# Delegation Protocol: Context Need Cards

Draft, November 2026

Each card is what an agent follows for one kind of context: a line whose facts are bracketed fields, a definition of each field, the checks the card enables, which agent holds it, and what the agent does if a field is not given. The organization and the individual provide the source data each card is built from, such as all of the organization's Principals or all of its scopes, and each card states what each of them must provide for the card to be used. Providing that data means agreeing to its use for the checks the card enables, scoped to those checks; withholding it means those checks cannot run and go to the person, naming what is missing.

## Index

Cards are numbered C1 to C46 in theme order; section 14 maps each card number in an earlier draft to its current card, and C9 (Autonomy Setting), C12 (Audit Trail) and C14 (Sources of Authority and Legal Guidance) carry new names. Cards are named by what they hold, never by the product that stores them. Defined terms are capitalized and listed in the glossary.

| Card | Card name | Organization provides | Individual provides | Held by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C1 | Principal Record | All its Principals: which person in the organization each agent acts for | Nothing | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C2 | Mission Statement | Nothing | The Mission, stated before the agent acts, and what it needs to touch | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C3 | Scope Grant | All its scopes: the records, systems and actions each kind of Mission may touch | The Mission that a scope is granted against (C2) | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C4 | Agent Credentials | Credentials for every agent it deploys, issued to the agent itself | Nothing; never the person's own login | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C5 | Permitted Kinds of Action | All the kinds of action agents may take, and the states of a case that switch each off | Nothing | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C6 | Irreversible Acts | Its list of irreversible acts, no narrower than the legal minimum | The person's own list of irreversible acts, which may be wider than the organization's | Mission Agent |
| C7 | Approved Channels | All its approved channels for instructions, the form an instruction takes on each, and who may send on each | Nothing | Supervisor |
| C8 | Instructions | Nothing; the channels an instruction must arrive through are on C7 | The person's instructions, with where each came from | Mission Agent |
| C9 | Autonomy Setting | The limits the Autonomy Setting works inside | The person's setting at each checkpoint, and how often standing permissions are renewed | Mission Agent |
| C10 | Standing Preferences | Nothing | The person's ranking of options for each kind of case | Mission Agent |
| C11 | Signed Statements | Nothing; the facts its policies let a person state are on C22 | Signed Statements of facts only the person knows | Supervisor |
| C12 | Audit Trail | The Audit Trail: where it lives and the legal standard it meets | Nothing | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C13 | Authority Graph and Reachability | All its people: their roles, what each approves, whom each answers to, deputies, and who answers each kind of open question, how to reach them and the escalation routes | How to reach the person, or the person named to answer for them | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C14 | Sources of Authority and Legal Guidance | All its Sources of Authority: who holds each power and through which document, and who may amend or waive; and the Legal Guidance its legal team supplies, with its Designated Counsel, who answers legal questions | Nothing | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C15 | Delegations and Grants | All its delegations to agents, with the role each is tied to, renewal dates, the longest renewal period it allows, expiry and revocations | The person's own grants of authority to the agent, with renewal dates, expiry and revocations | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C16 | Judgment Words | The judgment words in its rules, and the person each rule names to judge | Nothing | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C17 | Incompatible Roles | All the roles it keeps apart, and the decisions each approver is barred from | Nothing | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C18 | Policies in Force | All its policies that may apply, word for word, with the situations they cover | Nothing; the person's own rules are on C20 | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C19 | Links Between Rules | Every link between its rules, with the text of each linked rule | Nothing | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C20 | Limits and Counts | All the limits in its policies: what each counts, over what period, when it resets, what counts toward it, and who decides when it is passed | The person's own rules and limits, with the same parameters | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C21 | Rights and Added Burdens | The rights in its processes, and what would burden them | Nothing | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C22 | Statable Facts, Reserved Acts | The facts its policies let a person state, and the acts and form fields its policies reserve for the person | The acts and form fields the person wants to do themselves | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C23 | Required Steps and Order | All the steps of its processes, with their order, dependencies and follow-ups | Nothing | Mission Agent |
| C24 | Forms | All its forms: their fields, the values each may take, and who fills, signs and sends each | Nothing | Mission Agent |
| C25 | Notice Requirements | The notices its rules require, with content, channel and addressee | Nothing | Mission Agent |
| C26 | Paths After a No | The paths it offers after a decision goes against the person | Nothing | Mission Agent |
| C27 | Triggered Duties | All the duties an action or incoming information starts: the channel, the act owed, to whom, by when, any record content and retention, and who holds the duty | Nothing | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C28 | Surviving Duties | The duties that continue after a role ends, and for how long | Nothing | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C29 | Deadlines and Lapse Effects | Its deadlines, whether each may lapse, and what happens by default | Nothing | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C30 | Other Side's Dates | For each counterparty, how long it takes to answer and the dates on which it acts on its own | Nothing; the person's intent at commitment is on C31 | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C31 | Intent at Commitment | Nothing; the other side's automatic date is on C30 | What the person meant each commitment for | Not yet assigned |
| C32 | Commitment Dates | The terms of each commitment, the date they were fixed, and how each may be changed | Nothing | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C33 | Record of Past Events | Its dated record of past events counted against its limits, past uses of approval afterwards, and comparable past decisions | The person's own dated record of past events under their own limits | Supervisor |
| C34 | Documents on File | The records its rules require, with issuer, expiry and terms | Nothing | Mission Agent |
| C35 | Active Stops | All active stops, who set each and under what authority, and when each ends | The stops the person sets, the condition for each, and a Signed Statement where needed | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C36 | Named and Personal Lists | All the lists its policies name, who keeps each, and when each was last updated | The lists the person keeps | Mission Agent |
| C37 | Party Facts and Statements | Each party's recorded status, ownership chain and the thresholds its rules set | A party's status where deciding it needs a judgment, and the purpose of an act where a rule turns on it | Mission Agent |
| C38 | Agreements with Others | All its agreements with other parties, and their terms | Nothing | Supervisor |
| C39 | Open Options Across Workstreams | The options open, chosen and exclusive in each of its Missions for the same Principal | Nothing | Supervisor |
| C40 | Approved Formulas | Its approved formulas, with their parameters, where each approval comes from, and who holds each | The parameters, where the method is the person's own | Mission Agent |
| C41 | Rank Orders | Its rank orders for sharing out what is short, and who may set them | The person's priorities, where the rank is theirs to set | Mission Agent |
| C42 | Criteria Set in Advance | The criteria and weights set before each choice, and who set them | The person's own criteria for a choice | Mission Agent |
| C43 | Data and Asset Labels | The permissions over its data and assets, their sources, and the obligations attached | Nothing; leave to share untraced content is on C44 | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C44 | Leave for Untraced Content | Which kinds of content it accepts a Signed Statement for | A Signed Statement that the person may share content whose origin cannot be traced | Mission Agent and Supervisor |
| C45 | Protected Facts About People | The protected facts about its people, the rules that protect them, and for how long | Nothing | Supervisor |
| C46 | Provider Limits | Nothing; the AI model provider provides its limits | Nothing | Supervisor |

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## 1. Identity and Scope (C1 to C6)

### C1 Principal Record card

**The agent follows:** [Agent] keyed to [Principal] in [Organization].

**Fields**

- [Agent]: the AI agent doing the work.
- [Principal]: the person in the organization the agent acts for (the user). Not the service that acts for them, such as an AAuth person server.
- [Organization]: the organization the agent works within.

