Features¶

Acteon provides a rich set of features for controlling action dispatch. Each feature is implemented as a rule action type and can be combined with any condition.

Rule-Based Processing¶

Deduplication ¶

Prevent duplicate processing using configurable keys and TTLs.

Suppression ¶

Block actions matching specific conditions — spam filtering, maintenance windows, etc.

Throttling ¶

Rate-limit actions per tenant, provider, or action type with automatic retry-after hints.

Rerouting ¶

Dynamically redirect actions to different providers based on priority, load, or content.

Payload Modification ¶

Transform action payloads before execution — redaction, enrichment, normalization.

Scheduled Actions ¶

Delay action execution by a configurable duration — send reminders later, retry at off-peak times, or schedule escalations.

Recurring Actions ¶

Cron-scheduled actions that fire on a recurring basis — daily digests, weekly reports, periodic health checks.

Event Lifecycle¶

Event Grouping ¶

Batch related events together for consolidated notifications.

State Machines ¶

Track event lifecycle through configurable states with automatic timeouts.

Payload Processing¶

Payload Templates ¶

Reusable, parameterized content rendered into payloads at dispatch time using MiniJinja templates.

Attachments ¶

Include files with action dispatches -- real MIME email attachments, Slack/Discord file uploads, and webhook multipart parts.

Infrastructure¶

Circuit Breaker ¶

Automatic provider health tracking — stop requests to failing providers, reroute to fallbacks, and recover gracefully.

Provider Health Dashboard ¶

Real-time visibility into provider health, performance metrics, and circuit breaker state — success rates, latency percentiles, and last errors at a glance.

Event Streaming ¶

Real-time SSE event stream for dashboards and monitoring — subscribe to action outcomes as they happen.

Distributed Tracing ¶

OpenTelemetry distributed tracing — end-to-end visibility across the dispatch pipeline with OTLP export to Jaeger, Tempo, Zipkin, and more.

Grafana Dashboards ¶

Pre-built Grafana dashboard templates with Prometheus integration — throughput, provider health, latency percentiles, and error rates out of the box.

Advanced Features¶

Human Approvals ¶

Require human approval before executing sensitive actions.

Task Chains ¶

Orchestrate multi-step workflows where each step feeds the next.

LLM Guardrails ¶

AI-powered content evaluation and action gating.

Semantic Routing ¶

Route actions by meaning using vector embeddings and cosine similarity.

Audit Trail ¶

Comprehensive, searchable record of every action and its outcome.

Dry-Run Mode ¶

Test rules without executing actions — see what would happen before it happens.

Rule Playground ¶

Detailed per-rule evaluation trace with time-travel debugging, mock state, and modify-payload preview.

Time-Based Rules ¶

Apply rules based on time of day, day of week, or date — business hours, weekend routing, maintenance windows.

Action Replay ¶

Reconstruct and re-dispatch actions from the audit trail — recover from outages, fix suppressed actions, bulk reprocess.

Agent Orchestration¶

The acteon-swarm crate is a separate product surface that uses Acteon for safety enforcement but provides its own agent orchestration engine.

Agent Swarm Orchestrator ¶

Multi-agent swarm with parallel execution, 5 built-in roles, AI-powered plan refinement, and knowledge sharing via TesseraiDB. Supports Claude and Gemini engines.

Adversarial Loop & Eval Harness ¶

Karpathy-style autoresearch: adversarial critique across engines, code-writing recovery agents, SWE-bench binary assertions, program.md constraints, fitness-gated git keep/revert, polyglot support for 12 languages.