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.

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Part of the Agent Control Fabric: Highflame's identity, policy, and enforcement substrate for AI agents.

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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.
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DPoP

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

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

Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant. After SSO, the identity provider evaluates policy and issues an ID-JAG, which an MCP client exchanges for a server access token: the mechanism behind Enterprise Managed Authorization.
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Identity provider (IdP)

The system that issues and manages identities. Highflame extends your existing IdP to agents rather than replacing it.
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