Glossary

Term	Meaning
Agent Policy	Portable decision and trace facts for policy around agent actions.
Policy decision	Result of evaluating a proposed action.
Subject	Actor requesting an action: user, agent, service, subagent, or session.
Action	Proposed operation: tool call, model call, export, memory write, delegation, and similar.
Resource	Target of an action: file, URL, artifact, source, model, tool, credential, or peer.
Context	Facts used to evaluate policy: mode, trust boundary, sensitivity, time, cost, tenant, and refs.
Risk scope	Typed boundary affected by the action.
Obligation	Enforceable duty attached to a decision.
Advice	Non-binding guidance attached to a decision.
Approval request	Structured request for approval or escalation.
Permission grant	Bounded capability issued after policy evaluation or approval.
Waiver	Explicit bounded override of a policy block.
Policy trace	Correlation graph for policy inputs, rules, decisions, approvals, grants, waivers, runtime, telemetry, and evidence.