Integrate with the systems that already act.
ProofGrid’s authority model sits at boundaries between signals, autonomous principals and execution systems.
- Attributable principal
- Valid authority origin
- Current policy and trust
- Enforceable action decision
Signal and identity categories
Identity systems and cloud identity can provide human, service and workload context. Agent runtimes and MCP or other tool layers can expose the acting principal, task and requested operation. SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR and threat-intelligence systems can contribute relevant risk or workflow signals.
These are supported architectural integration categories: places a system may need to exchange context with an authority layer. They are not a list of shipped ProofGrid connectors. A specific product integration should be validated with the ProofGrid team before it is treated as available.
- Identity and cloud identity
- Agent runtimes and MCP/tool layers
- SIEM, EDR/XDR and SOAR
- Threat intelligence and operating context
Execution categories
Enterprise APIs and cloud infrastructure can expose financial, data and administrative operations. Industrial systems can affect physical processes. Security tools can isolate endpoints or change cloud configuration. The authority check belongs before the consequential call, but execution remains with the system designed for that domain.
An integration plan should identify direct and indirect paths to each protected action. If an agent can call the same API through an unchecked fallback, policy at the primary tool boundary will not hold.
Plan the exchange
For each action, map principal identity, grant origin, policy inputs, current signals, approval path, expected latency, failure behavior and outcome evidence. Decide how revocation reaches active agents and what happens when a decision service or network link is unavailable.
Those questions guide a responsible integration conversation without inventing install commands, public APIs or adapter availability.
Trust context from source systems
An identity provider may know the human and workload. A cloud identity service may know the service principal. An EDR may know endpoint posture. A SIEM may correlate incidents. A threat-intelligence source may add indicators. An agent runtime may know the active task and tool request. Each source has a different authority over its facts. The integration should preserve provenance and freshness rather than flattening every signal into a generic “trusted” flag.
ProofGrid can be designed to consume these categories of context when making an authority decision. Whether a named vendor or product has a shipped connector is a separate factual question. This page does not make that claim.
- Source and timestamp for each signal
- Principal and task correlation
- Required versus optional context
- Revocation propagation
- Failure mode if a source is unavailable
Execution remains domain-owned
Enterprise APIs enforce their own transaction rules. SOAR and endpoint tools execute remediation. Industrial controllers and safety systems govern physical processes. An authority layer should neither pretend to detect every threat nor override local safety protections. Its purpose is to decide whether this autonomous principal may request this effect under the current grant and policy.
For each execution category, identify the actual last point that can reject the action, the semantics of a timeout, and the evidence returned after execution. If the executor can be reached through another unchecked path, the integration boundary is incomplete.
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