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Michael Rishi Forrester

Agentic Covenants

Agentic Charter Matrix

Who is allowed to put this agent into the world, under what authority, accountable to what policy, with what retirement criteria?

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Layers, by what they can actually enforce

  • Agent charter — advisory

    What the agent's own charter declares. Scope it claims for itself.

  • Domain charter — deterministic-when-invoked

    The domain or team that operates the agent, and the policy they set.

  • Organizational charter — deterministic-and-external

    Authority above the operator. Organizational policy the operator cannot waive.

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  • Approval gating at Organizational charter

    AI Governance Council approves new agent classes, ratifies risk-tier policy. Member roles named (CISO, Chief AI Officer, GC, Privacy, Domain Leads). Quorum and voting rules defined.

  • Approval gating at Domain charter

    Domain authority approves charters within its domain. Multi-party signature for Tier 3+. Charter amendments require the same process as originals.

  • Approval gating at Agent charter

    Charter signed by owner, domain authority, and (Tier 3+) security review. Charter identifies approver of every subsequent scope change. Annual review cadence. Emergency revocation conditions specified.