Glossary.
The terms that define runtime governance for AI agents. New entries added as the category matures.
Terms · 8 entries
Agent analytics
The continuous analysis of AI agent actions, governance decisions, authority, cost, and outcomes — grounded in signed evidence.
Read entry →Delegation attribution
The practice of tracing every downstream AI agent action back to the human principal who authorized the delegation chain that produced it.
Read entry →Know Your Agent
The framework for signed identity, per-action authorization, continuous trust scoring, and cryptographic accountability for autonomous AI agents. Formalized in the KYA paper and implemented by Veldt.
Read entry →Know Your Principal
The generalization of Know Your Agent to every kind of autonomous actor: AI agents, service accounts, drones, robots, PLCs, and cyber-physical systems.
Read entry →Non-Human Identity
Portable, cryptographic identity for every non-human principal. AI agents, service accounts, and the machines they command.
Read entry →Only-tighten composition
A policy composition rule guaranteeing that every downstream delegation can only narrow the authority granted upstream, never widen it.
Read entry →Tamper-evident agent audit trail
A cryptographically chained record of every AI agent action where any modification is mathematically detectable, verifiable offline, without contacting the vendor.
Read entry →Trust score
A continuous, behavioral, per-action score for every principal, computed live from identity, authority, policy, and runtime signals. The signal runtime governance uses to allow, redact, throttle, escalate, or block.
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