For API & identity teams · scoped agent authority

Illustrative sector walk-through — it shows how KYE Protocol would govern an API gateway & identity stack and does not imply an existing deployment or commercial relationship with any vendor.

An AI agent requested an API scope it was never delegated. KYE refused the call.

Built for a platform like yours. Your API gateway and identity server already broker tokens and scopes between clients, services and users — and now AI agents call those APIs on someone’s behalf. KYE Protocol checks the agent’s delegated scope at the moment of the call — and refuses any invocation beyond what its principal actually granted. Each refusal is sealed as a receipt your security team can replay, cutting an access-abuse investigation from days to minutes.

AI integration agent
call admin API · scope exceeded
KYEdelegated scope check
Refusedscope exceeded · signed Admittedwithin scope · signed
Stopped before the call lands. The invocation is refused because it exceeds the scope the agent’s principal delegated — and the refusal is signed and verifiable, so you can prove to security and audit that least-privilege held at the moment of the act.
That refusal, sealed REFUSED · SCOPE_EXCEEDED kye:evidence:4a8c… Replay & verify →
1 · What KYE governs in your stack

You keep your platform. KYE governs the scope boundary.

Your platform already issues tokens, enforces scopes and routes calls across services. KYE Protocol adds the one check an AI agent makes it urgent to enforce: at the moment of a consequential call, is this inside the authority the agent’s principal actually delegated — not just the token it happens to hold?

  • API invocation — a privileged call is admitted only when the agent’s delegated scope covers this operation; a call beyond that scope is refused, not waved through on a broad token.
  • Scope & token grants — requesting or escalating a scope beyond the principal’s delegation is refused — over-broad grants are contained at the moment they are used, not just at issue time.
  • Every act sealed — admit or refuse, the decision packs an Evidence Pack and a Replay-Proof verifiable from public keys alone — your access-audit file, built as it happens.
2 · The honest boundary

KYE proves the basis — it does not stand in for your gateway or identity server.

This is a governance layer, not an API gateway or IAM. KYE Protocol does not issue your tokens, terminate TLS, or route your traffic.

It checks the agent’s delegated authority at the action boundary, admits or refuses, and seals the proof. A call outside the agent’s scope is refused and routed to a human step-up — the refusal is itself evidence. See how the delegation chain is drawn on the authority diagram, then walk a sealed decision on the Evidence Pack demo.

3 · See it on your own flow

Seeing is believing. Bring one real flow.

In a 20-minute walk-through we take one of your live flows — a privileged API call, a scope escalation, an agent-to-agent invocation — and show the AI action refused or admitted against the agent’s delegated authority, then hand you the sealed receipt to replay yourself. No credentials to share: the proof verifies against a public key set, the same runtime enforcement KYE Protocol uses to govern itself.