// Definition
Evaluate before action
Pre-execution authorization binds policy to the commit point: deployment, transfer, purchase, write, external API call, or tool invocation. The decision must be available to the executor as a hard gate.
// Runtime
Authorization vs monitoring
Monitoring observes reality after the fact. Authorization shapes which realities can occur. For agents and automation, runtime authorization is the only control that scales with execution frequency, see AI execution governance and execution authorization.
// Irreversibility
Irreversible decision gates
Gates belong where rollback is expensive or impossible: financial transfer, production promotion, data export, safety interlock bypass. TrigGuard models this as a deterministic decision with a receipt.
// Related
Spoke links
// Hub
Category pillar
Return to the cluster hub: AI execution governance.