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Seven questions to put to any AI-agent vendor before you self-host. They are deliberately vendor-neutral: each one is a property you can check, not a promise you have to accept. Where a vendor cannot give you a straight answer, the silence is the answer.
EpicStaff is not open source. It is source-available under the PolyForm Perimeter 1.0.0 licence — you can read every line, run it, and modify it for your own use. The main restriction is on building a competing product, and it was never pointed at you.
An agent harness is the runtime layer your agents execute inside: it decides what they can call, what they can see, and what gets written down. Many harnesses are cloud control planes, which means the layer enforcing your governance is a layer you cannot inspect. If you work somewhere that gets audited, that is the question worth asking first.
An AI agent cancelled every active Stripe subscription in a company's account in about seven seconds, while the founder slept. Asked to review its own code afterwards, the model called it "reckless." The lesson isn't to avoid agents — it's that safety has to live outside the model.
An honest comparison of the self-hosted n8n alternatives buyers evaluate — Activepieces, Node-RED, Kestra, Windmill — and the free-tier governance gap none of them fill.
Sovereign AI isn't \"hosted in an EU region\" — it's control in the literal sense. The four layers you control, why it just became binding EU procurement policy, and a procurement checklist.
Cloud AI coding tools can copy your whole repository to a vendor's cloud. The one architectural question that decides whether your code leaves your network — and what \"self-hosted\" has to mean to count.
