The thesis: the boundary that lets you cross the line.

Pete’s story is one shape of a general problem. Every agentic system rebuilds the same machinery — state, valid actions, authority, approvals, evidence — around a new agent each time. KIFF makes that a reusable domain you build once and connect any agent to, without rewiring the system underneath. Software is moving from code that does what it was written to do, to agents that decide at runtime — so the foundation has to own a boundary that can refuse a consequential action before it runs — with a record that holds outside the agent’s own reasoning. Cross the line with peace of mind.

KIFF normalizes the mechanics of that domain — and the refusal at its boundary — the way TCP/IP normalized byte transport:

Not vertical-specific. Any system whose actions map to a state machine can carry an external, verifiable layer of truth.