What it is
Portarium is validation middleware for AI agent workflows. It sits between an agent’s outputs and the real-world actions those outputs trigger — checking, transforming, escalating, and logging before anything actually happens.
The problem it solves: most AI agents fail not because the model is wrong, but because nothing catches the model when it’s wrong. No output validation, no human escalation path, no audit trail. Portarium adds that reliability layer to any agent workflow without requiring you to rewrite the agent itself.
How it works
Each workflow step passes through a validation pipeline:
- Schema check — output matches the expected shape (Zod-based)
- Policy check — output satisfies operator-defined rules (e.g. “never delete more than 5 records”, “always require approval for >$500 actions”)
- Approval gate — high-stakes actions pause for human review before proceeding
- Audit log — inputs, outputs, decisions, and timestamps written to an immutable trace
Why it matters
90% of agentic deployments fail within 30 days. The failure pattern is almost always the same: the agent works in demos, breaks on edge cases in production, and there’s no trace of what happened. Portarium makes failures visible, catchable, and reversible before they become incidents.
Relationship to OpenClaw
Portarium is the governance layer. OpenClaw is the agent runtime. Portarium validates what OpenClaw does before it reaches production systems.