A narrow software category for agents that act after approval.
Replayable consent context software sits between raw audit logs and broad governance dashboards. It is built for personal agents that need to ask, act, remember, and resume without confusing yesterday’s permission with today’s state.
The control plane is the consent record
A personal AI agent may receive approval over SMS, use a browser, update a file, book a service, or publish generated content. The consent record must travel with that work. A plain yes/no flag is too brittle because it loses evidence, scope, expiry, and the human’s actual intent.
For a text-message AI assistant, the software should connect the compact message approval to a larger room containing screenshots, extracted facts, proposed action, risk notes, and resume rules.
Evidence bundle
Freeze the proof that was available when the user approved: page state, extracted text, diffs, citations, and generated outputs.
Consent boundary
Translate a human reply into a narrow machine-readable permission with limits, exclusions, and expiry conditions.
Resume rule
Tell the next agent run whether it can proceed, needs a lightweight confirmation, or must ask again from scratch.
Buying checklist
- Can operators inspect the exact evidence shown at approval time?
- Can consent be narrowed to one task, account, amount, page, or time window?
- Can browser state changes invalidate old consent?
- Can generated outputs link to rollback instructions?
- Can the agent load the record before resuming?
Why this matters now
Personal agents are moving beyond chat. They increasingly touch live workflows where the cost of an ambiguous approval is higher: money movement, scheduling, account changes, browser actions, and public content. Consent context turns approval from a moment into a reusable operational artifact.