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Digest-bound guide

Bounded execution for a custom enterprise agent

How should execution be bounded for a custom enterprise agent?

Custom enterprise agent decision guide for bounded execution, connecting Maha's implemented machine controls to book concepts without treating the books as technical evidence.

Bounded answer

For custom enterprise agent, bind an enterprise-agent tool request to an authenticated identity, exact allowlist, request digest, quota, deadline, and endpoint before execution. Refuse the call if any binding is missing, stale, substituted, or broader than the grant.

Input contract

What must be fixed first

Authenticated principal and credential fingerprint

Exact tool and endpoint selector

Active grant with scope and expiry

Request digest, quota ceiling, and deadline

Procedure

Work the decision in order

  1. 1

    Resolve the credential to one active principal.

  2. 2

    Match the requested tool and endpoint to the grant.

  3. 3

    Reserve quota against the replay-safe request identifier.

  4. 4

    Execute only the frozen selector inside its time and resource bounds.

  5. 5

    Record outcome, consumed quota, and an immutable receipt.

Expected outputs

  • Allow or refuse decision with reason code
  • Bounded execution result or no result
  • Digest-bound execution receipt

Refuse when

  • Selector or endpoint differs from the authorized value.
  • Grant is absent, expired, revoked, or already exhausted.
  • The same request identifier arrives with different content.
  • A custom integration must not become a path around the same controls applied to standard clients.

Questions this guide answers

What is the minimum safe bounded execution for a custom enterprise agent?

For custom enterprise agent, bind an enterprise-agent tool request to an authenticated identity, exact allowlist, request digest, quota, deadline, and endpoint before execution. Refuse the call if any binding is missing, stale, substituted, or broader than the grant.

Which identity fields must remain bound for a custom enterprise agent?

Preserve tenant, agent deployment, principal, tool, endpoint, and policy; refuse the operation when any edge is missing or belongs to another lifecycle.

What should happen on an exact replay?

Return the original bounded decision or result without consuming quota, delivering, or acknowledging a second time.

What role does the linked book play?

It contributes a conceptual framing for boundaries, resilience, or governance. It is not evidence that the technical control exists or works.

What does this guide not establish about a custom enterprise agent?

A custom integration must not become a path around the same controls applied to standard clients.

Limits

  • A custom integration must not become a path around the same controls applied to standard clients.
  • The linked book supplies a conceptual lens only; the operational contract and implementation remain the authority for machine behavior.
  • This guide does not authorize production mutation, payment, deployment, or access to a private evidence corpus.