Governance

Decision Tokens Explained: Why Agent Governance in Banking Needs Signed Approvals

A decision token is a signed approval that an identified actor authorised a specific agent action, scoped to one operation and one time window. Why banking agents need them.

• governance
• management-layer

What "On Whose Authority?" Means When the Actor Is an Agent

Every consequential action has an authority behind it. When the actor is an AI agent, delegated authority is where accountability lives — or breaks.

• governance
• management-layer
• agents

Runtime Policy Enforcement: Why Governance After Execution Is Not Governance

By the time a policy engine reviews an action, the action already happened. Why runtime AI governance means enforcement before execution, not audit after.

• governance
• grid
• management-layer

The CISO's Blind Spot: Agents Acting Without a System of Record

Your CISO tracks every human action but zero agent actions. AI agent governance needs a system of record — not a debugging log.

• governance
• synthetic-workforce
• management-layer
• grid

UCAN Tokens and Scoped Authority for AI Agents

AI agents need permissions that survive delegation, expire on time, and can't be forged. UCAN tokens are how scoped authority works for autonomous agents.

• management-layer
• synthetic-workforce
• agents
• grid

Audit Trails Are Not Logs

• grid
• governance