The Agentic Runtime Protection
(ARP) Platform
Sub-millisecond trajectory observability and deterministic execution firewalls for autonomous AI agents. Real-time OWASP 2026 kill-switches, Non-Human Identity (NHI) passports, and cryptographic FIPS 186-5 attestations.
Rapid bottom-up developer adoption of btp-guard with 480+ Weekly Active Developers (WAD) embedding native AST hooks in agent workflows.
Audited to date across autonomous multi-agent swarms. Intercepted & halted 14,000+ unauthorized tool mutations with zero prompt leakage.
Signed enterprise pilot pipeline and dev agencies utilizing BTP Audit Packages for client agent deliverable attestation with 2.8% net monthly churn.
Zero-friction interoperability. Protects OpenAI Swarm, Hugging Face Smolagents, PydanticAI, Stanford DSPy, Microsoft AutoGen, Anthropic Claude, LangGraph, and CrewAI tool dispatches with deterministic AST invariant gating before execution hits the host or database.
Why Bartholomew: Sovereign Protection for the Autonomous Era
Why deterministic runtime protection is the missing primitive in modern agentic architectures.
Why Now?
AI agents are transitioning from harmless natural language conversation to real-world tool execution. Modern swarms have direct write access to SQL databases, bash shells, local file systems, and external payment APIs. Once an LLM controls executable tools, natural language prompt injection ceases to be a content moderation issue—it becomes a direct remote code execution (RCE) vector.
Why It's Needed
Existing defenses rely on "LLM-as-a-judge" observers or probabilistic prompt guardrails. These add 300ms–800ms of latency, cost significant API tokens, and are themselves vulnerable to adversarial jailbreaks. Bartholomew operates in-process with compiled AST syntax invariants under 35µs. No prompt trick can bypass a deterministic compiler gate.
What Is Its Goal?
To be the sovereign execution firewall and cryptographic identity layer for the entire autonomous AI ecosystem. Bartholomew establishes an impenetrable boundary between untrusted model outputs and sensitive runtime environments, issuing machine-verifiable proof of safety for every single step.
Who Can Benefit?
Engineered for everyone deploying autonomous agents into critical environments:
- Enterprise CISOs & DevSecOps: Eliminate catastrophic database wipes, prevent API secret leaks, and automate continuous SOC 2 Type II and EU AI Act (Art. 14 & 15) compliance evidence with zero data retention.
- AI Engineers & Founders: Wrap any agentic stack (AutoGen, LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI SDK) in 3 lines of code without altering business logic or adding perceptible latency.
- Dev Agencies & AI Consultancies: Deliver client deliverables with certified cryptographic audit trails (SHA-256 Merkle proofs), ensuring autonomous bots never hallucinate dangerous commands in customer production.
Why the Ecosystem Needs Us
Model neutrality is non-negotiable. Frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) build models and frameworks, but they cannot objectively arbitrate multi-agent, cross-model swarms. Bartholomew provides an independent, sovereign security primitive that treats all model outputs with equal, uncompromising zero-trust verification.
How to Audit an Agent Trajectory in 3 Simple Steps
Experience deterministic AST invariant evaluation live in your browser.
Load or Paste Trajectory
Input an agent step dump in standard JSON format containing thoughts, tool names, and arguments. Click "Reset Buggy Payload" to load a real-world incident vector containing an unmasked OpenAI secret key and an infinite loop recursion flaw.
Trigger Compiled AST Scan
Click "Run ARP Invariant & Reliability Audit". The native engine parses the syntax tree in under 0.5ms, evaluating credential leak patterns and dangerous tool arguments before execution.
Inspect Live Verdict & Receipts
Review the instant audit scorecard: OWASP risk status, reliability percentage, credential leak warnings, backoff loop breaker flags, and cryptographic attestation proofs ready for export.
Architectural Defensibility & Edge-Case Security
How Bartholomew prevents runtime bypasses, eval() obfuscations, and identity spoofing under strict < 0.5ms SLA budgets.
Dynamic Eval() & Runtime Construction Neutralization
Adversarial agents often construct base64-encoded strings, invoke dynamic eval() / exec(), or abuse runtime import hooks to evade static pattern matchers. Bartholomew solves this natively without incurring remote LLM proxy latency:
- Dual-Stage AST Semantic Decompilation: Pre-execution AST hooks traverse syntax trees in < 35µs, flagging indirect call sites and string concatenations before execution.
- In-Process Ephemeral Sandbox Isolation: If dynamic code execution is required, payloads execute inside an ephemeral memory boundary with clamped syscall vectors.
- Deterministic Sub-0.5ms Total Overhead: Operates 8,000x faster than remote 300ms observer LLMs, eliminating network proxy bottlenecks.
Cryptographic Agent Passports & Step Attestations
Enterprise CISOs cannot secure autonomous agent fleets without knowing which agent executed which step. Bartholomew introduces sovereign, non-human identity verification:
- FIPS 186-5 Ed25519 Keypairs: Every autonomous agent worker generates a local cryptographic passport during boot. All tool dispatches are signed at generation.
- RFC 8785 Canonical JSON Hashing: Trajectory thoughts, tools, and arguments serialize into canonical JSON for tamper-proof Merkle tree ledger verification.
- Immutable Forensic Audit Trail: Machine-verifiable receipts provide instantaneous compliance evidence for SOC 2 Type II and EU AI Act (Articles 14 & 15).
Open-Core Adoption to Enterprise Defense
From seamless developer CI/CD integration to air-gapped VPCs with bonded execution warranties.
Open-Source CLI
Integrate in under 60 seconds via 3-line YAML or pip package for local in-process protection.
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btp-guardIn-Process CLI - Sub-35µs AST Invariant Gating
- Unlimited Local Evaluations
Developer API Tier
For high-velocity agent builders needing automated secret scrubbing and step quota limits.
- Automated Secret Scrubbing Proxy
- Step Limits & Spend Caps
- Cloud Policy Synchronization
Remediation & Audit
Full OWASP trajectory audit reports, verifiable SHA-256 evidence, and auto-generated patch fixes.
- Comprehensive Trajectory Scan
- Signed Compliance Audit PDF
- Backoff Loop Breaker Patches
Custom Enterprise
Air-gapped VPC gateways, bonded warranties, and automated compliance evidence for regulated enterprises.
- $10,000 Bonded Execution Warranty
- Air-Gapped VPC & Private Gateway
- Continuous SOC 2 Evidence Streams
Raising Seed Round — Building the sovereign security layer for the $100B agent ecosystem.
Bartholomew establishes the native execution firewall for autonomous AI agent tool dispatch. Request our 8-slide seed pitch deck, technical due diligence whitepaper, and pilot customer data room.