Governed AI Call Lifecycle

Layers 1-4 are bidirectional control systems for inbound requests and outbound responses.

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Governed AI Call Lifecycle A layered architecture diagram with clickable regions for consumer, edge security, gateway, governance, runtime, policy, observability, and backend systems. Governed AI Call Lifecycle Layers 1–4 are bidirectional control systems for inbound requests and outbound responses. Observability / FinOps / Audit / Compliance telemetry across all layers 1. Consumer Zone apps · users · agents · APIs All AI traffic Secure response delivery 2. Edge / Perimeter Security network protection · TLS · ingress / egress controls Perimeter-validated traffic Metered & routed response 3. API Gateway Enforcement identity · routing · quotas · budgets · metering Policy / Control Plane control-plane only model entitlements · allow-lists · routing policy · tool approvals · access contracts Entitled & metered request Policy-approved AI response 4. Prompt, Data & Output Governance prompt defense · data policy · output validation Policy-cleared execution request Unvalidated model / tool result 5. AI Runtime & Execution runtime · deployed models · orchestration · MCP tools 6. Resource / Knowledge / Backend Systems backend systems · knowledge graph · ontology · RAG / search · curated data MCP / tool calls