Glossary
The words these docs use, in one line each.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Agent | The AI program that proposes actions |
| Principal | The person or organisation the agent acts for |
| Mandate | Written authority: what the agent may do, for whom, until when, how much |
| Capability | A kind of action Delegrity knows how to check |
| Action | One specific thing an agent proposed |
| Policy | Your organisation's rules: allow, refuse, or ask a person |
| Decision | AUTHORIZED, AWAITING_APPROVAL, BLOCKED or EXPIRED |
| Grant | A signed, single-use permission to run exactly one approved action |
| Bridge | The part that checks the grant and runs the action, once |
| Connector | How the bridge talks to one business system |
| Read-back | Reading the system after a change, to confirm what really happened |
| Receipt | Signed proof of what was asked, who allowed it and what happened |
| Offer | An action a person approved and offered to your agent to accept |
| Observed | Recorded with its decision, but not controlled |
| Enforced | Controlled, with proof that nothing can go around Delegrity |
| Idempotency key | A label that makes a retry a replay, never a second action |
| Ambiguous | Sent to the system, with no answer yet on whether it acted |
See Core concepts for how they fit together.