# 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.

Learn more: [Agent Authorization](/content/learn/ai-agent-authorization/index.html)

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

## Keep exploring the glossary.

### 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.  
Read → [Link](/content/glossary/delegation-depth/index.html)  
### DPoP  
Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession (RFC 9449): binds a token to a proof key so a stolen token is inert without it.  
Read → [Link](/content/glossary/dpop/index.html)  
### 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.  
Read → [Link](/content/glossary/ema/index.html)  
### Guardrails  
Inline detection and enforcement on an agent's prompts, tool calls, and responses: blocking unsafe actions in real time.  
Read → [Link](/content/glossary/guardrails/index.html)  
### 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.  
Read → [Link](/content/glossary/id-jag/index.html)  
### Identity provider (IdP)  
The system that issues and manages identities. Highflame extends your existing IdP to agents rather than replacing it.  
Read → [Link](/content/glossary/idp/index.html)