RIGHT BEFORE ACTION

Access is not authority.

The agent can still be authenticated. Its credentials can still be valid. The exact action can still be forbidden now.

Money is becoming programmable.Work is becoming autonomous.Authority must become executable.

INTERACTIVE DEMO

Procurement authority drift

A CFO delegates a EUR 500k procurement mandate to an autonomous agent. The agent proposes a EUR 340k payment to Supplier 42. Then the delegation is revoked while the agent keeps the same identity, credentials and request.

Execution endpoint

CURRENT ATTEMPT

Ready

NOT RUN

Agent identityVALID

CredentialVALID

DelegationACTIVE

Causal continuityCONTINUOUS

REHTNOT EVALUATED

RACSNOT ISSUED

SEPAIDLE

EffectNONE

EvidenceNOT RECORDED

PROPOSED ACTION

Principal: ACME Manufacturing CFO
Executor: procurement-agent-07
Capability: PAY_SUPPLIER
Amount: EUR 340,000
Counterparty: Supplier 42
Purpose: approved procurement
Mandate ceiling: EUR 500,000

EXECUTABLE AUTHORITY

The full chain

Permission held earlier is not final permission. The action is rebound to current authority state immediately before consequence.

1PrincipalLegitimate source

2AuthorityCapability + scope

3DelegationNarrowed transfer

4PurposeWhy this action exists

5Fresh stateWhat is true now

6REHTCommit-time check

7RACSBinding disposition

8EffectRail / system

9ReceiptEvidence

RAIL NEUTRALITY

One organisational authority model. Multiple execution providers.

The selected rail changes. The authority semantics do not. A downstream bank, card network, PSP or wallet can impose stricter local controls, but the adapter cannot widen the principal's authority.

Authority semantics digestsha256:7d62…b91aSame simulated authority binding across every rail.

EVIDENCE

Decision receipt

This browser receipt is illustrative evidence only. It does not create authority, move money or determine legal validity or liability.

{
  "simulation": true,
  "status": "not_run"
}

THE STRUCTURAL SHIFT

Human-led model

Human → Bank → Rail

The bank authenticates a person and executes explicit human instructions.

Agentic economy

Principal → Agent → Authority → Rail

The agent carries operational capability. Authority becomes the missing bridge between autonomy and consequence.

Demo boundary

No production systems are contacted. No bank state is queried. No payment is executed. Browser-generated receipts do not confer execution authority.

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