Trust and principals
Explicit verifier trust, identity-agnostic principals, and control evidence.
Core concepts
Grants and delegation
How authority narrows across permission, resource, audience, time, and depth.
Action binding
How profiles bind semantic requests to canonical bytes.
Sealed execution
Why the verified action must be the only source of executable commands.
Four planes
Section titled “Four planes”The V1 protocol separates proof, evidence, execution, and control. This prevents identity evidence from silently becoming authority and prevents successful verification from silently becoming application execution.