Common questions.
What is Policy Engine?
A policy engine is the service that evaluates rules in real time and decides whether an agent action should be allowed, denied, escalated, or logged.
How is Policy Engine used in production?
In agent governance, those decisions are typically based on identity, context, risk, and task scope.
Which terms are related to Policy Engine?
Closely related concepts include Jailbreak (AI Agent), Policy Enforcement Point, Agent Behavior Policy, Agent Context Isolation. Each is defined in the Prefactor glossary.