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The Shape of Delegated Authority

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Maintainer: Daniel Hardman · 2026-07-11 · checked 2026-10-15

A 2026 paper by Daniel Hardman proposing a model of delegated authority that makes the category of a delegate's act machine-checkable (by telos, effect and kind of state) and lets a stranger verify authority without consulting its issuer. It argues that access control, action taxonomies and decentralized identity each keep only part of what the law of agency long held together, and draws on KERI and ACDC mechanisms for identity and verification. It is for architects of authorization for human and AI agents.

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