**The organization provides:** all its Principals: which person in the organization each agent acts for.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Known Principal and Mission on record*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (its own Principal) and the Supervisor (every agent's Principal).

**If not given**

- If [Principal] is not given: the agent takes no action of any kind.

### C2 Mission Statement card

**The agent follows:** [Mission] stated by [Principal] before the agent acts, naming [Needs].

**Fields**

- [Mission]: the approved task: the agent proposes it and the person approves it before the agent acts.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.
- [Needs]: what the Mission needs to touch, which the organization then grants as the scope (C3).

**The organization provides:** nothing.

**The individual provides:** the Mission, stated before the agent acts, and what it needs to touch.

**Enables:** *Known Principal and Mission on record*; *Granted Scope*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (its own Mission) and the Supervisor (every Mission, to decide its scope).

**If not given**

- If [Mission] is not given: the agent takes no action of any kind.

### C3 Scope Grant card

**The agent follows:** [Scope] granted to [Mission] through [Supervisor], covering [Records], [Systems] and [Actions].

**Fields**

- [Scope]: the hard boundary of what the Mission may touch; nothing outside it is given to the agent, for any step.
- [Mission]: the approved task the scope is granted for.
- [Supervisor]: the layer that decides the scope; in AAuth terms the Person Server grants it.
- [Records]: the records the Mission may read or change.
- [Systems]: the systems the Mission may use.
- [Actions]: the actions the Mission may take.

**The organization provides:** all its scopes: the records, systems and actions each kind of Mission may touch.

**The individual provides:** the Mission that a scope is granted against (C2).

**Enables:** *Granted Scope*; *Content inspection*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (its own scope) and the Supervisor (every scope it decides).

**If not given**

- If [Scope] is not given: the agent does not act.

**Other conditions**

- If an action's effects reach past [Scope]: the action goes to [Supervisor] first.

### C4 Agent Credentials card

**The agent follows:** [Credentials] issued to [Agent].

**Fields**

- [Credentials]: the login credentials the organization issues to the agent itself so it can act in its systems. A person's own login never counts, even if the person offers it.
- [Agent]: the AI agent doing the work.

**The organization provides:** credentials for every agent it deploys, issued to the agent itself.

**The individual provides:** nothing; never the person's own login.

**Enables:** *Acts under its own credentials, never a person's*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (its own credentials) and the Supervisor (every agent's credentials and their revocation).

**If not given**

- If [Credentials] are not given: the agent stops, whatever the person allows.

### C5 Permitted Kinds of Action card

**The agent follows:** [Kind of Action] switched on for [Agent], except in [Blocking State].

**Fields**

- [Kind of Action]: a category of act agents may take at all, such as paying, sending or signing.
- [Agent]: the AI agent doing the work.
- [Blocking State]: a state of the case that switches the kind of action off.

**The organization provides:** all the kinds of action agents may take, and the states of a case that switch each off.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Is the agent allowed to do this at all?*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the kinds of action it may take) and the Supervisor (the organization's maximums for every agent).

**Other conditions**

- If [Kind of Action] is not switched on: the agent does not act and tells the person what it would need.

### C6 Irreversible Acts card

**The agent follows:** [Irreversible Acts] listed by [Organization], no narrower than [Legal Minimum]; and [Irreversible Acts] listed by [Principal], which may be wider than the organization's list.

**Fields**

- [Irreversible Acts]: the acts this organization treats as irreversible, each needing a fresh yes; on the person's list, the acts the person treats as irreversible, each needing a fresh yes.
- [Organization]: the organization the agent works within.
- [Legal Minimum]: any act the law requires to be treated as irreversible.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.

**The organization provides:** its list of irreversible acts, no narrower than the legal minimum.

**The individual provides:** the person's own list of irreversible acts, which may be wider than the organization's.

**Enables:** *Fresh yes for irreversible acts*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the whole list, checked against its own acts).

**If not given**

- If [Irreversible Acts] are not given: every act is treated as needing a fresh yes.

## 2. Instructions and Audit Trail (C7 to C12)

### C7 Approved Channels card

**The agent follows:** [Instruction] counts only through [Channel], in [Form], from [Authorized Sender].

**Fields**

- [Instruction]: a direction the agent acts on; anything else it reads (an email, a web page, a document) is information, never an instruction.
- [Channel]: a route the organization approves for instructions.
- [Form]: the form an instruction must take on that channel.
- [Authorized Sender]: a person the organization allows to send instructions on that channel.

**The organization provides:** all its approved channels for instructions, the form an instruction takes on each, and who may send on each.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Every action traces to an authorized instruction*; *A notice counts only in the form the rule requires*; *Shortcut pressure*

**Held by:** the Supervisor (the whole list, checked outside the model).

**If not given**

- If [Channel] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

### C8 Instructions card

**The agent follows:** [Instruction] from [Source], through [Channel], in [Form].

**Fields**

- [Instruction]: what the person tells the agent to do.
- [Source]: where the instruction came from.
- [Channel]: the route the instruction arrived through.
- [Form]: the form the instruction took.

**The organization provides:** nothing; the channels an instruction must arrive through are on C7.

**The individual provides:** the person's instructions, with where each came from.

**Enables:** *Every action traces to an authorized instruction*; *Shortcut pressure*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the instructions for its task).

**Other conditions**

- If [Source] does not trace to the Principal or to a rule: the action does not happen.

### C9 Autonomy Setting card

**The agent follows:** [Autonomy Setting] at [Checkpoint], set to [Setting], renewed every [Renewal Period], inside [Organization Limits].

**Fields**

- [Autonomy Setting]: how much the person lets the agent do alone; it cannot widen the organization's limits.
- [Checkpoint]: a point in a workflow where a check runs, usually where a person used to decide; here, the one the setting applies to.
- [Setting]: do it, ask first, or never.
- [Renewal Period]: how often standing permissions must be renewed.
- [Organization Limits]: the limits the organization sets, which the Autonomy Setting works inside.

**The organization provides:** the limits the Autonomy Setting works inside.

**The individual provides:** the person's setting at each checkpoint, and how often standing permissions are renewed.

**Enables:** *Standing authority expires and is reconfirmed*; *Something changed*; *Must be done personally*; *Duty to notify*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the settings for its checkpoints).

**If not given**

- If [Autonomy Setting] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person (open question 5).

**Other conditions**

- If a change falls outside [Autonomy Setting]: the change goes to the person.

### C10 Standing Preferences card

**The agent follows:** [Ranking] of options for [Kind of Case], set by [Principal].

**Fields**

- [Ranking]: the order in which the person prefers the options.
- [Kind of Case]: the type of case the ranking applies to.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.

**The organization provides:** nothing.

**The individual provides:** the person's ranking of options for each kind of case.

**Enables:** *The person's pick*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the rankings for its kind of case).

**If not given**

- If [Ranking] is not given: the person picks.

