Approval, Delegation & Permissions

Approval Registry

Searchable record of approved actions, exceptions, and review outcomes for autonomous operations.

Approval registries maintain the auditable record of which actions, exceptions, or workflow changes were approved for autonomous execution. They turn ad hoc human review into a durable control surface that operators can inspect before an agent acts again.

Three Pillars

Why This Becomes Necessary

Teams lose control when approvals happen in chat threads, tickets, or memory rather than in a durable record that later systems can query and enforce.

What a Solution Must Provide

A useful registry needs unique decision identifiers, scoped approvals, reviewer attestations, retention rules, revocation workflows, and machine-readable outputs for downstream controls.

Regulatory & Standards Angle

Exception handling only stands up under scrutiny when organizations can show which approvals were granted, what scope they covered, and whether they remained valid at runtime.

Related Primitives

Parent Hub

approvalbroker.com

Approval routing and delegation controls for high-risk agent actions

permissionbroker.com

Least-privilege permission brokering for agent tool and data access

delegationregistry.com

Delegation chain tracking and authority provenance for agent workflows

skillnotary.com

Attested skill certification and capability notarization for autonomous agents

Cross-Cluster Context

audit

oversightregistry.com

Oversight registry for compliance events and supervisory review

Relevant: EU AI Act Article 12 - Article 12 requires record-keeping that supports traceability, evidence preservation, and post-incident review. Source

Research: Distributional AGI Safety — Nenad Tomašev, Matija Franklin, Julian Jacobs, Sébastien Krier, Simon Osindero

“Human oversight of AI agent interactions should be established, and there should be multiple independent entities with the authority to monitor and investigate muilti-agent markets, identify and investigate incidents, and intervene when necessary. These could be certified professionals with sufficient training...”

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