Delegation Authority in Multi-Agent Systems
Delegation authority is the verified right of one actor to hand a task to another, carrying a bounded subset of its own permissions.
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The expansion
Engineering the concept requires three parts that most systems ship in part: an identity the receiving system can verify, a capability grant that is narrower than the delegator's own rights, and revocation that takes effect before the next call rather than at the next login.
BAND's homepage names authority assumed but never verified as a failure mode it addresses. This record credits the naming and withholds credit for the solving until it is exercised.
What it is not
- Not an API key: a shared secret carries no delegator and no bound.
- Not a role: a role describes a person, delegation describes an act.
Questions
How do you verify an agent's delegation authority?
You need a verifiable identity for the receiving agent, a capability grant narrower than the delegator's own rights, and revocation that takes effect before the next call.