Identify (ID) · Approval gating

Approval gating at the Self-declared layer

advisory · Bypassable by language alone

What agents exist, what they touch, what threats they face?

What this cell does

Agent reports last charter signature date, next review due, current charter version on registration. Refuses to start if charter is expired.

Artifacts (1)

record.yamlview on GitHub

# ABOUTME: What the self-declared layer records for the approval-gating concern, and which mismatch rules consume it.
# ABOUTME: Read by scripts/reconcile_inventory.py to compare the three layers against each other.

cell:
  id: approval-gating.in-agent
  concern: approval-gating
  layer: in-agent
  authority: self-declared
  records: "The agent reports the charter version it is running under and when it was last reviewed."

fields:
  - charter_version
  - last_charter_review

feeds_rules:
  - charter_integrity
  - review_overdue

Cell notes

Inventory, Approval gating / Self-declared

What this cell records. The agent's report of its charter freshness and its refusal to operate beyond the review window.

Fields

- last_charter_review_date
- next_review_due
- current_charter_version
- refuses_to_start_when_expired: true

The agent runtime checks next_review_due at startup. If the date is in the past, registration aborts. The reference daemon at ../../identity/in-agent/agent-register.py implements this check.

Citation

NIST CSF 2.0 ID.IM-01. NIST AI RMF GOVERN 1.5, MAP 4.1.

Crosswalk

NIST CSF 2 0	ID.IM-01
NIST AI RMF	GOVERN 1.5, MAP 4.1

Cite this cell: https://agenticcovenants.com/identify/approval-gating/in-agent/