Act 01 · Intent declared
Before anything happens at the runtime boundary, the agent declares its intent in natural language. This is the only thing that has happened so far. No token. No action. No effect.
// Incoming intent · agent declared
Deploy the authentication service to production.
AGENT claude-code-sonnet-4-6 · ACTOR ops@acme-corp.io · TENANT acme-corp
Act 02 · Compilation
Natural language is interpreted by the Large Intent Model. Hypotheses are ranked by confidence. A structured IntentRequest is produced — taxonomy-anchored, schema-validated, ready for evaluation.
“Deploy the authentication service to production.”
{
"intentType": "sdlc.deploy.production",
"proposedAction": "deploy",
"targetSystem": "acme-corp/auth-svc",
"adapterId": "github-actions-adapter",
"riskContext": {
"baseRiskScore": 72,
"touchesProduction": true
} }Act 03 · Conformance
You declared the steps. Intended matches each intent against your business process and scores sequence conformance. Out-of-order actions are surfaced before execution — not after.
Act 04 · Decision
Your policy set is evaluated against the intent. Each clause fires or passes. The decision is a single verdict — ALLOW, REQUIRE_APPROVAL, DENY — and the rationale is preserved.
Authority Decision
REQUIRE_APPROVAL
Act 05 · Minting
Pending approval, a cryptographic Authority Token is minted — Ed25519-signed, scoped to one action, single-use, with a hard expiry. Nothing executes without it. Watch it form.
Act 06 · Presentation
The token travels to the connector at the execution boundary. The connector verifies it — not Intended. If it holds, the gate opens. If anything is off, the action is refused there, in the target system itself.
Authority Token
minting…GitHub Actions Connector · verification
Act 07 · Audit chain
The intent, the hypothesis, the policies that fired, the token, the connector verification — every step is sealed and hash-linked to the prior. Any future read can reconstruct the complete reasoning behind any autonomous action.
Total elapsed time · in production
0ms
And the whole ceremony you just witnessed runs ~50× faster than you can blink.
Cryptographic mint measured in this session · other figures are production p50 with realistic seeded data
Nothing on this page was illustrated. Every artifact you saw is the actual thing: an EdDSA (Ed25519) signed JWT, verified in your browser, a real audit hash chain, a real policy evaluation, a real conformance score. Take the token with you.