Glossary
- Authority
- The right or permission for an agent to act on behalf of a principal within a bounded scope.
- Delegation
- The transfer of bounded authority from a principal to an agent, ideally with issuer, subject, scope, expiry, and revocation semantics.
- Scope
- The limits of an authority grant: task, resource, budget, jurisdiction, time, risk tier, or counterparty.
- Verifiable
- A property of an authority claim that can be checked through signatures, credentials, registry entries, or other machine-readable proofs.
- Accountable
- A property of an action chain that lets auditors or systems identify who granted authority, who exercised it, and which policy governed it.
- Revocation
- The narrowing, expiration, suspension, or withdrawal of delegated authority.
- Provenance
- The evidence chain behind a claim, credential, policy, model, tool call, or agent action.