Episode 190 - GluuFederation/identerati-office-hours GitHub Wiki

Title: The Agentic Desired Outcome Contract

• Host: Mike Schwartz, Founder/CEO Gluu
• Guest: Nick Gamb, Principal Solutions Architect, Strata Identity
• Guest: Guest: Eve Maler, President, Founder Venn Factory

Channels

• Linkedin Event
• Youtube Video
• Short

Description

Agentic workflows need more than broad tool access: they need intent-bound authorization that ties every action back to a declared human outcome. This episode explores Desired Outcome Contracts as time-scoped, cryptographically verifiable agreements that define permitted actions, prohibited actions, consent context, evaluation rules, and execution history. We discuss how DOCs can bring human-in-the-loop consent, MCP integration, OAuth step-up, delegation, and hash-chained auditability into a practical control model for AI agents.

Homework

• Desired Outcome Contracts (DOC) — Intent-Bound Authorization for AI Agent Workflows

Takeaways

• ⚡ Some common themes are emerging from the primordial soup of agentic standards. One is that we need both a natural language and machine structured ways to bound the authority granted to agents acting on behalf of humans.

• ⚡ How do we express intent? Easier said then done, even with natural language. The DOC Protocol tries to solve this challenge in a more wholistic way.

• ⚡ The use cases for agentic delegation vary across B2B, B2C, and C2B landscapes. For example "MyTerms" might be great to constrain authority for C2B but not for B2B.

• ⚡ Schema sounds boring, but without some strategy on how to describe entities, resources and actions, interoperability may remain out of reach.

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