What KIND of principal an actor is. Roles are a human vocabulary — a
scheduled job, a service call, and an agent delegating to another agent have
no logged-in person behind them, and giving them a human role to satisfy an
authorization gate is how automated execution silently inherits human
authority.
Breakwater does not resolve principals; the host does (see
breakwater-purpose-and-boundaries.md). It only needs to tell a person from
a process so a guarded agent can refuse the latter by default.
What KIND of principal an actor is. Roles are a human vocabulary — a scheduled job, a service call, and an agent delegating to another agent have no logged-in person behind them, and giving them a human role to satisfy an authorization gate is how automated execution silently inherits human authority.
Breakwater does not resolve principals; the host does (see
breakwater-purpose-and-boundaries.md). It only needs to tell a person from a process so a guarded agent can refuse the latter by default.