Flowing Authority: Introducing Tenuo
Capability-based authorization for AI agents
Niki A. Niyikiza published on
8 min,
1470 words
What if authority followed the task, instead of the identity?
I’ve been scratching my head over that question for a while. Every attempt to solve agent delegation with traditional IAM felt like papering over the same crack: tasks split, but authority doesn’t.
Agents decompose tasks.
IAM consolidates authority.
The friction is structural.
I’ve been building Tenuo to experiment with the idea. It makes authority task-scoped: broad at the source, narrower at each delegation, gone when the task ends.
Rust core. Python bindings. ~27μs verification.
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