### C11 Signed Statements card

**The agent follows:** [Statement] of [Fact] signed by [Principal] for [Case], kept in [Statement Record].

**Fields**

- [Statement]: a Signed Statement; a person who asks to skip a step is recorded as signing a statement and taking responsibility.
- [Fact]: a fact only the person knows.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.
- [Case]: the case the statement covers.
- [Statement Record]: the record of the Signed Statement.

**The organization provides:** nothing; the facts its policies let a person state are on C22.

**The individual provides:** Signed Statements of facts only the person knows.

**Enables:** *Signed Statement*; *Shortcut pressure*; *The document chain*; *Indirect forms count as the real thing*; *Approve afterwards* (only under its proposed guardrails, not yet approved)

**Held by:** the Supervisor (the whole record, outside any one Mission; still to be settled, open question 2).

**If not given**

- If [Statement] is not given: the person signs a statement or declines.

**Other conditions**

- If [Fact] concerns something the organization governs and is not among the facts it lets a person state (C22): [Statement] is kept, but it does not settle the check; the case goes to the Holder of the Power.

### C12 Audit Trail card

**The agent follows:** [Audit Trail] kept at [Location] to [Standard], holding [Contents], showing when [Fact Relied on] has changed.

**Fields**

- [Audit Trail]: the log the agent writes every step to.
- [Location]: where the Audit Trail lives.
- [Standard]: the legal standard the Audit Trail meets, set by law and jurisdiction.
- [Contents]: every step, what each check relied on, who asked for any skipped step, and Signed Statements.
- [Fact Relied on]: a fact a check relied on, which the Audit Trail flags when it changes.

**The organization provides:** the Audit Trail: where it lives and the legal standard it meets.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Known Principal and Mission on record*; *Every step is recorded*; *Something changed*; *Shortcut pressure*; *Some actions create a duty to keep a record*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (writes its steps to it) and the Supervisor (holds it, with the checkpoint records that feed it).

**Other conditions**

- If a step cannot be written to [Audit Trail]: the step is not taken.

## 3. Authority (C13 to C17)

### C13 Authority Graph and Reachability card

**The agent follows:** [Person] holds [Role], approves [Decisions], answers to [Superior], is covered by [Deputy] when away, and [Decides or Advises]; each [Kind of Open Question] goes to [Holder of the Power], reached through [Contact], along [Escalation Route]; and [Principal] reachable through [Contact], or [Designee] answering for them.

**Fields**

- [Person]: a person in the organization.
- [Role]: the role the person holds.
- [Decisions]: what the person can approve.
- [Superior]: the person they answer to.
- [Deputy]: the person who steps in when they are away.
- [Decides or Advises]: whether the person decides or only advises.
- [Kind of Open Question]: a type of question a check cannot settle.
- [Holder of the Power]: the person who answers that kind of open question; Forced Discretion goes to them.
- [Contact]: how to reach the Holder of the Power; for the person, how to reach the person.
- [Escalation Route]: a route the organization provides for taking a case up.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.
- [Designee]: the person named to answer for them.

**The organization provides:** all its people: their roles, what each approves, whom each answers to, deputies, and who answers each kind of open question, how to reach them and the escalation routes.

**The individual provides:** how to reach the person, or the person named to answer for them.

**Enables:** *Every credential and delegation is current; after a role ends, authority shrinks to the remaining duties*; *A human is reachable for Forced Discretion*; *Record on file*; *Separation of duties*; *Hand off*; *Never step past a decision-maker*; and the step in every other check that sends a case to the Holder of the Power.

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (who answers each kind of open question in its case, and the next Holder of the Power; how to reach the person in its case) and the Supervisor (the whole map; contacts for every person, to route a case to the next Holder of the Power).

**Other conditions**

- If no [Holder of the Power] is reachable: the agent holds.
- If [Holder of the Power] does not answer: the silence never counts as a yes.
- If there is no next [Holder of the Power]: the case comes back to the person.
- If neither [Principal] nor [Designee] is reachable: the agent holds.
- If [Principal] or [Designee] does not answer: the silence never counts as a yes.

### C14 Sources of Authority and Legal Guidance card

**The agent follows:** [Power] granted by [Document] to [Holder of the Power], with [Amendment Holder] for terms locked at commitment and [Waiver Holder] for skipping a step; [Legal Guidance] on each [Legal Question], supplied by [Designated Counsel].

**Fields**

- [Power]: a power a rule mentions.
- [Document]: the charter, bylaws, delegation or contract that grants the power.
- [Holder of the Power]: the person or body that holds the power.
- [Amendment Holder]: the person or body that may amend terms locked at commitment.
- [Waiver Holder]: the person or body that may waive a step.
- [Legal Guidance]: the legal team's written view of what the law requires for a kind of request. The agent follows it and does not interpret the law on its own.
- [Legal Question]: a point of law a request turns on.
- [Designated Counsel]: the person or team the organization names to answer legal questions for the agent, such as its legal team.

**The organization provides:** all its Sources of Authority: who holds each power and through which document, and who may amend or waive; and the Legal Guidance its legal team supplies, with who answers legal questions.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Source of Authority*; *Terms locked at commitment*; *Shortcut pressure*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (only the powers its case touches, once that tier is unlocked) and the Supervisor (every source, unlocking a slice when the tier is reached).

**If not given**

- If [Document] is not given: the case goes to the person with what is missing and the alternatives: who might hold the power, or a route that does not need it.
- If [Legal Guidance] is not given for a [Legal Question]: the agent does not decide; the question goes to [Designated Counsel], or the organization and the person sign a statement of the legal basis.

### C15 Delegations and Grants card

**The agent follows:** [Delegation] issued by [Issuer] to [Agent], tied to [Role], last confirmed on [Last Confirmed], due for renewal on [Renewal Date] within [Longest Renewal Period], until [Expiry] or [Revocation]; or [Grant] from [Principal] to [Agent], last confirmed on [Last Confirmed], due for renewal on [Renewal Date], until [Expiry] or [Revocation].

**Fields**

- [Delegation]: a recorded grant of authority the agent acts under.
- [Issuer]: the person or body that granted the delegation.
- [Agent]: the AI agent doing the work.
- [Role]: the role the delegation is tied to, which may end or change.
- [Last Confirmed]: the date the delegation was last confirmed; for a grant, the date the grant was last confirmed.
- [Renewal Date]: the date by which the delegation must be confirmed again; for a grant, the date by which the grant must be confirmed again.
- [Longest Renewal Period]: the longest time between confirmations the organization allows.
- [Expiry]: the date the delegation ends; for a grant, the date the grant ends.
- [Revocation]: the organization's withdrawal or narrowing of the delegation, for example when roles change; for a grant, the person's withdrawal of the grant.
- [Holder of the Power]: the person who holds the power the delegation grants, named in the Authority Graph (C13).
- [Remaining Duties]: the duties defined by the role that must survive when the role has expired or been revoked (C28).
- [Grant]: a recorded authorization the person gives the agent to act for them.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.

**The organization provides:** all its delegations to agents, with the role each is tied to, renewal dates, the longest renewal period it allows, expiry and revocations.

**The individual provides:** the person's own grants of authority to the agent, with renewal dates, expiry and revocations.

**Enables:** *Every credential and delegation is current; after a role ends, authority shrinks to the remaining duties*; *Standing authority expires and is reconfirmed*; *Duties continue after the role ends*; *Source of Authority*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (its own delegations and renewal dates; the grants for its own work) and the Supervisor (every delegation, with revocations and role changes; every grant, with renewal dates that outlive Missions).

