CAIN-42 CAIN StudioAGENTIC AI 75 · #27
Always-on workplace teammates
Perplexity Teammates introduced persistent agents using workspace context, memory and specialised roles.
Last reviewed 2026-11-11
Agentic AI 75 / #27
2026 status: Product launch · Category: Workplace agents
The 2026 development
Perplexity Teammates introduced persistent agents using workspace context, memory and specialised roles.
The governance gap
An always-on agent accumulates authority by default. A persistent role needs a lease that expires, a review that can revoke it, and a boundary between the role's standing context and a one-off instruction.
Where CAIN-42 fits: Moat 7 — Autonomous Trust Control Loop
Core question: Can verified experience change future trust? Monitor, detect, contain, recover, and re-authorise from observed outcomes.
Treat authority as a lease, not a permission. ARGUS issues time-bounded assurance leases, requires re-authorisation when behaviour or environment changes, and refuses self-renewal by the agent.
How the wiring works
- Issue a lease naming the role, scope, resources and expiry.
- Re-evaluate the lease on a schedule and on every material change.
- Require a human or independent verifier to renew a high-impact lease.
- Revoke immediately on drift, incident or missing evidence.
What is real today
LIBRARY Production code and tests exist in this repository; there is no hosted route for this exact use.
The lease and re-authorisation engine is real and tested. It is not a Perplexity product and no always-on hosted teammate runs here.
| Component in this repository | What the module says it is |
|---|---|
cain/argus/lease.py | CAIN ARGUS — the Autonomous Assurance Lease (Prompt 14, section 9). |
cain/argus/reauthorization.py | CAIN ARGUS — continuous re-authorization engine (Prompt 14, sections 8-9). |
cain/argus/state_machine.py | CAIN ARGUS — assurance state machine (Prompt 14, section 16). |
cain/argus/assurance.py | CAIN ARGUS — the ArgusAssuranceObject and its canonical, signed form (Prompt 14, section 5). |
Descriptions are the first line of each module's own docstring, read without importing it. A module path is a pointer into this repository, not a hosted endpoint. Its existence is checked by the test suite; its status for this use is the label above.
Check it yourself
- Inspect the live ARGUS status
/fabric/argus/status - Fire a live decision through the CAIN-42 pipeline
/fabric/try— the same enforcement path every product sits behind.
Commercial package
| Offer | Agent Lease Review |
|---|---|
| Buyer | Workplace-agent vendors and enterprise IT |
| Price (proposal) | $3,500–$7,500 per review |
| Bundle | Runtime Containment & Evidence — Contain first, then prove what happened. |
| Operator stream | Stream 3 of the 10-stream operator playbook |
SOC, incident response, compliance, enterprise IT is the bundle buyer. The entry offer for this bundle is Runtime containment review; signed evidence pack; the range is $2,500–$5,000 per review; $2,000–$10,000 per evidence pack. A price on this page is a proposal, not a validated rate, and no customer is claimed.
Buy this as a product or service
CAIN-A75-027 — Agent Lease Review DELIVERABLE
A bounded engine run on the buyer's sample: findings, a written report, and a SHA-256 artifact manifest. The manifest is unsigned: it is not a signature and not an attestation.
Kind: Retainer · Price (proposal): $3,500–$7,500 per review · Lead time: 5 business days.
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What this page does not claim
What this page is not. CAIN-42 is not affiliated with, endorsed by, integrated into, or shipped with the organisation named in the 2026 item. The item is public context; the page describes how CAIN-42 would govern that class of capability. No page here claims a customer, a partnership, a certification, a patent, or a production integration. Prices are proposals. Built by a three-person team.