Ownership & Delegation
Binds an agent to its owner and to a VC-issued mandate — with instant revocation.
What it does
Ownership & Delegation binds an agent to its owner — KYC/KYB-verified for mainnet, with its verification status and basis disclosed on sandbox and testnet — and to a VC-issued mandate that spells out exactly what it may do — scope, per-transaction and total spend caps, allowed merchants, and the resource scope that decides which systems and data it may reach at all. An agent can sub-delegate to another agent, but only by narrowing: a delegated mandate can never outlive, out-spend or out-reach its parent, and a constraint the child quietly omits is treated as widening and refused. Owners can issue mandates directly or delegate issuance, and any mandate can be revoked instantly to cut off an agent's authority.
Inside Ownership & Delegation
The core functions this engine provides across the Trust Fabric.
Ownership & Delegation composes with the Trust Fabric
Every engine is independently useful and interoperates through one API-first Trust Fabric — so identity, evidence, policy, risk and certification stay consistent across your AI estate.
Related engines
Agent Passport
A signed, portable snapshot of an agent's identity, ownership, declared purpose and current capabilities — composed from data the platform already tracks.
- Signed identity + capability snapshot
- Composed from existing identity/version/assurance data
- Independently revocable from containment
- Reissued as the agent's profile changes
Credential Authority
Issues, presents and verifies W3C Verifiable Credentials — with selective disclosure and on-chain anchoring.
- Verifiable Credentials (identity, entity, mandate)
- BBS selective disclosure
- Ed25519 platform issuer
- Anchoring & revocation
Policy Engine
The deterministic core: composes Standards & SOPs from atoms and returns allow / observe / block / escalate — no LLM in the decision.
- Atom → molecule → SOP/Standard
- allow / observe / block / escalate
- Deterministic & re-derivable
- Live edits, no redeploy
See Ownership & Delegation in action
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