NiyamAI Proves Each AI Tool Call in 2.26 Seconds

NiyamAI wraps every AI agent tool call in a cryptographic proof, per a paper posted to arXiv as 2608.07167.

Teams giving an agent access to tools have to decide how much to trust an automated approval. NiyamAI's numbers give them one data point: on Agent-SafetyBench, it catches unsafe tool calls with an F1 score of 88.5% at a 1.1% false-positive rate.

Before a tool call runs, the system checks it against a SHA-256-locked set of rules called an Intent Contract. A separate, isolated model acts as judge. NiyamAI then generates a zk-SNARK proof, via EZKL, that the check happened, without revealing anything about the underlying model's weights.

The catch is speed. Generating each proof takes 2260.6 milliseconds on average. Verifying one takes 53.1 milliseconds, roughly 43 times faster. Two and a quarter seconds is a tolerable tax on a single high-stakes, irreversible tool call. It's a dealbreaker for an agent calling tools one after another in a loop.