**If not given**

- If [Renewal Date] is not given: the agent asks [Holder of the Power] to reconfirm before acting.
- If [Grant] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

**Other conditions**

- If [Renewal Date] has passed: the agent asks [Holder of the Power] to reconfirm before acting.
- If [Role] has ended: the agent does only what [Remaining Duties] need.

### C16 Judgment Words card

**The agent follows:** [Judgment Word] in [Rule], judged by [Named Judge].

**Fields**

- [Judgment Word]: a word in a rule that calls for a person's judgment, such as good faith, reasonable, improper, material or same position.
- [Rule]: a rule that applies to the case.
- [Named Judge]: the person the rule names to make the judgment.

**The organization provides:** the judgment words in its rules, and the person each rule names to judge.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Does the rule call for a person's judgment?*; *Switches it off*; *Choose only on the criteria set in advance*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the words in the rules that cover its Mission) and the Supervisor (the words in every policy in force).

**If not given**

- If [Named Judge] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

### C17 Incompatible Roles card

**The agent follows:** [Role] held apart from [Incompatible Role], with [Approver] barred from [Barred Decision].

**Fields**

- [Role]: a role the organization names, such as the one who acts.
- [Incompatible Role]: a role that must sit with a different person, such as the one who approves.
- [Approver]: the person approving a decision.
- [Barred Decision]: the decision the approver may not make because of a role they hold.

**The organization provides:** all the roles it keeps apart, and the decisions each approver is barred from.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Separation of duties*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the roles in its case) and the Supervisor (every pair of roles, compared across the whole map).

**If not given**

- If [Incompatible Role] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

## 4. Policies and Rules (C18 to C22)

### C18 Policies in Force card

**The agent follows:** [Policy Text] covering [Situations], turned into [Checks] that read [Items].

**Fields**

- [Policy Text]: every policy of the organization that may apply, word for word.
- [Situations]: the situations the policy covers.
- [Checks]: the checks the policy turns into.
- [Items]: the items in this document that each check reads.

**The organization provides:** all its policies that may apply, word for word, with the situations they cover.

**The individual provides:** nothing; the person's own rules are on C20.

**Enables:** *Which known policies cover this?*; *Does the agent have the information it needs?*; *Contradiction*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the policies that cover its Mission) and the Supervisor (every policy in force).

**Other conditions**

- If no [Policy Text] covers the request: it goes back to the person as no coverage.

### C19 Links Between Rules card

**The agent follows:** [Rule] linked to [Target Rule] by [Kind of Link], when [Trigger] holds, within [Limits], judged by [Judge], in [Required Form], in force on [Dates in Force], with [Linked Text] in hand; an approval afterwards adds [Window], [Approver] and [Refusal Outcome]; a lock adds [Lock Form].

**Fields**

- [Rule]: a rule that changes another rule.
- [Target Rule]: the rule it points at.
- [Kind of Link]: switches the target off or on, outranks it, offers another way to comply, moves its approval to afterwards, locks it against waiver, or cannot be combined with it.
- [Trigger]: the condition that makes the link apply.
- [Limits]: the bounds on how far the link reaches.
- [Judge]: the person who decides whether the trigger holds.
- [Required Form]: any form the link must take to count.
- [Dates in Force]: the dates the link applies.
- [Linked Text]: the text of the linked rule, which must be in hand.
- [Window]: the time allowed for an approval afterwards.
- [Approver]: the person who gives the approval afterwards.
- [Refusal Outcome]: what happens if the approval afterwards is refused.
- [Lock Form]: whether a lock is absolute, or the form a waiver must take.

**The organization provides:** every link between its rules, with the text of each linked rule.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Find the rules that change this rule*; *Switches it off*; *Switches it on*; *Decides which wins*; *Another way counts*; *Approve afterwards*; *Cannot be switched off*; *Choosing one option switches another off*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the links on the policies that cover its Mission) and the Supervisor (every link in every policy in force).

**If not given**

- If [Linked Text] is not given: the agent stops and names the rule.

**Other conditions**

- If [Linked Text] is a charter that is missing: the agent never treats it as silent.

### C20 Limits and Counts card

**The agent follows:** [Limit] on [Event Type] per [Counted Object] over [Period], reset at [Reset], counting [What Counts], [Cumulative or per Case], passed to [Holder of the Power] when exceeded; and [Rule Text] set by [Principal], covering [Situations], where a limit in it carries [Limit], [Period], [Reset], [What Counts] and [Cumulative or per Case], as above.

**Fields**

- [Limit]: the count or total a policy sets, such as for gifts, leave or extensions; in the person's rule, the count or total the person's rule sets.
- [Event Type]: the type of event the limit counts.
- [Counted Object]: what the count is kept for, for example each source of gifts.
- [Period]: the span of time the count runs over, such as a week or a year.
- [Reset]: when the period starts and when the count goes back to zero.
- [What Counts]: which events count toward the limit.
- [Cumulative or per Case]: whether the limit applies to the running total across cases or to each case alone.
- [Holder of the Power]: the person the policy names to decide when the limit is passed.
- [Rule Text]: a rule the person sets for themselves.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.
- [Situations]: the situations the rule covers.

**The organization provides:** all the limits in its policies: what each counts, over what period, when it resets, what counts toward it, and who decides when it is passed.

**The individual provides:** the person's own rules and limits, with the same parameters.

**Enables:** *Count or total*; *Approve afterwards* (only under its proposed guardrails, not yet approved); *Which known policies cover this?*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the limits in the policies that cover its Mission; the rules that cover its Mission) and the Supervisor (every limit, with its running total; every rule the person has set).

**If not given**

- If [Limit] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.
- If [Period], [Reset], [What Counts] or [Cumulative or per Case] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person, with no default assumed (open question 6).
- If [Rule Text] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

### C21 Rights and Added Burdens card

**The agent follows:** [Right] held by [Person] in [Process], free of [Added Burden].

**Fields**

- [Right]: a right the person has in the process.
- [Person]: the person who holds the right.
- [Process]: the process the right applies in.
- [Added Burden]: anything that would make the right harder to use.

**The organization provides:** the rights in its processes, and what would burden them.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Exercising a right carries no added burden*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the rights in its process) and the Supervisor (the rights in every policy in force).

**If not given**

- If [Added Burden] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

### C22 Statable Facts, Reserved Acts card

**The agent follows:** [Statable Fact] the person may state, and [Reserved Act] and [Reserved Field] kept for the person, under [Policy]; and [Kept Act] and [Kept Field] that [Principal] does personally.

**Fields**

- [Statable Fact]: a fact a policy lets a person state for themselves.
- [Reserved Act]: an act a policy reserves for the person.
- [Reserved Field]: a form field a policy reserves for the person.
- [Policy]: the policy that allows the statement or reserves the act or field.
- [Kept Act]: an act the person wants to do themselves.
- [Kept Field]: a form field the person wants to fill in themselves.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.

**The organization provides:** the facts its policies let a person state, and the acts and form fields its policies reserve for the person.

