I-D Action: draft-zagarella-autonomy-governor-01.txt

Internet-Draft draft-zagarella-autonomy-governor-01.txt is now available.

   Title:   Pre-Action Risk-Graded Assurance for Agent Interactions
   Author:  Roberto Antonio Zagarella
   Name:    draft-zagarella-autonomy-governor-01.txt
   Pages:   12
   Dates:   2026-08-23

Abstract:

   Governance of autonomous agents today is largely expressed as
   boundary enforcement: an action is permitted or blocked at the point
   it is attempted, per a policy evaluated at that boundary.  As agents
   span heterogeneous action types — authenticating a human, executing a
   delegated task, selecting a computational resource — a single,
   uniform way to express "how much assurance this action requires,
   before it proceeds" is missing.

   This document describes an interface for pre-action, risk-graded
   assurance: a policy stage that, before an agent action proceeds,
   derives an assurance requirement from a risk signal and expresses
   that requirement in a domain-appropriate form, recording the decision
   in an audit record and optionally binding it to a verified human
   root.  It defines the interface and the audit-record fields, not any
   particular risk-scoring method or control law.

   This document also describes the autonomy-asymmetry control law: a
   feedback loop coupling assurance requirements to VERIFY-phase pass
   rates, with fast-down (immediate elevation on failure) and slow-up
   (hysteresis- governed relaxation on sustained success) asymmetry.
   The iteration governor is described as the per-packet instance of
   this control law, and the phase-seal chain as its sensor.

   This document is offered as input to the proposed AUDIT working
   group's work on authorization state over time and action provenance.

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