Pre-action authority receipts for tool and agent orchestration

[rpelevin]

I’m testing an authority-before-action receipt pattern for agent and tool orchestration.

The gap I’m looking at is narrow: before an agent executes a consequential action, can the workflow prove that this exact action was authorized before execution?

For this class of workflow, the boundary seems especially relevant around privileged tool calls, workflow transitions, data export, and permission changes.

Reference benchmark:
https://github.com/neurarelay/relay-action-card#agent-authority-benchmark

Dry-run command:

npm run benchmark:agent-authority -- --dry-run --json --source=github_discussion --campaign=agent_authority_week --surface=semantic_kernel_tool_authority

The benchmark is refs-only and local/dry-run: no private payloads, no downstream execution by Neura, and no claim that this project has adopted, endorsed, integrated, or been evaluated by it.

Question for maintainers/users here: is a pre-action authority receipt a useful boundary for this repo’s agent workflows, or would the better insertion point be somewhere else in the execution lifecycle?