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title: "Analyst Category Definition — Agentic Governance™ · KYE Protocol™"
description: "Analyst-grade definition of the Agentic Governance™ category: its primitives (act, authority, purpose, scope, evidence), its boundary, and the finality it resolves to."
url: https://kyeprotocol.com/analyst-briefing/category-definition/
lang: en
source: "KYE Protocol"
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> Analyst-grade definition of the Agentic Governance™ category: its primitives (act, authority, purpose, scope, evidence), its boundary, and the finality it resolves to.

Analyst Briefing

# Agentic Governance™, defined.

The analyst-grade definition of the category, in the precise vocabulary the rest of the briefing uses. **[Agentic Governance™](https://kyeprotocol.com/agent-governance-category/) is governance FOR agentic systems** — any system where authority to act is delegated across humans, AI agents, and the tools they invoke.

[Competitive landscape](https://kyeprotocol.com/analyst-briefing/competitive-landscape/) [Fact sheet](https://kyeprotocol.com/analyst-briefing/fact-sheet/)

Agentic Governance ™ with Authority Finality ™ .

## The five primitives

- **Act** — something an agentic system does that has consequences.
- **Authority** — the delegated permission that licensed the act.
- **Purpose** — the declared reason the authority was admitted.
- **Scope** — the bounds the authority was admitted within.
- **Evidence** — the signed chain that resolves the whole to finality.

## The category boundary

In scope: who held authority for an act, within what purpose and scope, and whether that is provable. Out of scope (and consumed as input): whether a model is fair, statistically valid, or free of prompt injection. The boundary is what keeps the category coherent — and what makes it distinct from the adjacent categories on the [landscape map](https://kyeprotocol.com/analyst-briefing/competitive-landscape/).

## In closing

The definition compresses to one essence: every act has authority; every authority has finality.

Canonical KYE™ surfaces referenced on this page: [KYE Protocol™](https://kyeprotocol.com/).