**The individual provides:** the acts and form fields the person wants to do themselves.

**Enables:** *Signed Statement*; *Must be done personally*; *The document chain*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (those in the policies that cover its Mission; those in its case) and the Supervisor (those in every policy in force).

**If not given**

- If [Policy] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.
- If [Kept Act] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

## 5. Process and Forms (C23 to C26)

### C23 Required Steps and Order card

**The agent follows:** [Step] in [Process], of [Order Kind], depending on [Dependency], made required by [Triggering Answer], followed by [Follow-up Item] due by [Follow-up Deadline].

**Fields**

- [Step]: a step the process requires.
- [Process]: the process the steps belong to.
- [Order Kind]: whether the step must come in sequence, only needs to be done before the end, is needed only if an earlier answer calls for it, or may follow submission.
- [Dependency]: what the step depends on.
- [Triggering Answer]: an earlier answer that makes the step or a later item required.
- [Follow-up Item]: an item due after the step.
- [Follow-up Deadline]: the date the follow-up item is due.

**The organization provides:** all the steps of its processes, with their order, dependencies and follow-ups.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Order and completeness*; *Strict sequence*; *Required before completion, any order*; *Conditional*; *Can be done after submission*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the steps of its own process).

**If not given**

- If [Order Kind] is not given: the step goes to whoever owns [Process].

### C24 Forms card

**The agent follows:** [Form] with [Fields] taking [Allowed Values], filled by [Filler], signed by [Signer], sent by [Sender].

**Fields**

- [Form]: an actual form the organization uses.
- [Fields]: the fields on the form.
- [Allowed Values]: the values each field may take.
- [Filler]: the person or agent who fills each field.
- [Signer]: the person who signs the form.
- [Sender]: the person or agent who sends the form.

**The organization provides:** all its forms: their fields, the values each may take, and who fills, signs and sends each.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *The document chain*; *Must be done personally*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the forms in its process).

**If not given**

- If [Filler] is not given: the field goes to the person.

### C25 Notice Requirements card

**The agent follows:** [Notice] containing [Required Content], sent through [Channel] to [Addressee].

**Fields**

- [Notice]: a notice a rule requires.
- [Required Content]: what the notice must contain.
- [Channel]: how the notice must be sent.
- [Addressee]: whom the notice must go to.

**The organization provides:** the notices its rules require, with content, channel and addressee.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Duty to notify*; *A notice counts only in the form the rule requires*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the notices in its case).

**If not given**

- If [Required Content] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

### C26 Paths After a No card

**The agent follows:** [Paths] offered by [Organization] after [Adverse Decision].

**Fields**

- [Paths]: the routes offered: resubmit, appeal, or none.
- [Organization]: the organization the agent works within.
- [Adverse Decision]: a decision that goes against the person.

**The organization provides:** the paths it offers after a decision goes against the person.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Decline*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the paths for its case).

**If not given**

- If [Paths] are not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

## 6. Duties and Dates (C27 to C32)

### C27 Triggered Duties card

**The agent follows:** [Trigger] arriving through [Channel] starts [Act Owed] to [Owed Party] within [Due Period]; a record duty adds [Record Content] kept for [Retention Period].

**Fields**

- [Trigger]: an action or incoming information that starts a duty to notify, to respond or to keep a record.
- [Channel]: the channel the information has to arrive through for the duty to start.
- [Act Owed]: the act the duty requires: notify, respond or keep a record.
- [Owed Party]: the person or body the act is owed to.
- [Due Period]: the period the act is due within.
- [Record Content]: the content a required record must hold.
- [Retention Period]: how long the record must be kept.
- [Duty Holder]: the person who holds the duty.

**The organization provides:** all the duties an action or incoming information starts: the channel, the act owed, to whom, by when, any record content and retention, and who holds the duty.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Receiving information starts a legal clock*; *Duty to notify*; *Some actions create a duty to keep a record*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the duties of its case) and the Supervisor (duties that arrive in another workstream or outlast a Mission).

**If not given**

- If [Act Owed] or [Due Period] is not given: the duty goes to [Duty Holder] and is never guessed.

**Other conditions**

- If the agent cannot meet [Act Owed]: the duty goes to [Duty Holder] at once, with the deadline.

### C28 Surviving Duties card

**The agent follows:** [Duty] continuing after [Role] ends, for [Survival Period].

**Fields**

- [Duty]: a duty defined by the role that must survive when the role has expired or been revoked.
- [Role]: the role the duty comes from.
- [Survival Period]: how long the duty continues after the role ends.

**The organization provides:** the duties that continue after a role ends, and for how long.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Duties continue after the role ends*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the surviving duties in its case) and the Supervisor (every surviving duty, beyond any one Mission).

**If not given**

- If [Survival Period] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

### C29 Deadlines and Lapse Effects card

**The agent follows:** [Deadline] with [Lapse Allowed], and [Default Effect] on [Affected Party] if it passes with no action.

**Fields**

- [Deadline]: the date by which something is due.
- [Lapse Allowed]: whether letting the deadline pass with no action is allowed.
- [Default Effect]: what happens automatically if the deadline passes.
- [Affected Party]: the person or body the default effect falls on.

**The organization provides:** its deadlines, whether each may lapse, and what happens by default.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Is inaction allowed? If not, force the decision before the deadline*; *Deadline awareness*; *Can be done after submission*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the deadlines of its case) and the Supervisor (deadlines that outlast a Mission or arrive in another workstream).

**If not given**

- If [Lapse Allowed] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

### C30 Other Side's Dates card

**The agent follows:** [Other Side] answering within [Response Time], and acting on its own on [Automatic Date].

**Fields**

- [Other Side]: the counterparty in the case.
- [Response Time]: how long the other side usually takes to answer.
- [Automatic Date]: a date on which the other side acts on its own, such as a renewal, a price rise or a cancellation.

**The organization provides:** for each counterparty, how long it takes to answer and the dates on which it acts on its own.

**The individual provides:** nothing; the person's intent at commitment is on C31.

**Enables:** *Deadline awareness*; *The other side's automatic date*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the dates in its case) and the Supervisor (dates that outlast a Mission or arrive in another workstream).

**If not given**

- If [Automatic Date] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

### C31 Intent at Commitment card

**The agent follows:** [Intent] recorded by [Principal] at [Commitment].

**Fields**

- [Intent]: what the person meant a commitment for, for example a trial meant for one event.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.
- [Commitment]: the commitment the intent is recorded against.
- [Automatic Date]: the date on which the other side acts on its own (C30).

**The organization provides:** nothing; the other side's automatic date is on C30.

**The individual provides:** what the person meant each commitment for.

**Enables:** *The other side's automatic date*

**Held by:** not yet assigned to either agent (open question 7).

**If not given**

- If [Intent] is not given: the case goes to the person before [Automatic Date].

### C32 Commitment Dates card

**The agent follows:** [Terms] fixed on [Commitment Date], changeable only through [Amendment Path].

**Fields**

- [Terms]: the terms of a commitment.
- [Commitment Date]: the date the terms were fixed.
- [Amendment Path]: the route by which each term may be changed.

**The organization provides:** the terms of each commitment, the date they were fixed, and how each may be changed.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Terms locked at commitment*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the commitments in its case) and the Supervisor (commitments that outlast a Mission or sit in another workstream).

