Delegation Control

Delegation control is the governance capability that limits how an AI agent can pass its authority to other agents or services.

Without delegation controls, an agent could grant excessive permissions to downstream agents, creating privilege escalation paths that bypass the original governance boundaries. Strong delegation control enforces that agents can only delegate a subset of their own permissions and that all delegations are logged.

Closely related concepts include Orchestrator Agent, Multi-Agent System, Agent Delegation, Sidecar Pattern (Agent). Each is defined in the Prefactor glossary.