Positioning
Where Deixic sits
Deixic runs at action time, between agents and the systems they act on: gated work waits for a human approve or deny, the decision is recorded with its evidence, and the same app shows month-to-date spend by agent and which agents are running. Below, the four categories Deixic gets compared to: what each does, and what Deixic does.
Agent frameworks
Frameworks are what teams build agents with: the planning loop, tool calls, memory, retries. Deixic picks up after the agent exists. The agents a team runs, on whatever mix of frameworks, show on one live list with an owner, and their gated work waits in one approval queue. The argument for a gate that lives outside the agent: Controls that hold when the agent stops agreeing.
Eval and observability tools
Eval tools score agent output against test sets; observability tools trace what happened inside completed runs. Deixic evaluates the next action before it executes: identity, resource, arguments, run context, and policy version feed a decision to allow, hold for approval, or deny (Policy at action time). In the app, that is the queue of work waiting on you, with target and evidence attached.
SIEM
A SIEM receives logs from across the company and correlates them after the events land. Deixic sits where the approve or deny on a gated agent action happens, so its activity trail records the agent, the operator who decided, the run, the decision, and the evidence behind it — the fields listed in What an agent audit row should carry.
IAM and service accounts
IAM answers which identity holds which permissions, and a service account’s grant is standing — sized to everything the program might ever need (Why service-account permissions don’t fit agents). Deixic works during the run, inside that grant: a gated action waits for sign-off before it finishes, an agent that needs follow-up can be paused, and both outcomes go on the trail.
What ships in the app today: What you can do. The longer argument: Thesis and An operating model the runtime can enforce.