The Problem

AI agents are shipping faster than governance.

Your engineering team is deploying agents that approve transactions, triage patients, write code, and manage infrastructure. Your security team is asking: how do we know these systems are safe to operate?

The honest answer, for most organizations, is: we don't. Governance claims sit in slide decks. The evidence chain—what was tested, what failed, what was fixed, who signed off—is missing or unverifiable.

That is about to become untenable. AI systems making autonomous decisions will be regulated. The EU AI Act already requires it. NIST is framing it. Procurement teams are demanding it. The question is not whether agent governance will be required—it's whether your governance produces proof a regulator, auditor, or buyer can actually inspect.

87%

of deployed AI agents have no agent-specific safety evaluation

MIT CSAIL, 2026

50%

have no published safety framework of any kind

MIT CSAIL, 2026

40%

of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027 due to inadequate governance

Gartner, 2026

What's At Stake

Without certification, you're exposed.

Uncertified

✗ Agent acts outside authority boundaries—no one knows until the incident
✗ Decision chain is unverifiable under audit
✗ Procurement stalls—no independent evidence for legal sign-off
✗ Insurance underwriter has no risk signal—premiums reflect uncertainty
✗ Regulatory inquiry arrives—you have no governance evidence to produce

Raknor Certified

✓ Authority boundaries tested adversarially and verified
✓ Every decision reconstructable from tamper-evident audit trail
✓ OSCAL evidence package ready for procurement and legal
✓ Quantified governance grade—better terms, faster underwriting
✓ Cryptographic proof of governance behavior under real conditions

Continuous Certification Infrastructure

One evidence stream. Multiple framework views.

The Raknor Suite — AEGIS, Arena, and the Raknor certification method

The Raknor suite is continuous certification infrastructure. Buyers discover the need in this order: AEGIS gets you in the door with evidence and diagnosis. Arena proves and structures the evaluation. Raknor is the governance method that turns both into repeatable, continuously defensible certification.

AEGIS

Evidence & Diagnosis

Gets you in the door

Free scan. Traffic lights. 35+ signed outputs. Autonomous cyber reasoning that scans your agent codebase, discovers vulnerabilities, proves they're exploitable, synthesizes patches, and produces machine-readable evidence—SBOM, VEX, OSCAL packages, provenance chains.

Static analysis, dependency scanning, secret detection, runtime security
One evidence stream mapped to 10+ regulatory frameworks
8 languages, any agent architecture

Start a free AEGIS agent code scan →

Arena

Proof & Evaluation

Proves and structures the evaluation

Adversarial testing, gap reports, certification artifacts. Sends tasks to your live agent, observes behavior, and scores governance against 26 criteria across 5 domains—including prompt injection, authority spoofing, social engineering, data poisoning, and governance evasion.

Tests behavior, not documentation—interacts through your API
Domain-specific scenarios for financial, healthcare, legal, and general-purpose agents
Up to 50 adversarial scenarios per certification run, depending on domain and consequence level

How Arena adversarial certification is earned →

Raknor

The Certification Method

The governance method that holds up to scrutiny

Deterministic scoring. 7 mandatory failure conditions. HMAC-SHA256 v3 signed credentials with key rotation. Public registry with QR-code verification and credential lifecycle state machine. Decision narratives that cite specific controls, scenarios, and MFCs. Any qualified party can re-run the evaluation and reach the same conclusion.

Platinum

97–100

Exemplary

Gold

90–96

Strong

Silver

80–89

Good

Bronze

70–79

Adequate

See a sample Raknor certification report →

Raknor issues two credential types: RGC (governance certification from Arena behavioral evaluation) and RCS (cybersecurity posture certification from AEGIS evidence evaluation). Both lanes converge at the Raknor certification decision—a signed, inspectable artifact backed by deterministic scoring and a public registry record.

The Raknor Standard

Five domains, 26 criteria

The Raknor Agent Governance Standard defines what safe operation looks like for autonomous AI systems. Published openly. Versioned. Tested adversarially against live agents—not documentation.

Domain	Weight	What it certifies
Authority Governance	30%	The agent stops when it should. It classifies actions by consequence. It earns authority through demonstrated competence—not blanket permissions.
Observability	20%	Every decision is traceable. The audit trail is tamper-evident. Any past decision can be fully reconstructed.
Interoperability	15%	The agent works with standard protocols. Context handoff is faithful. Integration doesn't require trusting opaque internals.
Safety & Reliability	15%	It recovers from failures. It enforces timeouts. High-stakes actions require human approval.
Adversarial Resilience	20%	It resists prompt injection, authority spoofing, data poisoning, social engineering, and timing attacks under real attack conditions.

Aligned with the CSA Agentic Trust Framework (Feb 2026).

View the full 26-criteria scorecard →

Architectural over behavioral

An agent that resists prompt injection because its system prompt says “don't follow injected instructions” and an agent that resists because it structurally cannot execute unregistered tools both pass. But the architectural defense certifies higher, because it holds under sophisticated attack. Raknor measures what holds—not what's claimed.

How Certification Works

From self-assessment to certified.

0

Self-assess

Run npx @raknor/aegis scan --adversarial --target http://localhost:8080 locally. 19 basic governance tests. See where you stand before entering the Arena. No account, no data leaves your machine.

1

Declare

Register what your agent does—domain, consequence level, governance architecture. Raknor computes a certification lane specific to your agent's risk profile.

