AFFIXIO
Agent authorisation
Agent authorisation at the policy boundary
Agent authorisation belongs at a policy boundary, not buried in prompts or post-hoc reviews. AffixIO evaluates policy and returns ML-DSA-65 signed allow or deny before consequential actions run.
Definition
An agent authorisation policy boundary is the verify step that must pass before an agent may execute a consequential action.
Field note. Policy enforced only inside the agent process disappears when the model ignores guardrails. Move authorisation outside the runtime.
Put the gate in one place
Introduce AffixIO verify as the policy boundary for tools, payments, and sensitive retrieval. Downstream systems trust the signed outcome.
Agent authorisation product pages describe capabilities and integration. MCP and payment sectors show concrete placements.
Ownership model
Security defines policy classes. Product maps actions to classes. Engineering wires verify. Audit retains Merkle refs. That split keeps the boundary honest.
Deny must be a first-class path with human escalation where needed.
Operational detail for agent policy authorisation
For agent policy authorisation, provision sandbox circuits that mirror production predicates before you expose live agent traffic. Capture sample allow and deny payloads for regression tests.
Keep identity and rich attributes with the issuer. Verifiers receive outcomes and Merkle metadata only. Sync audit refs to your SIEM or order store after the gate returns.
Tool-call risk
Authorisation smeared across the stack
When policy lives in prompts, SDK wrappers, and human review queues, no single place owns allow or deny.
No single gate
Different tools enforce different informal rules.
Post-hoc only
Reviews happen after damage.
Unclear ownership
Platform, security, and product disagree on who decides.
Deny-code mapping
Agent authorisation at the policy boundary, not in the runtime
Agent runtimes should not decide their own authorisation scope. Wire policy evaluation to AffixIO issue at satisfaction and verify at the boundary before side effects.
Declare the boundary
Which actions require verify.
Map policies
Agent classes to scopes.
Wire AffixIO verify
Pre-exec on those actions.
Operate deny
Escalation and audit.
Pre-flight checks
Readiness checks for agent policy authorisation
- Publish the list of gated actions.
- Remove prompt-only authorisation as sole control.
- Assign owners for policy, wiring, and audit.
- Test deny escalation.
- Read /agent-authorisation/.
Procurement FAQ
Questions on agent policy authorisation
Can policy stay in the LLM?
Not as the sole control. Use AffixIO for signed decisions.
One boundary or many?
One logical boundary, possibly multiple verify call sites.
Payments included?
Yes. Payment permission is a policy boundary action.
Docs?
/agent-authorisation/ and /docs
Compliance links
Pages that support agent policy authorisation
AI agents
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Map agent policy authorisation
Exercise policy circuits in sandbox, then attach verify to every tool call and payment hook.