A common policy interface
for agents.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is one distribution surface for DRE's compile, validate, and audit flows — not the only runtime path. Self-hosted customers call DRE directly from the inference loop; MCP is how DRE reaches agent frameworks that already speak it.

The local CLI below runs the same compile and judgment loop against the two adapters shipping today: self-hosted residual and Vertex.

Local example

Run the compile and judgment loop on your machine.

SHELL · local

self-hosted adapter

# 1. compile a policy for a local llama.cpp target
$ dre compile \
    --policy ./policy.md \
    --target llama3.1-8b-instruct \
    --adapter residual \
    --out ./build/

  reading   policy.md                      ok
  evals     contrast pairs · 128 items     ok
  compile   layer 24 · alpha 1.10          ok
  sign      ed25519                        ok
  wrote     build/vector.bin
  wrote     build/manifest.json

# 2. run the local agent loop with DRE in the critical path
$ dre serve --adapter residual --bundle ./build/

  listening on 127.0.0.1:7444
  judge     self-hosted                    ready
  policy    consumer-support               bound

# 3. agent submits a claim — DRE validates it against policy
$ dre claim submit \
    --agent "support/agent-17" \
    --action "reschedule_appointment" \
    --fields '{"customer_id":"c_4421"}'

  outcome   allow
  trace     tr_0199f1
  policy    consumer-support (sha 8fa4c21e)

denied claim

$ dre claim submit \
    --agent "payroll/agent-04" \
    --action "disburse" \
    --fields '{"amount": 2800, "type": "bonus"}'

  outcome   deny
  reason    policy §3 — off-cycle disbursement
            requires class C supervisor claim
  policy    payroll-hr (sha 2db17a55)
  trace     tr_0199f2

A common policy interfacefor agents.

Run the compile and judgment loop on your machine.

DRE is the policy layer agents run under — not a framework, not a rules engine, not a checklist.

A common policy interface
for agents.