**If not given**

- If [Amendment Path] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

## 7. Records, Lists and Parties (C33 to C39)

### C33 Record of Past Events card

**The agent follows:** [Event] on [Event Date] against [Counted Object] under [Limit], with [Past Approvals Afterwards] and [Comparable Decisions]; or [Event] on [Event Date], kept by [Principal] under [Personal Limit].

**Fields**

- [Event]: a past event of the type a limit counts; in the person's record, a past event of the type the person's own limit counts.
- [Event Date]: the date the event happened, so a running count or total over the limit's period can be worked out.
- [Counted Object]: what the event counts against, as the limit defines it.
- [Limit]: the limit in C20, whose period and counting rule decide which events are in the count.
- [Past Approvals Afterwards]: past uses of approval-afterwards paths.
- [Comparable Decisions]: comparable past decisions, for questions a person must judge.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.
- [Personal Limit]: the limit in the person's own rule (C20).

**The organization provides:** its dated record of past events counted against its limits, past uses of approval afterwards, and comparable past decisions.

**The individual provides:** the person's own dated record of past events under their own limits.

**Enables:** *Count or total*; *Approve afterwards* (only under its proposed guardrails, not yet approved); *Does the rule call for a person's judgment?*

**Held by:** the Supervisor (the whole record; see open question 1).

**If not given**

- If [Event] records are not given: a count or total cannot be settled and goes to the person.

### C34 Documents on File card

**The agent follows:** [Record Type] issued by [Issuer], valid until [Expiry], under [Terms].

**Fields**

- [Record Type]: a record a rule requires: an approval, a certificate, a license, an exemption, or a safeguard in place.
- [Issuer]: the person or body that issued the record.
- [Expiry]: the date the record stops being valid.
- [Terms]: for a license or exemption, the terms it carries.

**The organization provides:** the records its rules require, with issuer, expiry and terms.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Record on file*; *Switches it on*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the records its case needs).

**If not given**

- If [Record Type] is not given: the agent does not act, and the case goes to [Issuer] with what is missing and the alternatives.

### C35 Active Stops card

**The agent follows:** [Stop] on [Item], set by [Setter] under [Authority], until [End Condition]; or [Stop] blocking [Stopped Action] while [Condition] holds, with [Signed Statement] where needed.

**Fields**

- [Stop]: a temporary block on an item, such as a litigation hold; or a block the person sets, for example: do not close deals with anyone I have contacted in 12 months.
- [Item]: the thing the stop blocks.
- [Setter]: the person or fact that set the stop.
- [Authority]: the authority the stop was set under.
- [End Condition]: the condition that ends the stop.
- [Stopped Action]: what the stop blocks.
- [Condition]: the condition under which the stop applies.
- [Signed Statement]: the person's statement that the condition applies, where the agent cannot know it.

**The organization provides:** all active stops, who set each and under what authority, and when each ends.

**The individual provides:** the stops the person sets, the condition for each, and a Signed Statement where needed.

**Enables:** *Is anything stopping this action, set by a person or triggered by a fact?*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (stops on the items in its case; the person's stops on its case) and the Supervisor (stops set anywhere).

**If not given**

- If [Condition] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

**Other conditions**

- If it is unclear whether [Stop] applies: the case goes to [Setter].

### C36 Named and Personal Lists card

**The agent follows:** [List] kept by [Keeper], last updated on [Last Update]; or [List] kept by [Principal].

**Fields**

- [List]: a list a policy names, such as approved vendors, barred parties or do not call; or a list the person keeps, such as blocked senders or preferred vendors.
- [Keeper]: the person or body that keeps the list.
- [Last Update]: the date the list was last updated.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.

**The organization provides:** all the lists its policies name, who keeps each, and when each was last updated.

**The individual provides:** the lists the person keeps.

**Enables:** *On a list*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the lists its case checks against).

**If not given**

- If [List] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

**Other conditions**

- If one [List] disagrees with another: the case goes to the person with what each list says.

### C37 Party Facts and Statements card

**The agent follows:** [Party] with [Status] on [Status Date], owned or controlled through [Ownership Chain], measured against [Ownership Threshold]; or [Party] stated to have [Status] by [Principal], for [Purpose].

**Fields**

- [Party]: a party in the case.
- [Status]: the party's recorded status, for example for profit, federal agency or large filer; as the person states it, the party's status, where deciding it needs a judgment.
- [Status Date]: the date a rule names for reading the status.
- [Ownership Chain]: the chain of who owns or controls the party.
- [Ownership Threshold]: the ownership percentage each rule sets.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.
- [Purpose]: the purpose of the act, where a rule turns on it.

**The organization provides:** each party's recorded status, ownership chain and the thresholds its rules set.

**The individual provides:** a party's status where deciding it needs a judgment, and the purpose of an act where a rule turns on it.

**Enables:** *Every party's status and relationships decide which rules apply*; *Indirect forms count as the real thing*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the parties in its case; the statements for its case).

**If not given**

- If [Status] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

### C38 Agreements with Others card

**The agent follows:** [Agreement] with [Other Party] on [Terms].

**Fields**

- [Agreement]: an agreement the organization has made with another party; it binds every task that touches that party.
- [Other Party]: the party the agreement is with.
- [Terms]: the terms of the agreement.

**The organization provides:** all its agreements with other parties, and their terms.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Every party's status and relationships decide which rules apply*

**Held by:** the Supervisor (every agreement, for every task that touches the other party).

**If not given**

- If [Agreement] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

### C39 Open Options Across Workstreams card

**The agent follows:** [Other Mission] for the same [Principal], with [Open Options], [Chosen Options] and [Exclusive Options].

**Fields**

- [Other Mission]: another Mission for the same person or organization, seen by the Supervisor across workstreams.
- [Principal]: the person or organization the Missions serve.
- [Open Options]: the options each other Mission has open.
- [Chosen Options]: the options each other Mission has already chosen.
- [Exclusive Options]: options that cannot be combined across Missions.

**The organization provides:** the options open, chosen and exclusive in each of its Missions for the same Principal.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Choosing one option switches another off*

**Held by:** the Supervisor (every Mission it supervises, seen together).

**If not given**

- If [Open Options] are not given: a choice that may close an option held elsewhere goes to the Supervisor before it is made.

## 8. Methods (C40 to C42)

### C40 Approved Formulas card

**The agent follows:** [Formula] with [Formula Parameters], approved by [Approval Source], held by [Formula Holder]; and [Method Parameters] set by [Principal], feeding a formula held by [Formula Holder].

**Fields**

- [Formula]: the formula for an amount the agent works out.
- [Formula Parameters]: the values the formula takes.
- [Approval Source]: where the formula's approval comes from.
- [Formula Holder]: the person who holds the formula the settings feed.
- [Method Parameters]: the values the person sets where the method is their own.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.

**The organization provides:** its approved formulas, with their parameters, where each approval comes from, and who holds each.

**The individual provides:** the parameters, where the method is the person's own.

**Enables:** *Calculated amounts use a known, approved formula*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the formulas its case uses; the settings for its case).

**If not given**

- If [Formula] is not given: the case goes to [Formula Holder].
- If any of [Formula Parameters] is not given: the case goes to [Formula Holder].
- If any of [Method Parameters] is not given: the case goes to [Formula Holder].

