AI agents now move faster than most teams can monitor or prove. The risk isn’t just a wrong answer - it’s the slow, silent erosion of trust when citations are vague, sources are stale, and no one can show how a conclusion was reached. In regulated environments, every fetch, cite, and hand-off must be defensible. The challenge is letting agents explore the live web without inviting misinformation, data residue, or audit paralysis.

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Policy-gated web research with line-level SourceSnips™ and exportable evidence packs - inside your VPC.

The Hidden Pitfalls of Search-Powered Agents

Modern agents can plan and execute, but ungated web access still trips them up. Provenance gaps turn confident answers into liability. Freshness issues surface mirrored or outdated posts that look new but aren’t. Compliance blind spots leave behind hard-to-audit residue. And most tools still cite at the page level, not the precise place your claim came from. If you can’t show where a fact came from and when it was valid, reviewers will slow or stop the workflow.

What We Built

Odyssey Scout is a governed web research engine that sits inside your agent runs. It enforces domain allowlists and recency windows, creates line-level citations with SourceSnips™, and exports complete evidence packs—while running in a zero-trust posture inside your VPC. Scout plugs into Agent Fleet for human-in-the-loop approvals and Control Tower for traceability, so research, review, and sign-off live in one governed flow.

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How Scout Works (5-Step Flow)

1. Set Guardrails Define domain tiers + recency (e.g., sec.gov, last 90 days).
2. Run the Agent Scout fetches only approved sources, dedupes mirrors, flags stale items.
3. Cite with Precision Every claim → SourceSnip™ (line + selector + hash).
4. Export Evidence Generate pack → attach to ticket or archive.
5. HITL & Operate Human approves → Control Tower logs immutable trail.

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Set guardrails. You define which domains are allowed and how fresh sources must be (for example, “last 90 days” for advisories). These rules are enforced at run time via MCP, not just in a static pre-crawl.

Run the agent. Scout retrieves only approved sources, collapses mirrors to a canonical link, and de-duplicates syndications so the record isn’t noisy.

Cite precisely. Every claim is pinned to a SourceSnips™ citation: the exact line or segment used, with URL, timestamp, and selector context evidence you can actually review.

Export the record. One click generates an evidence pack with permalinks, capture timestamps, integrity hashes, and an optional WARC snapshot reference for chain-of-custody.

Approve and operate. Reviewers use HITL checkpoints and Separation of Duties where required. Control Tower preserves the tamper-evident trail for audits and post-incident analysis.

What “Filters for Provenance” Means

Scout keeps only sources with verifiable origin and a clean chain-of-custody. In practice, that means tiered allowlists for government, standards bodies, and primary publishers; cross-checks of publish date vs. event date to avoid “fresh but wrong”; license awareness at export; and hashing of captured pages so you can prove nothing changed between research and review. When headless browsing is needed, sessions are non-persistent and live only long enough to capture approved snippets.

Where Scout Shines

GRC and Legal. Track regulations, advisories, and filings with citations that point to the exact lines relied on, then hand counsel an evidence pack instead of screenshots.

Risk and Security Operations. Confine open-source research to approved domains, attach artifacts to tickets, and keep a tamper-evident trail from first fetch to final disposition.

Procurement and Vendor Diligence. Bound research to recent windows, surface only sources you trust, and require an approval step before any downstream action.

What You’ll See in the Demo

We start with a strict allowlist to show how off-policy domains are refused while answers still resolve with SourceSnips™. The same query is then rerun under a 90-day time window to show how recency changes the result set and labeling. Finally, we export an evidence pack and attach it to a Control Tower record, then rotate the allowlist via MCP so you can watch the agent re-plan under policy without breaking the audit trail.

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Why This Is Different

Scout treats governance and evidence as part of the research step, not an afterthought. Policy gates are enforced in-flow; citations are snippet-level, not just page-level; integrity artifacts are created automatically; and everything runs inside your VPC with no external data retention. The outcome isn’t merely an answer it’s an answer you can defend.

What’s Next

We’re expanding Scout Streams for targeted, policy-gated monitoring of regulatory changes; adding deeper export-time guidance for license-restricted content; and publishing provenance templates so teams can start with sector-specific allowlists on day one.

Bottom Line

Governed web access, not just answers. Odyssey Scout lets agents move quickly and stay verifiable: approved domains, time-bounded sources, precise SourceSnips™, and evidence packs your reviewers can sign. That’s how you keep speed and keep trust.