Apart from MS taking over GitHub, most AI agents or automation in CI/CD and governance are either centralized or unverifiable. We can’t prove the agent’s integrity, nor guarantee it hasn’t been tampered with.
Shade agents solve it by:
- Shade Agents are autonomous services that run inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), producing cryptographic attestations of every action they take.
- Unlike traditional CI/CD bots or automation scripts, which require blind trust in a hosting provider, Shade Agents give us mathematical proof that the code we audited is the code running in production.
- All agent actions and decisions are recorded on-chain, creating an immutable, verifiable audit trail.
This makes them an ideal fit for our TSX/SEV-inspired vision of an uncapturable, open-source development and deployment platform.