Knowing which AI system performed an action is only part of the picture. Organizations require evidence of who authorized it, what was permitted, and what happened. GuardianChain brings these elements together in a record that can be inspected and verified.
Illustration of the proposed approach. People make the final decision.
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Who authorized?
We record who authorized the AI to act.
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What was allowed?
We capture the scope, limits, and duration of that permission.
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What was done by AI?
We link the AI’s actions to their recorded outcomes.
The challenge of AI governance
Five questions every organization needs to answer.
01Authority
Who authorized the AI to act, what was permitted, and for how long? A prompt alone is not a clear record of permission.
Record who granted permission, what the AI is allowed to do, and how long that permission lasts.
02Durable proof of changes
Logs held by the tool that did the work are not a record the recipient can lean on.
Link each AI action to its authorization and supporting evidence, creating a record the recipient can inspect.
03Continuity across tools
Work moves between assistants, editors and services. Context and limits are lost at each hop.
Carry authorization records across connected tools, keeping the original scope and limits visible. Coverage depends on integration.
04Independent verification
The party receiving the work needs to inspect it without trusting the producer's summary.
Provide a portable record recipients can check independently. Verification supports their decision; it does not replace acceptance.
05Audit and rollback
Security and incident teams need evidence they can reconstruct from, and a path back.
Record when permissions expire or are revoked, supporting audits and incident review. Guardian Chain does not perform rollback.
The chain we connectArchitecture overview
Four links. One evidence chain.
GuardianChain connects who authorized an action, its permitted scope, the consequential decision, and independently verifiable evidence of the outcome.
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Who allowed this?Human authority
A named, accountable person or role grants the action. A prompt or API key is not a grant.
Record contents: the accountable grantor and the grant itself.
Without it: an agent acts on a prompt or credential, and no one can show who allowed it.
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Within what limits?Bounded scope
What may be done, on which resources, under which conditions, and until when. Refusals and restraint are recorded too.
Record contents: the permitted actions, resources, conditions and expiry.
Without it: authority silently renews or widens across tools and sessions.
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What was decided and done?Machine action
The consequential decision made by an agent or automated system, linked to the authority and scope it relied on.
Record contents: the consequential decision, linked back to its grant and scope.
Without it: logs show what ran, but not whether it was allowed.
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Can someone else check it?Outcome evidence
A portable record a recipient can inspect independently, without trusting the producer's own summary.
Record contents: evidence references a recipient can inspect separately.
Without it: recipients accept work on the producer's word.
Why existing tools are not enough
Existing tools don’t provide the full picture.
Identity, orchestration, tool connectivity, policy, and logging all matter, and we build on them. However, none of these systems alone establishes a complete chain from human authorization to a verifiable outcome.
Typical coverage by category, in isolation. Individual products vary; this is our framing, not a benchmark.
Criteria
Identity providers
Agent orchestration
Tool connectivity
Policy engines
Logs and observability
GuardianChain architecture
Primary job
Authenticate people, services and agents
Plan and run multi-step agent work
Connect agents to tools and data
Evaluate rules at decision time
Record events inside each system
Connect everything, alongside the systems above
Who authorized
Partial coverage
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Architectural focus
Permitted scope
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Partial coverage
Partial coverage
Yes
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Architectural focus
Decision linked
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Yes
Yes
Partial coverage
Partial coverage
Architectural focus
Independently checkable
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Partial coverage
Architectural focus
Product inventory
Three components. One connected system.
Three architectural roles, with workflow fit and availability qualified through design-partner discussions.
Canonical authority and evidence substrate
GC-1
The record of who authorized what, within which scope, and what evidence exists for the outcome. The other parts depend on it.
Controlled scheming evaluationsOpenAI's o1 System Card reported basic in-context scheming in deliberately constructed Apollo Research evaluations, not normal deployment rates.
High-stakes simulationsAnthropic's summer 2026 research documented covert sabotage, fraud assistance and motivated mislabeling in simulations, not real incidents.
Real systems, in evaluationsAnthropic reported four incidents of unauthorized access to real third-party systems during misconnected cyber evaluations. Not customer deployments.
Lifecycle obligationsEU AI Act high-risk requirements include logging, documentation and human oversight on a 2027 to 2028 timetable. No certification or automatic compliance is claimed here.
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