Berlin AI Labs ยท Independent Systems R&D

Runtime Execution Security for Autonomous AI Agents

Containing agent processes, constraining tool privileges, and producing verifiable cryptographic execution proofs. Directed by Yami Gopal in Berlin.

Sub-50ms Kernel Jailing
Ed25519 Cryptographic Proofs
Article 14 Human Oversight Gates
Berlin Principal Practice
Systems Architecture

Execution Security for Autonomous Agents

Three core layers to contain agent processes, constrain tool access, and prove runtime execution integrity.

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OS Kernel Sandboxing

Restricting stdio-based tool execution at the operating system boundary. Native Apple Seatbelt and Linux Landlock/seccomp profiles isolate agent tools from host filesystems, secrets, and outbound network sockets.

  • โšก Sub-50ms process jailing
  • ๐Ÿšซ Blocks prompt-injection tool escalation
  • ๐Ÿ“ฆ Per-tool filesystem namespace isolation
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Cryptographic Execution Proofs

Verifiable runtime evidence chains via the VERA Protocol. Every model decision, tool call, and state transition produces an Ed25519-signed proof record that auditors inspect independently without seeing proprietary weights.

  • ๐Ÿ”— Tamper-evident hash-chained logs
  • โœ๏ธ Ed25519 signature per tool execution
  • ๐Ÿ“‹ SOC 2 Type II and regulatory export
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Article 14 Human Oversight Gates

Hardware-attested execution gates and multisig approval thresholds for high-stakes agent actions. Intercepts irreversible financial transactions, database mutations, or infrastructure alterations before execution commits.

  • ๐Ÿ›‘ Automated policy threshold halts
  • ๐Ÿ”‘ Multi-signatory approval workflows
  • ๐Ÿ›๏ธ Strict EU AI Act Article 14 compliance
Commercial Engagements

Productized Security Services

Direct technical reviews and runtime deployments for engineering teams facing enterprise security scrutiny.

Focused Audit ยท 3 Days โ‚ฌ3,500 - โ‚ฌ7,500

Agent Attack-Surface Review

A targeted technical audit of your agent's Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool exposure, prompt-injection attack vectors, environment leakage, and file descriptor boundaries.

  • ๐Ÿ” Full threat model and attack tree
  • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Proof-of-concept exploit demonstrations
  • ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Custom AegisMCP syscall sandboxing profile
  • ๐Ÿ“„ Executive attestation brief for enterprise CISOs
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Turnkey Pilot ยท 4 Weeks โ‚ฌ15,000 - โ‚ฌ30,000

Runtime Control Pilot

Hands-on implementation of kernel-level sandboxing, Article 14 approval gates, and Ed25519 execution proofs directly within your agent deployment infrastructure.

  • โš™๏ธ Production Aegis sidecar deployment on host or K8s
  • ๐Ÿ” Custom tool access policies and multisig triggers
  • ๐Ÿ“œ VERA cryptographic proof pipeline and dashboard integration
  • ๐Ÿค Architecture pairing sessions and direct handover with Yami
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Interactive Systems

Production Systems & Demonstrations

Interactive prototypes, compliance middleware, and runtime governance control planes built by the lab.

Systems Research

Featured Research & Engineering Essays

In-depth architectural analysis on agent runtime isolation, domain-driven design, and model capability routing.

Security Paper

Securing stdio: The Hidden Security Threat in MCP

Most MCP integrations communicate over stdio, bypassing corporate network gateways. Here is how we contained prompt-injection exfiltration at the syscall level using Rust.

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Distributed Architecture

Domain-Driven Design for Multi-Agent Swarms

Applying Domain-Driven Design and Hexagonal Architecture to build decoupled agent swarms that maintain deterministic state without corruption.

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Model Routing

Improving Quality with a Tiered Model Ladder

Orchestrating model capability tiers for cost and latency optimization. Heavy reasoning models frame the problem; lightweight models execute.

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Explore All 11 Engineering Essays in Research Archive โ†’
Applied Systems Archive

Applied Systems & Engineering Prototypes

Earlier distributed pipelines, multimodal engines, and failure injection systems architected by the lab.

Failure Injection

AI Canary Monitoring System

Synthetic probe execution, runtime failure injection, and automated model drift detection across production agent deployments.

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Multimodal Video Pipeline

Multimodal Video Processing Pipeline

Autonomous scene segmentation, Whisper speech transcription, and GPU rendering queues for long-form video understanding and clip extraction.

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Distributed Workflows

Event-Driven Workflow Orchestration

Deterministic retry loops, dead-letter queues, and state synchronization across distributed worker nodes in n8n and Python.

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๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ EU AI Act Ready
โšก Sub-50ms Sandboxing
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๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Engineered in Berlin
The Practice

Principal Systems Practice,
Directed by Yami Gopal

I direct Berlin AI Labs as an applied systems workshop focused on agent execution security, process jailing, and verifiable compliance.

Before founding this practice, I spent fifteen years designing carrier-grade distributed architectures, high-throughput financial backends, and enterprise systems across Europe. I do not run an agency with account managers or junior developers. When you engage Berlin AI Labs, you work directly with me on your kernel boundaries, proxy gateways, and attestation chains.

Rust Systems Engineering
OS Sandboxing (Seatbelt / Landlock)
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Security
EU AI Act Article 14 Controls
Cryptographic Proof Chains
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Yami Gopal - Principal Systems Architect

Facing Enterprise Security or Compliance Review?

If enterprise procurement or security auditors are blocking your agent deployment, we harden your execution stack. We inspect tool boundaries, configure syscall restrictions, and produce verifiable audit logs that satisfy CISOs.

Direct Intake

Initiate Technical Engagement

Direct access to Yami Gopal for agent attack-surface reviews, runtime sandboxing pilots, and EU AI Act compliance audits.

Principal Engineer
Yami Gopal
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VERA Protocol Whitepaper โ†’ Article 14 Interactive Gate โ†’