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title: "Chain of Authority — Global View · KYE Protocol™"
description: "A live global view of the chain of authority: principals, delegations, agents, capabilities and grants rendered as arcs across the jurisdictions KYE Protocol™ maps — every hop authority-checked, every handoff evidenced. Rendered from the canonical example corpus, not mock data."
url: https://kyeprotocol.com/authority-globe/
lang: en
source: "KYE Protocol"
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> A live global view of the chain of authority: principals, delegations, agents, capabilities and grants rendered as arcs across the jurisdictions KYE Protocol™ maps — every hop authority-checked, every handoff evidenced. Rendered from the canonical example corpus, not mock data.

# The chain of authority, as a living globe

Every consequential AI action stands on a chain: a principal delegates, an agent acts, a capability is granted, evidence is sealed. **KYE Protocol™** renders that chain as what it really is — arcs of authority moving across jurisdictions, every hop checked at the moment it happens.

**See it run** Follow who may act for whom: delegations, scopes and their expiry.

[Open the delegations view](https://kyeprotocol.com/terminal/#delegations) [Read the terms](https://kyeprotocol.com/glossary/)

[Start a governed pilot](https://kyeprotocol.com/poc/) [Why runtime authority](https://kyeprotocol.com/ai-exponential/)

## Global view

Arcs travel between the jurisdictions KYE Protocol™ maps — the EU AI Act, UK SM&CR, MAS, APRA and Canadian PIPEDA regimes among the 249 frameworks in the coverage registry; each waypoint is an authority check, not decoration.

**Chain of Authority™** global view · live projection

principal / delegation
agent acting
grant evidenced

Honest rendering: the arcs animate the canonical example corpus — `public/examples/authority-path-discovery.json` and `public/examples/delegation.json` — projected onto the covered jurisdictions. It is a faithful view of how the protocol moves authority, not a simulation of customer traffic.

This globe shows how authority _moves_. To see _where_ KYE Protocol™ is covered — and which jurisdictions sit dark and requestable — open the [Coverage Atlas night-map](https://kyeprotocol.com/atlas/), the complementary coverage view.

## One chain, walked end to end

This is the actual five-hop authority path from the canonical example — the same shape every KYE™ deployment produces, for tracing one incident or sampling a whole quarter.

1. **Principal.** `kye:org:acme_ltd` — the organisation on whose authority everything below stands.
2. **Delegation.** `kye:delegation:finance_team_to_agent` — your finance team delegates, purpose-bound and time-boxed per ISO/IEC 42001 clause 6.
3. **Actor.** `kye:agent:finance_agent_001` — the AI agent that will act. It is a first-class principal with a verifiable identity your auditors can resolve.
4. **Capability.** `kye:capability:payment.prepare` — the one action class this chain authorises; nothing ambient.
5. **Authority grant.** `kye:authority:grant:payment_prepare_001` — the runtime grant, sealed into an [Evidence Pack™](https://kyeprotocol.com/evidence-pack/) any reader can replay-verify.

Boundary: [KYE Protocol™](https://kyeprotocol.com/) governs whether each hop may carry authority — it does not route payments or run the agent. Break a hop (revoke the delegation, expire the grant) and the chain fails closed at the next check.

## Why a globe and not an org chart

Because your authority no longer lives in one building, one tenant, or one legal system — and a regulator reads it that way too.

- Your agents act across borders by default. A delegation granted under UK SM&CR can touch an EU AI Act high-risk system minutes later.
- Each hop changes which duties bind — EU AI Act Article 12 logging here, MAS TRM controls there. The handoff is itself an authority decision, checked and evidenced.
- Sprawl hides in the arcs. Orphaned delegations and over-scoped grants light up when you see your authority as a graph, not a list.

[Find your authority sprawl](https://kyeprotocol.com/authority-discovery/)

Canonical KYE™ surfaces referenced on this page: [Authority Graph™](https://kyeprotocol.com/authority-lifecycle/).