01 · Issue
Request-scoped minting
Mint scoped key for this request.
TTL 04:00
Security · governed AI infrastructure
Every AI request is authorized before it runs.
Identity, policy, and scope verified at the gateway—before any token reaches a model. Nothing granted by default, everything expires, all decisions logged.
No standing credentials
Every request attributable and revocable
authorization spine
monitoring
Developer
queued
Identity
standing by
Policy
standing by
AIMS Gateway
idle
Credential
queued
Audit
queued
Revocation
standby
AI Provider
standing by
›
watching for outbound requests
01 Security foundation
A security foundation running underneath every request.
Short-lived credentials, continuous attribution and central revocation aren't a layer bolted on top — they're the substrate every call to a model is built on, whether or not anyone is watching.
02 · Enforce
Context-bound access
Apply policy and entitlement before provider access.
Policy active
03 · Revoke
Central retirement
Auto-expire or instantly kill from control plane.
Kill switch ready
Credential lifecycle in real time
02 Security model
Every request passes through a security boundary.
Nothing reaches a model without first clearing identity, authentication and policy. The gateway is the only path in — here's what happens to a single request, in order.
Live request
watching the pipeline
Developer
Initiates the request from an editor or CLI
idle
Identity
Resolves the calling developer and organization
idle
Authentication
Verifies the session is valid and unexpired
idle
Policy evaluation
Checks story budget and model entitlement
idle
Scoped credential
Issues a key limited to this request only
idle
AI Provider
Receives the authorized call, and nothing else
idle
Audit event
Writes an immutable record of the call
idle
Key Expiration
Credential expires or is revoked at source
idle
TTL: 03:59:59
Event stream
03 Identity
Know who is making the request.
Every request arrives with a resolved identity and project context. AIMS validates the session before policy evaluates what that identity is allowed to do.
verifying
Session context receipt showing resolved identity and verification timeline. Status updates announced automatically.
Live authorization spine showing request moving through identity checks. Progress updates announced automatically.
- Request received
- Identity lookup
- Session validated
- Context resolved
- Identity verified
request captured
identity resolved
session validated
context signed
gateway handoff ready
04 Policy enforcement
The model only sees what policy allows.
Every authenticated request is evaluated at the gateway. AIMS checks identity, project, entitlement, model, feature, budget and environment before a provider ever receives the request.
policy gate / live evaluation
evaluating
Request receipt
entering policy engine
seven checks / stop on failure
Identity
idle
Project
idle
Entitlement
idle
Model
idle
Feature
idle
Budget
idle
Environment
idle
EVALUATING
running policy checks…
Preview outcome
Request
Policy
evaluating
request stops here
Gateway
Model
05 Credential security
No long-lived provider keys on developer machines.
Every call is issued a scoped, short-lived credential instead of a static provider key — created at request time, tied to that request's context, and revoked automatically once its window closes.
AIMS gateway / ephemeral grant
CredentialActive
Projectcheckout-redesign
ModelGPT-5
Scopefeature-x
Issued09:42:11
TTL / short-lived access14:32
Credential lifecycle
- 1REQUEST
- 2ISSUED
- 3ACTIVE
- 4USED
- 5EXPIRING
- 6EXPIRED
- 7REVOKED
Credential refreshed
06 Data protection
Every request follows one governed path.
From the developer's machine to the provider and back, traffic moves over encrypted transport through a single AIMS gateway — not a direct, unmanaged connection to the provider.
request & response path
idle
transport
connection
07 Auditability
Every decision leaves evidence.
Every request, policy decision and credential event is written to the audit trail — allowed and denied alike — and linked by a shared request ID.
audit event stream
streaming
08 Security control plane
A live view of the system that enforces everything above.
Identity, policy, credentials, the provider gateway and the audit pipeline are independent services. The console below reflects their status as they run.
Security control plane
AIMS Console
Operational
Requests
128,402
Authorized
126,910
Blocked
1,492
Active credentials
37
System health
IdentityOperational
Policy engineOperational
Credential serviceOperational
Provider gatewayOperational
Audit pipelineOperational
Request volume
last 60s
Last event
09:42:12
REQUEST
response returned to developer
COMPLETED
09 Security principles
Every request leaves a trail you can defend.
AIMS turns AI access into an explicit decision: who requested it, what they were allowed to use, how long access lasted, and what happened next.
DEFAULT DENY
No entitlement, no request.
A developer cannot reach a model or provider until the project explicitly allows it.
SHORT-LIVED ACCESS
Every grant has an ending.
Credentials are scoped to the task and expire when the work no longer needs them.
ATTRIBUTABLE USAGE
Identity stays attached.
Requests retain their developer, project, story, provider, and authorization context.
EVIDENCE BY DEFAULT
Allowed and denied are both recorded.
The audit trail captures the decision, not only the successful request.
REQUEST LEDGERreq_7F2A
AUTHORIZED
Scoped access issued after policy approval.
- ACTOR
- Maya Chen / platform team
- CONTEXT
- checkout-api / payment retry story
- PROVIDER
- Anthropic / Claude Sonnet
- DECISION
- Policy matched / entitlement confirmed
- CREDENTIAL
- Scoped to checkout-api / expires in 03:58:21
- AUDIT
- Decision recorded / 09:42:18 UTC
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