Unified Agency Architecture: A Control-Plane Architecture for Conditional Execution Authority
Ashley Harris 0009-0000-4470-9941 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026
Unified Agency Architecture (UAA) is a control-plane architecture for conditional execution authority in adaptive systems. The paper formalizes execution governance as a structural system property rather than a policy-layer or observational function. UAA defines execution authority as non-default, admissibility-derived, externally enforced, and constrained by monotone non-expansive evolution. The architecture distinguishes governance of execution from governance around execution and introduces formal dependency structures for admissibility, authorization, enforcement mediation, override governance, and fail-closed execution control. Related Resources Website:https://unifiedagencyarchitecture.org/ Repository:https://github.com/ORYNTH-systems Related Publication:Execution Governance: A Control-Plane Architecture for Mediating Actions of Adaptive Systems