Developers building practical AI agents face a common roadblock: security teams block deployment. These agents can merge code, deploy to Kubernetes, and update databases, but lack audit trails or approval workflows. This creates "PoC Purgatory" where impressive demos never ship.

The solution is policy-before-dispatch, where every action passes a safety kernel check. Cordum acts as a control plane, evaluating policies coded as YAML. It can allow, deny, require human approval, or throttle actions before they execute, creating a full audit trail for compliance.

Built in Go with a NATS message bus and Redis state store, Cordum introduces the CAP protocol for distributed orchestration. It complements frameworks like LangChain by handling scheduling, policy enforcement, and worker liveness. The project is open source, with an open-core model for enterprise features.