Agent Identity + Agent Guard

Overview

Identity establishes who or what is acting. Guard evaluates whether a requested tool action may proceed under current policy, permission, risk, and approval evidence.

• Verify signed identity claims.
• Use exact tool permissions such as tool:read_record.
• Keep authority mission-bound and time-bound.
• Deny or require approval before consequential execution.
• Retain auditable decision context.

Production checklist

• Keep credentials in a server-side secret store.
• Set explicit cost, latency, privacy, provider, and regional constraints.
• Capture route and evaluation evidence for incident review.
• Test timeouts, cancellation, fallback, and denied-policy paths before rollout.