FOI, Fiduciary Office Intervener, AgDR v1.8, terminal accountability, human-in-the-loop, CBCA s.122, fiduciary duty, escalation protocol, governance breach, cryptographic seal, Ed25519 signature

AgDR Core Spec v1.8

The FOI Definition.

The Fiduciary Office Intervener (FOI) is the mandatory terminal human node in the AgDR delta chain. No decision is legally sovereign without a named human fiduciary as its final anchor.

The Terminal Node Concept

In autonomous systems, accountability often diffuses into a "responsibility vacuum." The FOI role is designed to collapse this diffusion into a single, named, legally-authorized individual. Under CBCA s.122, the FOI holds the ultimate duty of care for the agent's actions within their designated scope.

FOI Identification Schema

Machine-Readable Signature Registry 
FOI_IDENTITY := {
  "actor": "Full Legal Name",
  "title": "Fiduciary Role (e.g., CCO, CEO, CMO)",
  "scope": "Namespace (e.g., fin.trading.equity)",
  "authority_ref": "AgDR-Hash-of-Board-Resolution",
  "pubkey": "Ed25519-Fiduciary-Key-Identifier"
}

Escalation Triggers

An FOI is not a day-to-day reviewer; they are a governance intervener. Escalation occurs when an agent reaches a predefined risk or logic threshold.

Domain Terminal Trigger (FOI Required)
Capital Markets Transaction exceeds Aggregate Risk Limit (ARL) or VaR threshold.
Healthcare Critical intervention recommendation with < 92% logic confidence.
Legal / Gov Decisions affecting constitutionally protected rights or large-scale data sets.

The Fiduciary Signature

The FOI is the only node in the delta chain that provides a Fiduciary Signature. This is not just a digital sign-off; it is a cryptographic seal that confirms a human fiduciary has assumed the legal liability for the specific "i" point (inference point) of the agent's decision.

AGENT
→
REVIEWER
→
FOI (TERMINAL)

Operational Halt Protocol

If an FOI is unreachable within the defined Service Level Agreement (SLA), the AgDR protocol dictates a mandatory Terminal Halt. The system is designed to fail-safe: an agent operating without a reachable FOI is operating without authorization. In the v1.8 standard, "Unreachable FOI" is logged as a High-Severity Governance Breach.