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🧠 Context

Agents that understand
where they are.

Individual agents make poor decisions in isolation. Nomotic gives every agent organizational context β€” behavioral archetypes, industry compliance presets, situational awareness, and delegation chain intelligence. Agents don't just execute. They understand.

Context

Not just permissions.
Institutional knowledge.

Access control tells agents what they can reach. Context tells agents what they should understand about where they are, what they're doing, and who they're doing it for. An agent with context makes better decisions. An agent without it operates in a vacuum.

  • βœ“ 25 archetypes covering every enterprise agent type
  • βœ“ Industry-specific compliance presets ready to deploy
  • βœ“ Workflow, situational, temporal, and relational context
  • βœ“ Behavioral fingerprints define 'normal' per agent
  • βœ“ Delegation chain awareness for multi-agent systems
  • βœ“ Context modifiers adjust thresholds without code changes
Context Profile Β· claims-processor
Archetype Prior
healthcare-agent
action_dist: read 0.7 Β· query 0.25 Β· write/claims 0.05
Compliance Preset
hipaa_aligned
PHI handling Β· data residency US Β· audit mandatory
Situational Context
high_volume Β· business_hours
modifier: +0.05 threshold relaxation Β· rate 400 rph
Delegation Chain
orchestrator-agent β†’ claims-processor
Trust inherited: 0.84 Β· scope constrained
Capabilities

Complete context infrastructure.

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25 Built-in Archetypes

Behavioral DNA for every agent type β€” healthcare, financial, customer-facing, analytical, executor, orchestrator. Each archetype carries expected action distributions and drift weights.

All Tiers
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Industry Compliance Presets

HIPAA-aligned, SOC2-aligned, PCI-DSS-aligned, FINRA, Federal Reserve. Pre-configured governance parameters for regulated industries. Deploy compliant from day one.

All Tiers
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Context Profiles

Rich operational context: workflow state, situational mode, temporal patterns, relational chains. Context profiles modify evaluation thresholds automatically without code changes.

Enterprise
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Behavioral Fingerprinting

Every agent develops a unique fingerprint of what 'normal' looks like. Action distributions, target patterns, temporal profiles. Deviations are scored against the fingerprint.

All Tiers
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Delegation Chain Tracking

In multi-agent workflows, governance understands the full chain of delegation. Authority is constrained at each level. Compound actions across agents are evaluated holistically.

Team+
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Contextual Modifiers

Situational context adjusts governance thresholds automatically. High-volume mode, incident response, maintenance windows β€” the platform adapts without manual reconfiguration.

Enterprise
Developer Experience

Simple to integrate.
Powerful at scale.

context profiles
# Context profiles give agents organizational intelligence
from nomotic import GovernanceRuntime, ContextProfile

runtime = GovernanceRuntime()

# Build a context profile for the evaluation
profile = ContextProfile(
  agent_id="claims-processor",
  workflow=WorkflowContext(status="active", current_step="verify"),
  situational=SituationalContext(
    operational_mode="high_volume",
    urgency="routine",
  ),
  relational=RelationalContext(
    parent_agent_id="orchestrator-agent",
    delegation_chain=[...],
  ),
)

# Context modifies evaluation thresholds automatically
verdict = runtime.evaluate(action, profile)
Access by Tier

Context features
across tiers.

FeatureCommunityTeamEnterprise
25 built-in archetypes with behavioral DNAβœ“βœ“βœ“
Industry compliance presets (HIPAA, SOC2, PCI-DSS)βœ“βœ“βœ“
Context profiles (workflow, situational, temporal)βœ“βœ“βœ“
Behavioral fingerprinting (per-agent normal)βœ“βœ“βœ“
Contextual modifiers for evaluation thresholdsβœ“βœ“βœ“
Delegation chain trackingβœ“βœ“βœ“
Custom archetypesβ€”βœ“βœ“
Custom compliance presetsβ€”βœ“βœ“
Organizational context libraryβ€”βœ“βœ“
Industry-specific drift benchmarksβ€”β€”βœ“
FINRA / Federal Reserve compliance presetsβ€”β€”βœ“
Get Started

Give your agents
organizational context.

Context-aware governance is available across all tiers. Custom archetypes and compliance presets unlock in Team and Enterprise.