AGENTIC PROCUREMENT
Put a deterministic gate in front of procurement-agent actions.
Check budget, requester authority, vendor approval, contract context, restricted categories, and approval thresholds before a separate agent invokes a procurement system.
THE PROBLEM
Give the workflow a safe stop point.
A model can draft a purchase request or choose a tool call, but it should not infer authorization, budget availability, or supplier approval from conversational context.
Procurement Agent Safety returns CLEAR, REVIEW_REQUIRED, or BLOCKED with the exact policy evidence and next action before the customer's authorized connector runs.
THE WORKFLOW
- Have the agent assemble the proposed action and customer-authorized policy evidence.
- Call the read-only preflight before invoking a procurement or vendor-management connector.
- Permit, stop, or review the separate downstream action according to the returned evidence and the customer's policy.
COMPOSED FROM
Use the controls that match the job.
BOUNDARIES YOU CAN EXPLAIN
- The control never creates a requisition, purchase order, vendor, or payment.
- A CLEAR result is control evidence, not a delegated approval.
- Restricted categories and thresholds come from customer-supplied policy context.