Freshness
Recomputes whether approval, delegation, mandate, or chain authority is still fresh enough to support consequence-bearing action.
AUTHORITY CONTINUITY PRIMITIVE
Authority is temporal, not inherited.
A bounded runtime primitive for determining whether the authority permitting an action still legitimately exists right now.
Revocation
Checks whether revocations exist, whether revocation state is current, and whether propagation has been confirmed before action proceeds.
Delegation
Verifies chain survivability, subject presence, issuer continuity, actor status, temporal validity, and requested scope coverage.
Runtime authority boundary
Solves stale legitimacy inheritance.
Prior authority is not enough. A session, role, delegation, approval, or mandate may have been legitimate earlier and still be inadmissible now. This primitive evaluates authority at the moment consequence can form.
AUTHORITY_CONTINUOUS
AUTHORITY_DEGRADED
AUTHORITY_LOST
Built for
Multi-agent systems, enterprise orchestration, healthcare approvals, military/sovereign workflows, distributed execution environments, and any system where legitimacy can decay before execution.
Boundary
It does not grant legal authority, authenticate identity, replace policy, or execute actions. It produces a deterministic authority-continuity finding with a SHA-256 artifact hash.