JamJet · Vol. 1 · Apr 2026 Field notes from a runtime

One policy.
Every adapter.

JamJet is the action-control plane for AI agents. One policy file. One audit trail. Across Claude Code hooks, OpenAI Agents SDK guardrails, MCP gateways, Python and TypeScript SDKs, and your custom runtime.

Write the safety policy once. Run it everywhere your agents can act.

$ pip install jamjet

Not another agent framework. The action-control plane that sits underneath them. Keep your stack — add JamJet where tool calls need policy, approval, and audit.

B. Why we built it

Most of what breaks an AI agent in the real world isn’t model quality. It’s the boring stuff: a worker dies, a tool gets called wrong, a budget runs out, an audit team asks what happened. We built JamJet to make those things controllable, recordable, and recoverable — without forcing you to abandon LangGraph or CrewAI or whatever’s already working.

The runtime sits between your agent and everything it touches. Models, tools, memory, other agents — every interaction passes through a layer that can block, wait, record, and resume. Open source. Apache 2.0. Cloud-neutral.

How it fits with what you use →

B½. The same policy, everywhere

Every agent toolchain is inventing its own safety layer.
JamJet gives you one.

One policy.yaml in ~/.jamjet/. Every adapter below loads it. Every adapter emits conformant audit JSONL. Run jamjet audit show to tail every decision across every adapter in one chronological view.

We respect the platforms we plug into. Claude Code gave developers a hook point — JamJet gives that hook point a policy engine, approval flow, and audit trail, and carries the same rules to OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP, and your own code.

C. What goes wrong, and what stops it

Six failure modes.
Six gates.

Other tools observe what agents do. JamJet actively prevents unsafe behavior, recovers from failures, and creates audit evidence — at the runtime layer.

  1. 01
    Lost progress

    A worker dies mid-run. JamJet replays the event log and resumes at the failed node.

  2. 02
    Unsafe tool

    An agent reaches for a tool it shouldn’t. The 4-level policy hierarchy blocks the call before execution.

  3. 03
    Skipped approval

    A high-risk action waits for a human. The run survives restarts. The decision lands in audit.

  4. 04
    Runaway cost

    A reflection loop won’t stop spending. The runtime halts the loop before it crosses the cap.

  5. 05
    Missing audit

    Compliance asks what happened. Every decision is in a signed, exportable evidence package.

  6. 06
    Forgotten context

    The agent forgets across sessions. Engram surfaces durable facts — not raw chat history.

Production isn’t a milestone. It’s the moment your code has to defend itself.

— a thing every serious engineer has learned the hard way
D. Watch one survive

Your agents crash.
Ours recover.

Every step is checkpointed as it happens. When a worker dies mid-run, the scheduler reclaims the lease and resumes from exactly where it stopped. No reruns. No duplicate side effects. No lost events.

  • Worker crashes — the Analyze step fails unexpectedly.
  • Lease reclaimed — scheduler detects the failure.
  • Resume from checkpoint — completed steps stay completed.
  • Zero events lost — full execution integrity preserved.

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E. Same runtime guarantees, two languages

Write Python or Java.
JamJet handles replay, policy, and recovery.

pipeline.py Python
from jamjet import task, workflow, approval

@task(model="claude-sonnet-4-6", max_cost=0.50)
async def analyze(data: dict) -> Report:
    """checkpointed, cost-capped"""

@workflow
async def pipeline(raw):
    report = await analyze(raw)     # crash-safe
    await approval(report)          # durable pause
    return await publish(report)
Pipeline.java Java
Agent analyst = Agent.builder()
    .name("analyst")
    .model("claude-sonnet-4-6")
    .strategy(Strategy.REFLECTION)
    .maxCost(0.50)                   // budget enforced
    .build();

WorkflowGraph pipeline = WorkflowGraph.builder()
    .node(analyst)                    // crash-safe
    .node(ApprovalGate.create())     // durable pause
    .node(publisher)
    .build();

Both compile to the same IR and run on the same Rust runtime. Java has its own native runtime too — zero sidecar, virtual threads, 8.9× faster than the REST sidecar in our benchmark.

F. When the team needs the cockpit

JamJet Cloud

The hosted control plane for agent runs. Trace timeline, policy violations, approval queue, cost guardrails, audit export, hosted Engram — across your team.

G. Need memory first?

Start with Engram.

Open-source memory for MCP-native AI agents. Fact extraction, conflict detection, hybrid retrieval, consolidation. Use it standalone with Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client.

We don’t replace your framework. We sit underneath it, like a seatbelt.

— the design intent, in one sentence

Compared with: Temporal · Microsoft AGT · all integrations

Make agent runs
replayable, auditable,
and controlled.

$ pip install jamjet

Apache 2.0 · Cloud-neutral · Framework-neutral · Built in Rust, Python, and Java.