Non-human identity (NHI)

Identities belonging to machines, services, and agents rather than people. Agents are the fastest-growing and least-governed class of NHI.

Learn more: Agent Identity

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

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On-behalf-of (OBO) chain
The unbroken provenance recorded on a credential (who authorized the action, what scope was granted, and how deep the delegation goes) so an audit walks back to a human.
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Prompt injection
An attack that manipulates an agent through crafted input (in a prompt, a tool result, or retrieved content) to make it act against policy.
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Red teaming
Continuous adversarial testing of AI systems (jailbreaks, extraction, manipulation) with findings turned into enforcement policy and re-scanned to prove the fix.
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RFC 8693 (token exchange)
The standard that lets one token be exchanged for another with attenuated scope: the basis for verifiable agent-to-agent delegation.
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Scope attenuation
Narrowing permissions at each delegation hop so a sub-agent can never hold more authority than the agent that delegated to it.
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Shadow agents
Agents running across clouds, IDEs, and SaaS that no one inventoried or assigned an owner: the unmanaged majority of an enterprise's agent footprint.
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