Trust becomes concrete when a system can expose its controls, decision points, and evidence rather than asking people to infer them.

This pillar collects notes and artifacts on policy boundaries, provenance, observability, and runtime proof.

Start with a worked example: The Agent Audit Packet is a downloadable bundle showing the evidence a governed agent decision should produce — traces, schemas, policy, and provenance for one correlated run.

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Canonical questions

What boundaries exist in the system, and what trust posture applies at each one?

What must be proven at runtime rather than assumed from location, ownership, or role?

Where do policy decisions live, where are they enforced, and what evidence survives after the decision?

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Primary references

  • NIST SP 800-207 Zero trust architecture as a baseline for explicit trust decisions.
  • W3C PROV Provenance as structured evidence for assessing trustworthiness.
  • Open Policy Agent Policy decision and enforcement separation as an operational design pattern.

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