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Decide how much drift you will accept.
Not all drift is an emergency. Some divergence between declared and deployed authority is routine. KYE Authority Drift Budget™ lets you set the line. You define a tolerance per scope. Drift inside the budget is tracked quietly. Drift that breaches it alerts or blocks. Your team stops chasing every minor change and focuses on the ones that actually matter, saving hours each week.
The problem in one sentence
A drift alarm that fires on every tiny change is an alarm your team learns to ignore.
Pure drift detection is binary. Either deployed state matches declared state, or it does not. In a busy estate, small benign divergences happen all day. If every one is an alert, the signal drowns. KYE Authority Drift Budget™ adds judgement. It lets you say how much drift is acceptable, and where, before anyone is woken up.
How a budget works
A drift budget is a tolerance you set per scope, the same idea as an error budget in reliability engineering.
- Set the budget. Define how much authority drift is acceptable for a given scope or agent.
- Track consumption. Each divergence draws down the budget for that scope.
- Stay quiet inside it. Drift within budget is logged, not escalated.
- Act at the threshold. When a scope nears or breaches its budget, the add-on alerts or blocks.
- Review and reset. Budgets refresh on a cadence you control, with the history retained.
It builds on drift detection
KYE Authority Drift Budget™ sits on top of the same Reconciliation Engine™ signals that Stable Drift Detection uses.
Stable Drift Detection tells you that deployed authority diverged from declared. KYE Authority Drift Budget™ tells you whether that divergence matters yet. The two work together. Detection is the sensor. The budget is the policy. KYE Protocol™ seals every budget decision as evidence, so an auditor can see exactly what tolerance was set and when it was breached.
The value for your team
KYE Authority Drift Budget™ raises the signal-to-noise of your drift programme.
- Less noise. Quiet handling of in-budget drift cuts low-value alerts sharply.
- Clear priorities. A breached budget is an unambiguous call to act.
- Tunable per risk. A tight budget on high-risk agents, a looser one elsewhere.
- Defensible policy. You can show a regulator the exact drift tolerance you chose and why.
How it is sold
KYE Authority Drift Budget™ is an annual subscription add-on to a KYE Protocol™ platform tier.
It is billed as an annual subscription. It is the most accessible entry point into KYE Protocol™'s reconciliation add-ons. It is also a member of the KYE Advanced Assurance Bundle™, which packages the advanced add-ons at one price. Pricing is shared by email under our closed-registration policy.