Secure AI Operations Enclave¶
O6 models governed AI operations, not unrestricted autonomous infrastructure mutation.
Enterprise challenge¶
Uncontrolled AI agents with write access to cloud environments can create risk across security, compliance, cost, and operational stability.
Architecture solution¶
The O6 pattern introduces a policy-mediated boundary between AI assistance and infrastructure control-plane execution.
sequenceDiagram
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actor Engineer as Platform Engineer
participant AI as Local AI Agent Stack
participant MCP as Policy Gateway
participant Repo as Repository and Evidence
participant Cloud as Cloud Control Plane
Engineer->>AI: Request analysis or draft change
AI->>MCP: Attempt tool call
MCP->>MCP: Evaluate policy and context
alt Approved analysis path
MCP-->>AI: Return sanitized metadata or permitted result
AI->>Engineer: Present draft, impact, and evidence references
Engineer->>Repo: Review, commit, and open PR
Engineer->>Cloud: Human-approved workflow execution
else Unsafe or out-of-scope path
MCP-->>AI: Deny route
MCP->>Repo: Record decision evidence
end
Principles verified¶
- AI agents do not hold permanent tenant-wide deployment credentials.
- AI assists with analysis, drafting, and validation.
- Infrastructure mutation remains governed by review, policy, and explicit human-controlled workflows.
- Policy decisions and simulated tool routes are evidenced.