Enemy
The enemy category is agent washing. TUCE is the refuse-until-true plane.
Cognitive OS / governed agent control plane
A floor. Not a folder. Not a mega-agent. Not a framework gallery.
TUCE sits above the developer’s graphs and below the enterprise security boundary. Framework-agnostic. Models advise. Deterministic gates decide.
Capture
Open-source frameworks win hello-world speed. Capture at the governance cliff. Cursor owns the keyboard. TUCE owns ship / no-ship and production agent ops.
Coordination
Highest coordination value sits where no single system of record owns the outcome. That is why origin isolation plus a command plane is the product — not a mega-merge. Context, not TUCE revenue.
LangGraph, CrewAI, and the rest can sit underneath. TUCE does not replace your graph. It governs what that graph is allowed to promote.
Alternate category phrase, used once: horizontal agent control plane. It does not replace Cognitive OS / governed agent control plane.
Where it sits
Above the graph. Below the boundary.
TUCE sits above the developer’s graphs and below the enterprise security boundary. Framework-agnostic. Models advise. Deterministic gates decide.
Framework-agnostic
LangGraph, CrewAI, and the rest can sit underneath. TUCE does not replace your graph. It governs what that graph is allowed to promote.
Dual-authority
Privileged acts require dual authority: the human or session principal and the agent identity must independently authorize. Missing either fails closed. The intersection of permissions is what actually fires.
The scarce value is not that it can run an agent. It is that policy, identity, promotion, and the digital thread can become the system of record for autonomous work. Residue is the switching cost. Architected for that; not claimed as fleet-scale SoR today.
Sage bind
C-band is not a verdict. Hold is not Promote.
Comparison is where reviewers invent a sixth band. They do not get one. Operator-visible / F21 / decideHitl stay three vocabularies. Promote is F08 after Hold.
usage-bands since 8.4.14
Operator-visible
- C0 Observe
- C1 Advise · Assist
- C2 Steer · Act
- C3 Hold
Six bands on one runtime. Not six SKUs. Not a vendor gallery.
verbs, not verdicts
Manual F21
- C0 observes
- C1 drafts
- C2 stages for confirmation
- C3 acts only inside a bounded envelope
Hold can fire at any C-band. Recur writes the lesson after the hold, not instead of it.
per-invoke verdict
decideHitl
- auto
- interrupt
- refuse
Verdict is not a renaming of C-band. skipHitl cannot open Hold.
Never one band for Hold and Promote. Two verbs. One runway after Hold.
Wedge
Most agent projects die on cost, unclear value, and missing risk controls. TUCE holds promotion until those are answered.
Beachhead
For operators who already watched an agent project get cancelled.
Governance cliff
Open-source frameworks win hello-world speed. Capture at the governance cliff. Cursor owns the keyboard. TUCE owns ship / no-ship and production agent ops.
Press a row for why that axis matters.
| Axis | Tabs / framework gallery | Mega-agent / vertical | TUCE gates |
|---|---|---|---|
analog ≠ native. Packed trees on partner origins are snapshots. This table is a governance invert, not a microbenchmark. No µs letter. Booked ARR $0. We do not host PostGIS. We do not replace redis-server. External scores never promote.
Next
Open a partner. Watch a hold. Start the floor.
Fifteen live origins. Checkout stays there.
Watch a promotion hold
Interactive analogue. Models advise. You still pass the gates.
Play the tools
Live in-tab engines. Analogues labelled.
Start the command floor
Choose Full, Lite, or CLI. Toggle anytime. Lite is density, not a SKU.
Talk to sales
Two business days. No invented pipeline.