@techreport{sato-soos-mjwt-00,
    number =    {draft-sato-soos-mjwt-00},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sato-soos-mjwt/00/},
    author =    {Tom Sato},
    title =     {{The Mandate JWT (MJWT) for Agentic AI Systems}},
    pagetotal = 22,
    year =      2026,
    month =     may,
    day =       24,
    abstract =  {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{]}.},
}