Delegated Authority. A scoped, attributable, time-bounded grant that lets an actor perform specific consequential work on behalf of a principal, platform, policy, or accountable human. Delegated authority is not ambient permission and not model confidence: it must name who granted the authority, who may exercise it, what actions it covers, which policy constrains it, when it expires, which revocation rule can end it early, what lifecycle state it is in, and what evidence must be preserved when it is used.
A delegated authority becomes executable through an action-rights envelope: allowed actions, execution mode, tier ceiling, approval mode, policy constraints, and scope.