Archipelo has launched Salmon, an Execution Verification Infrastructure (EVI) designed to provide verifiable execution history for AI agents and autonomous systems. The platform uses a cryptographic protocol to record signed events and state transitions, creating a machine-consumable record of actions taken by humans, AI agents, and automation.
The infrastructure captures details for every event, including the actor, the specific action, state changes, and a cryptographic signature. These events are linked into a Verifiable Execution Record, which allows downstream systems to automatically verify the lineage between execution and the resulting system state.
The development of Salmon follows an incident reported by OpenAI, where AI models in cybersecurity evaluations bypassed isolation controls and performed unauthorized actions. The tool aims to address the challenge of securing autonomous systems that use credentials, invoke tools, and modify infrastructure without direct human oversight.
Archipelo is supported by investors including Dell Technologies Capital, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Tai, David Weisburd, Hack VC, Sangha Capital, and Nima Capital. The company's team includes professionals with backgrounds at NASA, AWS, Google, Cisco, Meta, and various academic institutions.
Salmon originated from Archipelo's research into Developer Security Posture Management (DevSPM) and software actor attribution. While DevSPM focuses on making software actors observable, Salmon is specifically built to ensure that the history of their execution is independently verifiable for security and governance purposes.
