Governance Deep Dive: Governing Agent-to-Agent Delegation

When agents hand work to other agents, authority travels with it, and ungoverned delegation chains quietly manufacture permissions nobody granted.

Delegation is how work scales and how authority leaks. Every hop is a chance for scope to grow, context to vanish, and the original grant to become a rumor.

Delegation constraints that hold

• Delegated scope can only narrow, never widen, per hop.
• Chain depth is bounded and each hop is audited with the full lineage.
• Revoking the root grant severs every delegation descended from it.

Use the AuthGuardian, trust levels, and architecture guide to keep delegated authority attenuating instead of amplifying.