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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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