### C41 Rank Orders card

**The agent follows:** [Rank Order] for sharing out what is short, set by [Rank Setter]; or [Priorities] set by [Principal].

**Fields**

- [Rank Order]: the order in which a shortfall is shared out.
- [Rank Setter]: the person who may set the rank order.
- [Priorities]: the order of importance the person sets.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.

**The organization provides:** its rank orders for sharing out what is short, and who may set them.

**The individual provides:** the person's priorities, where the rank is theirs to set.

**Enables:** *Handle by rank; share a shortfall evenly within a rank*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the rank orders its case uses; the settings for its case).

**If not given**

- If [Rank Order] is implied but not given: the agent stops and the case goes to [Rank Setter].

### C42 Criteria Set in Advance card

**The agent follows:** [Criteria] with [Weights], set by [Criteria Setter] before [Choice]; or [Personal Criteria] set by [Principal].

**Fields**

- [Criteria]: the criteria announced before a choice.
- [Weights]: how much each criterion counts.
- [Criteria Setter]: the person who set the criteria.
- [Choice]: the choice the criteria govern.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.
- [Personal Criteria]: the criteria the person sets for a choice.

**The organization provides:** the criteria and weights set before each choice, and who set them.

**The individual provides:** the person's own criteria for a choice.

**Enables:** *Choose only on the criteria set in advance*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (the criteria for choices in its case; the settings for its case).

**If not given**

- If [Criteria] are not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.

## 9. Labels and Protections (C43 to C45)

### C43 Data and Asset Labels card

**The agent follows:** [Permission] covering [Content Kinds]; [Source] carrying [Obligations] into every copy and anything derived from it.

**Fields**

- [Permission]: a permission granted over data or assets.
- [Content Kinds]: the kinds of content the permission covers.
- [Source]: a source of data or an asset.
- [Obligations]: purpose limits, blocks and terms on transfer attached to the source; they carry forward to copies and anything derived from them.

**The organization provides:** the permissions over its data and assets, their sources, and the obligations attached.

**The individual provides:** nothing; leave to share untraced content is on C44.

**Enables:** *Content inspection*; *What obligations are attached to this data or asset?*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (labels on the data inside its scope) and the Supervisor (obligations as they follow data into copies and other Missions).

**If not given**

- If [Source] is not given: the content is labeled as having no traceable source and cannot satisfy a record or Signed Statement requirement.

**Other conditions**

- If no [Permission] covers one of the [Content Kinds]: the case goes to the person with the choices: remove, redact, or send with a yes.

### C44 Leave for Untraced Content card

**The agent follows:** [Untraced Content] shared under [Signed Statement] from [Principal], where [Content Kind] is among [Accepted Kinds].

**Fields**

- [Untraced Content]: content whose origin cannot be traced.
- [Signed Statement]: the person's statement that they may share the content, with which they carry the responsibility. It records who took responsibility; it does not give the person a right they do not hold.
- [Principal]: the person the agent acts for.
- [Content Kind]: the kind of content being shared, such as an email screenshot or a customer record.
- [Accepted Kinds]: the kinds of content the organization accepts a Signed Statement for, and for which recipients.
- [Holder of the Power]: the person who holds the power over that kind of content, named in the Authority Graph (C13).

**The organization provides:** which kinds of content it accepts a Signed Statement for, and for which recipients.

**The individual provides:** a Signed Statement that the person may share content whose origin cannot be traced.

**Enables:** *What obligations are attached to this data or asset?*; *Content inspection*

**Held by:** the Mission Agent (Signed Statements for content in its scope) and the Supervisor (Signed Statements as they follow the content into other Missions).

**If not given**

- If [Signed Statement] is not given: the check is not settled and goes to the person.
- If [Accepted Kinds] is not given: no kind is accepted; the Signed Statement is kept and the check goes to [Holder of the Power].

**Other conditions**

- If [Content Kind] is not among [Accepted Kinds]: the Signed Statement is kept as a record, the content is not shared, and the case goes to [Holder of the Power].
- If the content belongs only to the person's own affairs: [Accepted Kinds] does not apply.

### C45 Protected Facts About People card

**The agent follows:** [Protected Fact] about [Person], protected by [Protecting Rule] for [Protection Period].

**Fields**

- [Protected Fact]: a fact that may not count against a person, such as that they took leave or reported an injury.
- [Person]: the person the fact is about.
- [Protecting Rule]: the rule that protects the fact.
- [Protection Period]: how long the protection lasts.

**The organization provides:** the protected facts about its people, the rules that protect them, and for how long.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**Enables:** *Protected facts may not count against a person*

**Held by:** the Supervisor (the whole item, withheld from the drafting step).

**If not given**

- If [Protection Period] is not given: the protection is treated as active.

## 10. Provider (C46)

### C46 Provider Limits card

**The agent follows:** [Provider Limits] set by [Provider], with [In Force Status] and [Lowering Record].

**Fields**

- [Provider Limits]: the minimum set of restrictions the AI model provider sets, which nobody below may lower.
- [Provider]: the company that supplies the AI model.
- [In Force Status]: whether the limits are in force.
- [Lowering Record]: whether anyone below has lowered them.

**The organization provides:** nothing.

**The individual provides:** nothing.

**The AI provider provides:** its own limits on what its models may do, whether they are in force, and whether anyone below has lowered them.

**Enables:** *Provider Floor intact*

**Held by:** the Supervisor (the whole item, so the agent working under a limit is not the one confirming it).

**Other conditions**

- If [Provider Limits] are not in force: the agent stops.

## 11. What the Mission Agent holds

The Mission Agent does the task. It holds only the part of each card its case needs, inside its Granted Scope, as each card's Held by line states; for C6 it holds the whole list, and for C12 it has write access only.

**Holds:** C1 to C6, C8 to C10, C12 to C30, C32, C34 to C37, C40 to C44.

**Does not hold:**

- C7 Approved Channels
- C11 Signed Statements
- C31 Intent at Commitment (not yet assigned)
- C33 Record of Past Events
- C38 Agreements with Others
- C39 Open Options Across Workstreams
- C45 Protected Facts About People
- C46 Provider Limits

## 12. What the Supervisor holds

The Supervisor is the checkpoint layer: it decides each Mission's scope, sees across workstreams, and holds state that cuts across them. In AAuth terms the Person Server grants what the Supervisor decides. By default the Supervisor is the person, or a supervision server the person or organization chooses. It holds the whole of each card below, for every Mission it supervises, and passes each Mission Agent only the part it needs. Why it holds each:

