OPEN AUTHORITY LAYEROPENAI AGENTS SDKMCP 2025-11-25
Mission Gate

Agents earn permission to do real work.

Mission governs the moment an AI agent crosses from prepared work into real-world consequence.

Exact action. Exact target. Exact input. Narrow grant. Human decision. Bounded execution. Signed receipt.

01ActionAgent proposes a typed external effect
02GrantTarget, input, tenant, policy, expiry
03DecisionApprove, revise, reject, or revoke
04ReceiptSigned provider result + trace proof
The missing primitive

Approval is a UI event. Authority is a verifiable contract.

Agent frameworks can pause for a person. Mission binds that decision to the exact action that may execute—and proves afterward that nothing else did.

Before executionTyped action envelope, consequence classification, exact payload and target digest.
At the boundaryTenant-bound, expiring, revocable, single-use or bounded-sequence authority.
After executionEd25519-signed receipt correlated to decision, grant, provider result, and OpenTelemetry trace.
When anything changesReplay, input mutation, target mutation, expiry, revocation, and tenant mismatch fail closed.
Reference implementation

One authority vocabulary across agent runtimes.

Mission adds the authority boundary without replacing your agent framework, IAM, policy engine, provider, or observability stack.

Runtime

OpenAI Agents SDK

Wrap a tool before the provider call, surface an authority interruption, then resume within the approved grant.

@gomission/openai-agents-adapter
Protocol

MCP 2025-11-25

Govern consequential MCP tool calls with version negotiation, fail-closed lifecycle handling, and explicit legacy exceptions.

@gomission/mcp
Vocabulary

Canonical schemas

Action, grant, decision, execution, receipt, signature, and public-key contracts with a conformance CLI.

@gomission/mission-schemas
Evidence

Signed receipts + OTel

Cryptographically bind policy and payload digests to trace context and provider outcomes for offline verification.

mission-execution-receipt/v2
Seven gates

The happy path is not the proof. Failure behavior is.

Mission is built around the cases that ordinary approval callbacks leave ambiguous.

Replay protectionTarget integrityInput integrityTenant isolationExpiryRevocationBounded scope
Trust Graduation

Cross-runtime earned authority.

Trust Graduation is Mission’s method and open protocol profile: agents start with preparation rights and earn bounded execution rights from evidence—not model confidence.

Mission Control is the reference approval interface and dogfood environment. Mission Gate is the portable infrastructure product.

01Prepare

Research, draft, rank, and stage with no external consequence.

02Ask at consequence

Classify the effect and present the exact boundary to a person.

03Execute within grant

Run only the approved target and payload within time and scope.

04Learn from reality

Receipts and outcomes influence future authority; preferences never authorize execution.

Three launch partners

Put one consequential action behind a production-grade authority boundary.

A focused 4–6 week production pilot for AI platforms and agent products already approaching real external actions.

01Select one runtime and action class
02Integrate the 30-minute governed-action proof
03Run replay, mutation, expiry, revocation, and tenant tests
04Verify signed receipts outside Mission
05Make a production, extend, or stop decision
The 30-minute proof

Attempt → interrupt → approve → execute within scope → verify.

If the action changes after approval, Mission refuses to execute it.