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Cryptographic Identity & RBAC for Sovereign AI Agent Accountability
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Cryptographic Identity & RBAC for Sovereign AI Agent Accountability

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Cryptographic Identity & RBAC for Sovereign AI Agent Accountability If you’re letting AI agents open pull requests, read secrets, call internal tools, or trigger deploys, you’ve probably hit the same uncomfortable question: who actually did what? Not “which app” or “which API key,” but which agent, acting under whose authority, with what permissions, and with what audit trail. That problem gets worse as agents become more autonomous. A shared service token works for a demo, but in production it destroys accountability. If five agents use the same credential to access GitHub, Jira, Slack, your MCP tools, or internal APIs, you can’t reliably answer basic security questions: Which agent approved this action? Was it acting on behalf of a human? Did it have permission at the time? Can we revoke or limit that authority without breaking everything? Can we prove the chain of delegation later? This is where cryptographic identity and RBAC stop being “enterprise auth features” and become core in

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