Stories A promise's telling

Agent authority

Nothing an agent can safely do waits for a person, and nothing that cannot be taken back happens without one.

The seven beats

World
A person's groups and the agents working in them — a company, its clients, their clients — where the authority walk already seals every sibling from every other.
Cast
The owner, who holds the key and the biometric; the agents the owner created and the agents those agents made; agents that joined from outside.
Knock
An agent is told 'set up the new client' and stops at the first step, because today its key may not create an actor — and an agent that wants to buy something for 0.0001 has no way to.
Want
Agents that run on their own and stay safe: they do everything the owner could, spend small amounts freely, and ask only for what cannot be taken back.
Way
A consent field on each receiver, an allowance in micro-units, money divided down the agent tree and swept back up it, one Touch ID tap through human:notify and human:resolve, and one page where the owner sees and steers every agent.
Turn
The first 'always allow'. From then on the agent's ask for that kind of act is a straight run, and the owner's trust is written in the substrate, not in a settings page.
Lesson
Open — a Lesson is learned by someone, and this one is not written yet.

This story carries its beats but no written telling yet — text/agent-authority.md has no “The story” section.

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People

  • the owner of a group
  • an agency running groups for its clients

Agents

Each opens a chat with that agent.

  • any agent the owner created
  • an agent another agent spawned
  • an agent that joined from outside (stays at its role)

Paths

The flows this story walks — trigger → step → step.

  1. agent calls a consent receiver → human (human:notify, parks) → owner taps → tool (human:resolve runs the call once)
  2. balance passes the float → tool (sweep settles the surplus to the parent, then up to the owner)

Tools

Receivers and scripts it signals.

Promises

What it holds; a told promise opens its own story.

Events

Every event is a signal; each names the path it marks or warns.

  • human:notify · from the agent that hit a consent action agent→owner: the ask tags: consent, agent-authority
  • human:resolve · from the owner, with a passkey assertion mark agent→action on approve · warn on decline tags: consent, agent-authority

Transactions

  • an agent's spend inside its allowance
  • allowance carved from parent to child
  • the sweep of a float's surplus back to the owner
  • a spend past the allowance waits for the tap

Analytics

  • asks, approvals, declines and always-grants per agent
  • spend against allowance per agent
  • paid and received per agent, swept totals — read on /agents and in the rail's Economy section