AI Glossary

Authority matrix

The committed table of every seat's autonomous and gated lanes, enforced by the workflows that run the org rather than by instructions to the model.

Used on How it works.

See also

  • Guardrail

    A rule or check around a model that blocks or corrects unwanted input or output, such as a filter for unsafe content or a limit on which actions an agent may take.

  • Agent seat

    A named role in the org with a written charter, a lane of files it may write, and a line it cannot cross without a human.

  • Lane

    The set of files a seat may write, where anything changed outside it is counted and erased before the commit.

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This term

Orbyt Labs, Authority matrix (AI Glossary), Oct 18, 2026. https://www.orbytlabs.ai/orbyt-collective/glossary/authority-matrix

The dataset (JSON)

Orbyt Labs Glossaries (Oct 19, 2026), https://www.orbytlabs.ai/glossary#dataset

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