KYE™ Autonomy Tiers™
Four KYE™ Autonomy Tiers™. One runtime-control floor at each step.
EC-Council ADG names three autonomy tiers (HITL / HOTL / HOOTL). KYE™ Autonomy Tiers™ compresses those into a sharper four-tier ladder so the runtime-control floor at each step is unambiguous: A0 Human-only · A1 Assist · A2 Scoped delegation · A3 Autonomous with Authority Finality™. Each tier names the KAC™ controls and the evidence schemas that MUST be operating for an action to be admissible at that tier. The canonical set lives at public/examples/autonomy-tiers/canonical-tiers.json.
KYE™ Autonomy Tiers™: side by side
Demo dataYou learn: How the options differ, criterion by criterion. You can: Pick a column to light it.
| KAC™-1 Entity Registry | — | required | required | required |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KAC™-2 Delegation Envelope™ | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-3 Chain of Authority Map | — | — | — | required |
| KAC™-4 Tool & MCP Authority Register | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-5 Action Admissibility™ Gate | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-6 Runtime Policy Resolution | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-7 Evidence Capture at T=0 | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-8 Replay Proof | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-9 Authority Finality™ Record | — | — | — | required (A3 floor) |
| KAC™-10 Revocation and Expiry Control | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-11 Human Oversight and Escalation | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-12 KYE™ Seal™ — Assurance Record | — | — | required | required |
How this widget is built
- Demonstrates
- Comparison
- Components
- The options this page compares
- The criteria it compares them on
- Flow
- Each criterion across the options, as the page sets it out. Architecture diagram
- Used on
- /autonomy-tiers/: On this page, after its opening.
The ladder
A0 → A1 → A2 → A3 — sequenced, not parallel.
Each rung declares the runtime-control floor that must be operating for an action to be admissible at that tier. Authorised actions climb; refused or de-escalated actions slide back down.
Per-tier control matrix
Which controls must be operating at which tier.
Twelve controls, four tiers. The runtime checks the row for your declared tier and denies any action whose control is not operating.
| Control | A0 | A1 | A2 | A3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KAC™-1 Entity Registry | — | required | required | required |
| KAC™-2 Delegation Envelope™ | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-3 Chain of Authority Map | — | — | — | required |
| KAC™-4 Tool & MCP Authority Register | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-5 Action Admissibility™ Gate | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-6 Runtime Policy Resolution | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-7 Evidence Capture at T=0 | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-8 Replay Proof | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-9 Authority Finality™ Record | — | — | — | required (A3 floor) |
| KAC™-10 Revocation and Expiry Control | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-11 Human Oversight and Escalation | — | — | required | required |
| KAC™-12 KYE™ Seal™ — Assurance Record | — | — | required | required |
ADG mapping
HITL / HOTL / HOOTL ↔ A0 / A1 / A2 / A3
An operator who already uses the ADG oversight vocabulary maps it onto the ladder without re-classifying a single agent.
- HITL ↔ A1 / lower-A2. Human-in-the-loop on every decision. KYE™ optional at A1; KYE™ required from A2 upward.
- HOTL ↔ upper-A2. Human-on-the-loop — approver on-call for critical-point reviews. KAC™-11 is the runtime gate that lifts the right action at the right moment.
- HOOTL ↔ A3. Human-out-of-the-loop except for declared exceptions. Authority Finality™ (KAC™-9) is the A3 floor — the action's chain is provably terminal before the supervisor learns it happened.
Pick the tier. The control floor follows.
An agent deployment declares its tier; the runtime refuses to admit any action that requires a control the tier does not have. Honest by construction.
Canonical KYE™ surfaces referenced on this page: KYE Protocol™.