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The Agent's Permission Moved Into the Runtime

A governance paper derives five controls for ephemeral, model-directed agents and reports four running in private pilots.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-30-007
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Summary

A governance paper derives five controls for ephemeral, model-directed agents and reports four running in private pilots.

The proposed primitives are discovery, identity, governance, attestation and supply chain. The implementation mediates actions before execution, authorizes them against a tenant vocabulary and records them in a signed hash-linked ledger. Its authors also name the costs: enforcement sits on the critical path, identity needs a workload sidecar and fail-closed mediation converts outages into denial. Four primitives are in private pilots; the fifth remains separate tooling.

Why it matters

A governance paper derives five controls for ephemeral, model-directed agents and reports four running in private pilots.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. A governance paper derives five controls for ephemeral, model-directed agents and reports four running in private pilots.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-30-007

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.26696arXiv · primary research

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