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title: "The Authority Simulator™ — watch an AI action be admitted or refused · KYE Protocol™"
description: "Set a scenario — an AI actor, an action, a purpose, an authority, a jurisdiction — and watch KYE Protocol™ admit or refuse it at the moment of the action. The action climbs the cypress: Purpose → Authority → Delegation → Execution → Evidence → Finality, lighting each stage or stopping at a refusal."
url: https://kyeprotocol.com/simulator/
lang: en
source: "KYE Protocol"
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> Set a scenario — an AI actor, an action, a purpose, an authority, a jurisdiction — and watch KYE Protocol™ admit or refuse it at the moment of the action. The action climbs the cypress: Purpose → Authority → Delegation → Execution → Evidence → Finality, lighting each stage or stopping at a refusal.

Illustrative

# The Authority Simulator™ — see the decision, not just the outcome.

Set a scenario below — an AI actor, an action, the purpose it was authorised for, the state of that authority, and a jurisdiction. Then watch the action **climb the cypress**: [the Map of KYE™](https://kyeprotocol.com/map-of-kye/) lights each stage as KYE Protocol™ evaluates it — Purpose, Authority, Delegation, Execution, Evidence, Finality — or stops cold at a refusal, before the side effect ever lands. Change one input and watch the verdict change.

[Run it on your own action](https://kyeprotocol.com/poc/) Try the simulator

Should this action have been allowed? Watch KYE Protocol™ decide.

## Try it — pick a scenario

Each scenario runs the same six-stage chain on the canonical cypress. Watch where the action is admitted (green) and where it is refused (red) — the refusal always stops the climb before the side effect. The most instructive ones are the failures: an expired authority, an out-of-scope purpose, a copilot reaching above its level.

Authorised payment Authority expired Out of purpose Copilot oversteps Advisory answer

ADMITTED — sealed to Authority Finality™

An L3 payment, in scope, with valid authority. Every stage admits; the decision is sealed and replay-verifiable from public keys alone.

REFUSED at Authority Resolution™

The authority that would license the payment has expired. The action is refused at Authority — before the money ever moves.

REFUSED at Purpose Permission™

The action falls outside the declared purpose it was authorised for, and is refused at the very first stage.

REFUSED at Delegation

An L1 advisory copilot attempts an L3 payment. Purpose and authority check out, but delegating payment authority it does not hold is refused.

ADMITTED — recorded

An L1 copilot publishes an answer to a customer. It is admitted and recorded with an Evidence Pack™; Authority Finality™ is reserved for L3+ consequential actions.

Illustrative & deterministic: each scenario shows the KYE Protocol™ decision flow; it does not call the production Decision Engine and makes no claim about any real system.

## How the decision is made

KYE Protocol™ does not score the model or watch the logs after the fact. It judges the _action_ at the moment it is attempted, against the same six-stage chain the simulator walks — fail-closed, so an action that fails any stage is refused before its side effect. The actor's level (from the [KYE™ Consequential Actor Framework™](https://kyeprotocol.com/consequential-actors/)) sets how far it must climb:

- **Purpose & Authority** — was the action within its declared purpose, and does a valid authority license it? Most refusals happen here.
- **Delegation** — an L1 copilot cannot quietly perform an L3 payment; delegating authority it does not hold is refused.
- **Execution → Evidence → Finality** — admitted at the moment, recorded as a signed [Evidence Pack™](https://kyeprotocol.com/evidence-pack/), and for L3+ actions sealed to Authority Finality™, replay-verifiable against the EU AI Act™, NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 42001.

## Run it on a real action.

The simulator is illustrative; the engine behind it is not. If your team is putting an AI actor into a consequential path — a payment, an account, a clinical recommendation, a trade — a governed pilot runs this decision on your real workflow and leaves you with a signed [Evidence Pack™](https://kyeprotocol.com/evidence-pack/) you can hand to a regulator. Adopt AI without losing legitimate control.

[Start a governed pilot](https://kyeprotocol.com/poc/) [The trust layer for consequential action](https://kyeprotocol.com/trust-layer/)

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