Assay – validation layer for AI agents that touch money
VenturFlow has released Assay, an open-source validation layer for AI agents involved in financial transactions. This library aims to enhance safety and compliance by validating AI agent decisions before any monetary actions are taken. Assay provides a structured approach to ensure that AI-driven financial workflows adhere to regulatory standards.
- ▪Assay is designed to validate AI agent decisions before money moves.
- ▪The library includes features like output validation, tool-call gating, and trajectory validation.
- ▪It is an open-source project released under the Apache 2.0 license.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/VenturFlow/Assay |
| Publication time | Thu, 21 May 2026 18:26:39 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-21T18:36:35.667Z |
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assay Assay every AI agent decision before money moves. A safety and validation library for AI agentic workflows in finance, contributed by VenturFlow to the open-source community. About this project This library is an open-source goodwill release from VenturFlow — a separate, commercial Agentic AI platform built for venture-capital firms. We hit the same set of agent-safety problems again and again while building VenturFlow's platform, decided the field shouldn't each have to solve them from scratch, and pulled out the layer that we think is generally useful and ship it here under Apache 2.0. This repository is not the VenturFlow platform.
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