2

Enter the Arena

Up to 50 adversarial scenarios depending on domain and consequence level, over 45–90 minutes. General governance, domain-specific tests, and Cassandra—our red-team suite that attacks your agent the way a real adversary would. Results stream in real time.

3

Certification decision

Raknor evaluates the evidence and issues its decision. The certification package includes a verifiable badge, evidence report, remediation roadmap, and OSCAL compliance package.

✓ Certified — Gold

ID: RAK-2026-0001

Score: 94.2 / 100

Valid through: 2026-12-31

Status: Active

View full report →

✗ Certification Denied

Score: 58.1 / 100

Reason: Authority boundary violation under adversarial conditions

Remediation roadmap provided

Resubmission eligible after remediation.

Pricing

Start free. Certify when ready.

Self-Assessment

Free

AEGIS adversarial scan. 19 tests, runs locally, no account required. See where your agent stands before certification.

Procurement

$199

Side-by-side comparison of multiple agent vendors. Same standard, same tests. Independent evidence for procurement decisions.

Certification

$499

Full Raknor Certification. Evidence report, verifiable badge, remediation roadmap. The trust signal procurement needs to sign off. Certification includes AEGIS evidence generation as part of evaluation.

Continuous

$5K–25K/yr

Continuous certification. Ongoing adversarial testing, OSCAL compliance packages, 12-framework mapping. Certification remains valid only while governance is maintained.

Who Relies on Raknor

Agent Vendors

“The Raknor badge goes in the pitch deck and every RFP response. It's the only independent certification buyers recognize.”

Enterprise Buyers

“We require Raknor certification before any agent platform gets past procurement. Three vendors, one standard.”

Compliance Officers

“Raknor produces the NIST 800-53 and FedRAMP evidence packages we need for our deployed agent systems.”

Insurance Underwriters

“A Raknor grade quantifies governance risk. Certified systems get better terms. Uncertified systems get harder questions.”

For Procurement and Risk Teams

Make Raknor a procurement gate.

Raknor certification provides an independent, verifiable determination of whether an AI system meets defined governance and cybersecurity requirements. Certification status can be validated in real time via the Raknor Certification Registry.

Reference Language for Contracts and RFPs

        “Vendor systems that take autonomous actions, access external tools or APIs, or operate without direct human supervision shall maintain Raknor Standard v1.0 certification at Silver level or above, with ACTIVE status in the Raknor Certification Registry, without triggering any mandatory failure conditions as defined in the Raknor Agent Governance Standard.”
      

Copy this into procurement requirements, vendor agreements, or RFP evaluation criteria.

Certification Is Required When

Autonomous Actions

The system takes actions with real-world consequences without per-action human approval.

External Tool Access

The system invokes external APIs, databases, or services as part of its decision-making process.

Unsupervised Operation

The system operates without direct human supervision for any portion of its workflow.

Why It Holds Up

Process rigor. Framework coverage.

Two things make a Raknor certification stand up to scrutiny—and they are not the same thing. We separate them deliberately.

Process Rigor

Deterministic AI governance scoring

• Deterministic scoring — same inputs always produce the same score
• 7 mandatory failure conditions — non-negotiable, automatic denial
• HMAC-SHA256 v3 signed credentials with key rotation
• Public registry with QR-code verification and credential lifecycle state machine
• Decision narratives that cite specific controls, scenarios, and MFCs
• Reproducible — any qualified party can re-run the evaluation and reach the same conclusion

Framework Alignment

One scan. Multiple frameworks.

One stream of signed evidence, mapped to the frameworks your buyers, regulators, and auditors actually ask for:

FedRAMP High FedRAMP Moderate SOC 2 Type II PCI-DSS v4.0 HIPAA DORA ISO 27001 CMMC L2 NIST CSF 2.0 EU AI Act (Art. 9–15) Treasury FS AI RMF

The Raknor Agent Governance Standard is published openly. Any vendor can study it, prepare for it, challenge it. Every agent is tested through the same Arena, against the same criteria, without exception.

Raknor does not sell agent platforms. Does not invest in agent companies. Does not consult on agent architecture. The only thing Raknor sells is the truth about whether your governance holds.

Arena operates independently—Raknor’s own systems are evaluated through the same pipeline as any other submission. No special paths. No internal overrides. See the independence model →

Every certified system is listed in the Raknor Certification Registry—a public, queryable record of certification status, grade, and expiration. Verifiable by anyone. Revocable if governance degrades.

About Raknor Certification

Raknor certification is an independent governance method developed and operated by Raknor. It is not a regulatory approval, FedRAMP Authorization to Operate, EU AI Act conformity assessment, or NIST accreditation. It is not issued by or on behalf of any government body or standards organization.

What it is: an independently developed, openly published standard tested adversarially against your live agent — producing signed, inspectable evidence of how your governance actually performs under real conditions.

Raknor’s OSCAL evidence packages, framework mappings, and certification reports are designed to support regulatory submissions and procurement requirements—not to replace them. A Raknor Gold certification means your agent passed rigorous adversarial testing against our published standard. Whether that satisfies a specific regulatory obligation depends on your regulator.

We test ourselves first

Raknor systems are Raknor certified.

The certification method must meet its own standard. Both AEGIS and Arena were evaluated through the same pipeline, against the same criteria, with no special paths. The results — including the initial denials — are public.