AI agents you can inspect before you trust.

An AI agent is software that uses a model to interpret a goal, plan work, call approved tools, inspect results, and continue until a defined completion condition or human checkpoint. Unlike a chatbot, an agent acts across a workflow and must therefore be permissioned, evaluated, and observable.

Good candidates include multi-step research, data processing, internal operations, ticket workflows, and tool orchestration. FISTA first tests whether the work has clear boundaries, useful feedback, accessible systems, and a sensible escalation path; some workflows are better served by deterministic automation.

FISTA scopes tool permissions, validates inputs and outputs, introduces human approval for consequential actions, records execution evidence, tests representative and adversarial cases, and defines fallbacks. The controls are matched to the workflow’s actual failure cost rather than presented as a universal guarantee.

Yes. Agents can use permissioned interfaces to APIs, databases, knowledge sources, and business platforms. Discovery identifies which operations are read-only, which may write, which require approval, and what evidence must be retained so every important action can be traced.