate.
Runtime guardrails
- ✗ Hope a filter catches the bad input
- ✗ Blind to "only this user's rows"
- ✗ Violations surface in production
Compile-time boundaries · Jo
- ✓ Compiler proves the boundary before it runs
- ✓ Business rules are typed capabilities
- ✓ Violations are compile errors, not incidents
Multi-layer Defense
Jo · compile-time sandbox
The innermost wall. Its door is a typed capability — the compiler proves the agent can reach nothing else, before the code ever runs.
Runtime isolation
The middle wall. Resource quota and filesystem sandboxing — its door is what the OS sandbox permits.
Network policy
The outer wall. Egress policy — its door is the set of endpoints your network allows.
Why TypeScope
For sensitive workflows and data
We ground each build in the workflow, data, and risk your team needs to control. Then we design agents whose limits are provable, auditable, and matched to your security and operational requirements.
Fit before architecture
Before proposing architecture, we map the workflow, the required access, the users, and the failure modes that matter to your team. The system design follows from that understanding.
Your data stays yours
We support in-house systems and cloud deployments. In both cases, data safety is the priority: access is explicit, bounded, and designed around your security requirements.
Auditable
The boundary is readable code, not a black box. Capability limits live in typed interfaces and version control — something a security reviewer or auditor can actually inspect.
Fits your stack
Adopt Jo at agent boundaries. It compiles to Python and Ruby, wraps existing APIs as typed capabilities, and still pairs with runtime isolation, deployment policy, and monitoring.
We also publish exactly what compile-time sandboxing can and cannot guarantee. Transparency is our core value.
The Foundation
Open source, all the way down
TypeScope builds secure AI agents on Jo, our open-source language with compile-time sandboxing. The language, compiler, and security model are all open to inspection — so you can evaluate the approach before you trust it.
Open Source
Evaluate the approach directly
Jo's language, compiler, docs, and case studies are open source. Inspect the security model, run it yourself, and build on a transparent foundation.
View on GitHubCapability Model
Contextual capabilities
The capability model behind Jo is open source too. Read the contextual-capability work that grounds how authority is passed, narrowed, and checked.
View the modelHave a high-risk AI workflow?
Start with what you want the agent to do, what access it might need, and what would make it unsafe. We will work from there.