What is Safety?
Safety — Bounding what an autonomous system can do so its actions stay within intended limits.
Safety is the primitive that answers what keeps an agent within bounds? As systems take consequential action on their own, the layer that constrains them moves from feature to precondition.
It is the layer enterprises and regulators require before granting autonomy. Safety names the position that gates deployment, the thing that must be in place before an agent is allowed to act at all.
Where safety sits in the stack
In the four-layer architecture of the agentic web, safety is a Cross-cutting concept — it applies across every layer of the stack. See the thesis for how the layers compound.
Safety in the portfolio
48 positions in the Semantic Substrate portfolio carry the Safety primitive — 45 available individually, 3 held as a coordinated set. Explore the Safety cluster →
Quick answers
- What is Safety in agentic systems?
- Bounding what an autonomous system can do so its actions stay within intended limits.
- Where does Safety sit in the agentic stack?
- Safety sits at the Cross-cutting layer — it applies across every layer of the stack.
- How many Safety domain positions exist in the Semantic Substrate portfolio?
- 48 positions carry the Safety primitive — 45 available individually, the rest held as a coordinated set.