# Code agent

Autonomous software that reads code, runs commands, calls tools, and changes systems on a developer's behalf. Securing one means controlling what it can access while it runs, and proving afterward what it did.

Learn more: [Code agent security](/content/code-agents/index.html)

Part of [the Agent Control Fabric](/content/platform/index.html): Highflame's identity, policy, and enforcement substrate for AI agents.

## Glossary Entries

### Confused deputy  
An attack where a low-privilege agent tricks a higher-privilege one into acting on its behalf. Scope attenuation prevents it: a sub-agent provably cannot exceed its parent's authority.

### Delegated authority  
The model where an agent acts on behalf of a human or another agent, holding strictly less authority than the principal that authorized it, and provably distinct from that principal.

### Delegation depth  
How many on-behalf-of hops a credential sits from its original human authorizer. Highflame enforces depth as a first-class policy primitive.

### DPoP  
Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession (RFC 9449): binds a token to a proof key so a stolen token is inert without it.

### Enterprise Managed Authorization (EMA)  
An MCP extension that lets a company's identity provider decide, through corporate SSO, which MCP servers an agent may connect to. It governs admission, not what the agent does once inside.

### Guardrails  
Inline detection and enforcement on an agent's prompts, tool calls, and responses: blocking unsafe actions in real time.