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Design space

Products shaped by cheap decisions.

These are research hypotheses, not a startup-idea dump. Each includes a specific Jev advantage, a 1–7 day MVP, a validation experiment, evidence, and unknowns.

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Agent tool gatingHIGHIndie fit 10/10

Agent Tool Firewall

A local gateway that scores every proposed tool call and requires confirmation only when risk is high.

Problem
Autonomous agents can select destructive or irrelevant tools from large catalogs.
Why Jev
Tool execution needs a typed allow/deny/escalate decision with confidence, not generated prose.
Architecture
Agent proposal → Jev risk and intent questions → deterministic policy thresholds → tool or approval UI.
Current alternative
Prompt-based guardrails, static allowlists, or an LLM judge on every call.
Jev advantage
A decision can run inside every agent step while preserving explicit policy code.
Unknowns
Calibration under prompt injection and whether confidence remains stable across tool schemas.
1–7 day MVP
Build an MCP proxy for five filesystem and shell tools with a macOS confirmation panel.
Validation experiment
Replay 200 benign and adversarial tool calls; measure unsafe allows, needless prompts, latency, and cost.
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Confidence: The typed-decision interface directly matches tool gating, though safety still needs deterministic backstops.

Evidence 1 Evidence 2 Evidence 3