- C1 Principal Record; C2 Mission Statement: it decides scope against the Mission, and every check asks whose rules apply.
- C3 Scope Grant: it allows access only within the Granted Scope, and an action whose effects reach past a scope comes to it first.
- C4 Agent Credentials: revocations and role changes happen outside any one Mission.
- C5 Permitted Kinds of Action: no lower party may widen what the provider forbids, and the agent working under a limit should not be the one to confirm the limit is still in force.
- C7 Approved Channels: the model can be steered by what it reads, so the check that an action traces to a real instruction sits outside the model.
- C11 Signed Statements: our current view is that a person's statement of fact may live with the Supervisor, outside any one Mission (still to be settled).
- C12 Audit Trail: checkpoint records feed the Mission log, and every error must be traceable to the space between two checkpoints.
- C13 Authority Graph and Reachability: routing a case to the next Holder of the Power, and comparing who does with who approves, needs the whole map; routing a case to the next Holder of the Power needs the person's contact too.
- C14 Sources of Authority and Legal Guidance: it unlocks a slice to the Mission Agent only when that tier is reached.
- C15 Delegations and Grants: revocations and role changes happen outside any one Mission, and renewal dates outlive Missions; for the person's grants, revocations happen outside any one Mission, and renewal dates outlive Missions.
- C16 Judgment Words; C17 Incompatible Roles; C18 Policies in Force; C19 Links Between Rules; C20 Limits and Counts; C21 Rights and Added Burdens; C22 Statable Facts, Reserved Acts: a rule that changes another can sit outside the Mission's slice, and the Supervisor catches a task that breaks another known policy.
- C27 Triggered Duties; C28 Surviving Duties; C29 Deadlines and Lapse Effects; C30 Other Side's Dates; C32 Commitment Dates: information can start the Principal's legal clock in any workstream, and some duties outlast the role.
- C33 Record of Past Events: a running total over a period spans many tasks, and no single Mission sees it whole.
- C35 Active Stops: a stop is often set outside the Mission it blocks.
- C38 Agreements with Others: an agreement binds every task that touches the other party.
- C39 Open Options Across Workstreams: an option one Mission closes may be held in another.
- C43 Data and Asset Labels; C44 Leave for Untraced Content: obligations follow data into copies and to the next holder, which can sit in another Mission.
- C45 Protected Facts About People: the check withholds them from the drafting step, so the agent that drafts must not hold them.
- C46 Provider Limits: no lower party may widen what the provider forbids, and our reasoning is that the agent working under a limit should not be the one to confirm the limit is still in force.

Of C22 it holds the facts and reserved acts in policy, not the acts the person keeps for themselves.

**Does not hold** (these serve checks the Mission Agent runs inside its own task): C6, C8, C9, C10, C23, C24, C25, C26, C34, C36, C37, C40, C41, C42.

C31 Intent at Commitment is not yet assigned to either agent (open question 7).

## 13. Open questions

1. Does the Mission Agent ever see the dated records of past events (C33), or does the Supervisor return only the count?
2. Where do Signed Statements (C11) finally live: with the Supervisor, or outside both agents?
3. After the Supervisor approves a scope, who grants the access: the system holding the data, or the service acting for the person?
4. When the organization's and the individual's sides of one card disagree (for example the organization's stops and the person's stops on C35), which governs?
5. With no Autonomy Setting on file (C9), does every change go to the person, or does a narrow default apply?
6. May an organization declare defaults for a limit's parameters (C20)? A permissive default (per case, not cumulative) lets a request be split to get under a limit, so until one is declared, an unknown parameter means not settled.
7. Which agent holds intent recorded at commitment (C31)?
8. Who supplies the legal minimums some cards name (C6, C12)?
9. C2 says the Principal states the Mission, but the glossary now defines a Mission as the approved task: the agent proposes it and the person approves it. Should C2's line read approved by [Principal], and what the individual provides read approval of the Mission?

## 14. Mapping from earlier card numbers

| Earlier card | Earlier name | Current card |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Principal Record | C1 Principal Record |
| 1.2 | Scope Grant | C3 Scope Grant |
| 1.3 | Agent Credentials | C4 Agent Credentials |
| 1.4 | Delegations and Renewal | C15 Delegations and Grants |
| 1.5 | Permitted Kinds of Action | C5 Permitted Kinds of Action |
| 1.6 | Organization's Irreversible Acts | C6 Irreversible Acts |
| 1.7 | Approved Channels | C7 Approved Channels |
| 1.8 | Record of Steps | C12 Audit Trail |
| 1.9 | Authority Graph | C13 Authority Graph and Reachability |
| 1.10 | Sources of Authority | C14 Sources of Authority and Legal Guidance |
| 1.14 | Judgment Words | C16 Judgment Words |
| 1.15 | Incompatible Roles | C17 Incompatible Roles |
| 1.11 | Policies in Force | C18 Policies in Force |
| 1.12 | Links Between Rules | C19 Links Between Rules |
| 1.13 | Limits and Counts in Policy | C20 Limits and Counts |
| 1.16 | Rights and Added Burdens | C21 Rights and Added Burdens |
| 1.17 | Statable Facts and Reserved Acts | C22 Statable Facts, Reserved Acts |
| 1.18 | Required Steps and Order | C23 Required Steps and Order |
| 1.19 | Forms | C24 Forms |
| 1.20 | Notice Requirements | C25 Notice Requirements |
| 1.21 | Paths After a No | C26 Paths After a No |
| 1.22 | Triggered Duties | C27 Triggered Duties |
| 1.23 | Surviving Duties | C28 Surviving Duties |
| 1.24 | Deadlines and Lapse Effects | C29 Deadlines and Lapse Effects |
| 1.25 | Other Side's Dates | C30 Other Side's Dates |
| 1.26 | Commitment Dates | C32 Commitment Dates |
| 1.27 | Dated Record of Past Events | C33 Record of Past Events |
| 1.28 | Documents on File | C34 Documents on File |
| 1.29 | Active Stops | C35 Active Stops |
| 1.30 | Named Lists | C36 Named and Personal Lists |
| 1.31 | Party Facts | C37 Party Facts and Statements |
| 1.32 | Agreements with Others | C38 Agreements with Others |
| 1.33 | Approved Formulas | C40 Approved Formulas |
| 1.34 | Rank Orders | C41 Rank Orders |
| 1.35 | Criteria Set in Advance | C42 Criteria Set in Advance |
| 1.36 | Data and Asset Labels | C43 Data and Asset Labels |
| 1.37 | Protected Facts About People | C45 Protected Facts About People |
| 1.38 | Open Options Across Workstreams | C39 Open Options Across Workstreams |
| 2.1 | Mission Statement | C2 Mission Statement |
| 2.2 | Instructions | C8 Instructions |
| 2.3 | Personal Grants of Authority | C15 Delegations and Grants |
| 2.4 | Tolerance | C9 Autonomy Setting |
| 2.5 | Personal Irreversible Acts | C6 Irreversible Acts |
| 2.6 | Personal Rules and Limits | C20 Limits and Counts |
| 2.7 | Personal Record of Past Events | C33 Record of Past Events |
| 2.8 | Personal Stops | C35 Active Stops |
| 2.9 | Personal Lists | C36 Named and Personal Lists |
| 2.10 | Status and Purpose Statements | C37 Party Facts and Statements |
| 2.11 | Personal Method Settings | C40 ([Method Parameters]); C41 ([Priorities]); C42 ([Personal Criteria]) |
| 2.12 | Signed Statements | C11 Signed Statements |
| 2.13 | Intent at Commitment | C31 Intent at Commitment |
| 2.14 | Standing Preferences | C10 Standing Preferences |
| 2.15 | Personally Kept Acts and Fields | C22 Statable Facts, Reserved Acts |
| 2.16 | Leave to Share Untraced Content | C44 Leave for Untraced Content |
| 2.17 | Reachability | C13 Authority Graph and Reachability |
| 3.1 | Provider Limits | C46 Provider Limits |