Adapt (Phase 5)
The Adapt phase enables trust evolution over time. Review policy suggestions, handle approvals, and monitor trust recovery.
Access via Agent Detail → Adapt tab.
Sub-tabs
Approvals
Agent-specific pending approval requests:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Request ID | Unique identifier |
| Operation | What needs approval |
| Session | Originating session |
| Requested | Timestamp |
| Timeout | Time remaining |
| Trust Impact | Score change if approved/rejected |
Actions:
- Approve - Allow operation to proceed
- Reject - Deny operation
- View Context - See full governance decision details
For the organization-wide approval queue, see Approvals.
Insights
AI-generated insights for improving governance:
Policy Suggestions
Based on observed patterns, OpenBox suggests new policies or rules:
Suggested Rule: "PII Access + External API"
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Trigger: DATABASE_READ on PII tables
Condition: EXTERNAL_API_CALL within 60s (without approval)
Action: REQUIRE_APPROVAL
Confidence: 87%
Based on: 12 similar violations in past 30 days
For each suggestion:
- Accept - Creates the rule in Authorize tab
- Reject - Dismisses (with reason)
- Modify - Opens in rule editor
Violation Patterns
Detected patterns in governance blocks:
| Pattern | Frequency | Severity | Recommendation |
|---|---|---|---|
| External API without approval | 12/month | Medium | Add behavioral rule |
| PII access during off-hours | 5/month | High | Time-based policy |
| Bulk database reads | 8/month | Low | Rate limiting guardrail |
Trust Recovery Progress
For agents with degraded trust scores, shows recovery path:
Current Trust Score: 62 (Tier 3)
Target: 75 (Tier 2)
Recovery Progress:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 48%
Recent trend: +1.2 points/day
Estimated recovery: 11 days
Requirements:
✓ No violations for 7 consecutive days
✓ 50+ compliant operations
○ Approval acceptance rate >90%
Trust Score Evolution
The Trust Score evolves based on behavior:
Positive Factors
| Factor | Impact |
|---|---|
| Compliant operations | +0.1 per 10 operations |
| Approved HITL requests | +0.5 per approval |
| High alignment scores | +0.2 per session |
| No violations (streak) | +0.5 per day |
Negative Factors
| Factor | Impact |
|---|---|
| Policy violation | -2 to -10 depending on severity |
| Goal drift detected | -1 to -5 |
| Approval timeout | -1 |
| Approval rejection | -2 |
| TERMINATE_AGENT triggered | -15 |
Tier Transitions
When Trust Score crosses thresholds:
- Downgrade: Immediate upon crossing lower bound
- Upgrade: Requires sustained score above threshold for 7 days
Trust Timeline
View historical Trust Score changes:
Jan 15 ●━━━ 87 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tier 2
Jan 14 ●━━━ 85 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tier 2
Jan 13 ●━━━ 72 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tier 3 ⚠️ Policy violation
Jan 12 ●━━━ 84 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tier 2
Jan 11 ●━━━ 86 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tier 2
Each entry shows:
- Score and tier
- Change reason (if applicable)
- Link to relevant session or event
Continuous Improvement Loop
The Adapt phase feeds back into other phases:
- Insights identify patterns
- Suggestions create new rules in Authorize
- Improved governance leads to better Monitor data
- Better alignment in Verify
- Trust score improves in Adapt
This creates a continuous improvement loop for your AI governance.
Next Steps
The Trust Lifecycle is continuous. From here you can:
- Update Governance (Authorize) - Accept policy suggestions or create new rules
- Re-assess Risk (Assess) - If your agent's capabilities have changed
- Handle Approvals - Review organization-wide approval queue