Identity & Delegation

Agent-to-Agent Security

Authority narrows as agents delegate, never expands.

In multi-agent systems, trust cannot automatically propagate. Xybern constrains authority at every delegation boundary, so one agent can never grant another more power than it holds itself, and every delegated action is sealed to the vault.

Intersect, do not inherit

When one agent delegates to another, the granted authority is the intersection of what the source may delegate and what the target may accept. It is always a subset, never an expansion.

  • Delegated authority scoped to the task
  • A child agent can never exceed its parent
  • The delegating agent's limits always apply

Time-bound and revocable

Delegated authority can expire with the task, the session or a defined window, and can be narrowed or revoked at any point without waiting on the downstream agent.

  • Expiry with the task, session or window
  • Revoke or narrow mid-flight
  • Changes enforced at the intercept

Provable lineage

Every downstream action stays traceable through the full delegation chain, so you can always answer which authority permitted it and how it was passed on.

  • The complete authority chain is recorded
  • Each hop sealed to the Provenance Vault
  • Offline-verifiable after the fact

More in Identity & Delegation.

Related capabilities on the same authorisation layer. Every one is enforced before an action runs and sealed to the Provenance Vault.

1.0Agent Identity

Every agent, identified and accountable.

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2.0Agent RBAC

Roles and least privilege for every agent.

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3.0External Agent Federation

Trust external agents without trusting their authority.

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4.0Credential Lifecycle

Issue, scope, and revoke in a cascade.

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See Agent-to-Agent Security in your workflow.

Put one workflow behind Xybern and watch every agent action authorised, and sealed to the vault.