BARRIE, Ontario - TelAve -- BARRIE, Ontario — Pinnacle Tech Projects today announced Project Starfish, an open-source governance layer that controls what autonomous AI agents are allowed to do before they act. Built in Canada and released under the Apache-2.0 license, it gives organizations a verifiable way to supervise AI agents without the cost of enterprise compliance suites.

As businesses deploy AI agents that call tools, move data, and act on their own, most have no independent control layer over those actions. "Everyone ships skills; nobody ships governance," said Scott Holmes, Founder of Pinnacle Tech Projects and the project's maintainer.

Project Starfish uses a deny-by-default architecture: every action an agent proposes must be authorized by a Policy Decision Point, and anything not explicitly permitted is refused. It separates proposer and approver roles so an agent cannot approve its own actions, records every decision in hash-chained audit logs, verifies skills through signed manifests, and uses egress gates to stop tainted data from leaving a system. Its governance core is roughly 3,600 lines of TypeScript with zero third-party dependencies and 449 conformance tests.

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The release answers a Canadian need: organizations face tightening AI regulation but often lack enterprise compliance budgets. Because Project Starfish is open source and self-hostable, teams can verify how it governs their agents and run it themselves.

Project Starfish is available now — version 0.11 on npm as "project-starfish," source on GitHub at https://github.com/Azerax/Starfish, details at https://projectstarfish.ca — with a 1.0 release in progress.

About Pinnacle Tech Projects
Pinnacle Tech Projects brings the magic of AI to business, from an AI voice assistant that answers every call to Project Starfish, its flagship AI governance platform. Based in Barrie, Ontario, Pinnacle implements practical, real AI that helps businesses grow while staying firmly in command. Learn more at pinnacletechprojects.com.

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Pinnacle Tech Projects
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