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   <front>
      <title>The Mandate JWT (MJWT) for Agentic AI Systems</title>
      <author initials="" surname="Sato" fullname="Tom Sato">
         <organization>MyAuberge K.K.</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="May" day="24" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   AI agents operating in automated workflows require a structured
   authorization credential that binds agent authority not merely to
   an action type, but to a specific governed resource instance, a
   specific human principal, a specific Cedar action scope, and a
   specific mission context.  Existing workload credentials provide
   identity but not governance binding.  Existing OAuth tokens provide
   scope but not resource-instance specificity, human principal
   linkage, or mandate issuance chain traceability.

   This document defines the Mandate JWT (MJWT): a WIMSE workload
   credential profile that grants an AI agent authority to perform a
   specified set of Cedar actions on a specific Sovereign Object
   instance under the oversight of a named human principal.  The MJWT
   carries governance claims not present in general-purpose workload
   credentials: a Cedar action scope, a Sovereign Object instance
   binding, a human principal identifier, a mission reference, and a
   mandate ceiling.  The Narrowing Property -- by which a child mandate
   is always a strict subset of its parent in all authorization
   dimensions -- is normatively defined.  The MJWT is the authorization
   primitive referenced by [I-D.sato-soos-idp], [I-D.sato-soos-hem],
   [I-D.sato-soos-gar], [I-D.sato-soos-cap], and [I-D.sato-soos-sov].

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-sato-soos-mjwt-00" />
   
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