{
  "name": "Skipr Glossary",
  "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary",
  "publisher": "Skipr",
  "positioning": "The Sovereign Runtime Control Plane for Governed Execution",
  "citation_guidance": "These definitions are canonical and may be quoted verbatim with attribution to Skipr (https://skipr.network/glossary).",
  "terms": [
    {
      "id": "sovereign-runtime",
      "name": "Sovereign Runtime",
      "definition": "The live execution path of an organization's digital estate, operated under that organization's own authority — its infrastructure, its identity, its policies, its keys, and its evidence.",
      "in_skipr": "Skipr's runtime is the path every action travels: Intent → Identity → Context → Policy → Decision → Execution → Evidence. It runs inside the customer's perimeter, so no vendor sits between the organization and its own decisions.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#sovereign-runtime",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "Platform",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/platform"
        },
        {
          "label": "Deployment",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/deployment"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "runtime-governance",
      "name": "Runtime Governance",
      "definition": "Governance applied in the path of an action while it is happening, rather than documented beforehand or reviewed afterwards.",
      "in_skipr": "Skipr evaluates identity, context and policy per call and returns a decision before execution. Documentation and dashboards describe intent; runtime governance decides outcomes.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#runtime-governance",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "Runtime governance for AI agents",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/learn/runtime-governance-ai-agents"
        },
        {
          "label": "AI governance vs runtime governance",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/compare/ai-governance-vs-runtime-governance"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "governed-execution",
      "name": "Governed Execution",
      "definition": "An action that only proceeds inside the scope its policy allowed, and that leaves verifiable proof of what was decided and why.",
      "in_skipr": "Governed execution is Skipr's outcome. Authorization is bound to the action itself, so the executed action cannot exceed the grant, and signed evidence is produced as a by-product rather than reconstructed later.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#governed-execution",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "Governed execution",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/learn/governed-execution"
        },
        {
          "label": "Concepts",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/concepts#governed-execution"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-agent-governance",
      "name": "AI Agent Governance",
      "definition": "The controls that determine which tools, data, systems and other agents an autonomous AI agent may act against, and under what conditions.",
      "in_skipr": "AgentConnect gives every agent, tool call and agent-to-agent exchange a governed identity and a governed path, authorized per invocation instead of per deployment.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#ai-agent-governance",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "AgentConnect",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/products/agentconnect"
        },
        {
          "label": "Runtime governance for AI agents",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/learn/runtime-governance-ai-agents"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sovereign-ai",
      "name": "Sovereign AI",
      "definition": "AI operated under the laws, policies and control of the organization or jurisdiction using it, rather than under the terms of the vendor supplying it.",
      "in_skipr": "Skipr treats sovereignty as a property of control and evidence, not of hosting location. Sovereign compute places hardware in-country; sovereign control decides what is permitted to run on it.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#sovereign-ai",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "Sovereign AI vs sovereign cloud",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/learn/sovereign-ai-vs-sovereign-cloud"
        },
        {
          "label": "Concepts",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/concepts#digital-sovereignty"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sovereign-control-plane",
      "name": "Sovereign Control Plane",
      "definition": "A vendor-neutral layer that decides, enforces and proves what people, AI agents, applications and machines are permitted to do, running inside infrastructure the organization owns.",
      "in_skipr": "The Skipr Sovereign Runtime Control Plane is fed by four native capabilities — SecureConnect, AgentConnect, IntelConnect and DataConnect — and enforces one lifecycle across all of them.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#sovereign-control-plane",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "The sovereign runtime control plane",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/learn/sovereign-runtime-control-plane"
        },
        {
          "label": "Platform",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/platform"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "policy-enforcement",
      "name": "Policy Enforcement",
      "definition": "The point at which a written rule becomes an operational constraint that an action cannot bypass.",
      "in_skipr": "Policy is evaluated in the Policy stage of the runtime lifecycle — scope, residency, time-to-live and conditions — and the resulting decision gates execution. A policy that cannot block an action is documentation, not enforcement.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#policy-enforcement",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "Platform",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/platform"
        },
        {
          "label": "Trust",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/trust"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "authorization",
      "name": "Authorization",
      "definition": "The determination of whether a verified principal may perform a specific action, on a specific resource, in a specific context, right now.",
      "in_skipr": "Skipr authorizes per action rather than per session. The grant carries the scope, so the Execution stage cannot widen what the Decision stage allowed.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#authorization",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "SecureConnect",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/products/secureconnect"
        },
        {
          "label": "FAQ",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/faq"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "evidence",
      "name": "Evidence",
      "definition": "A verifiable record of what was requested, who requested it, what policy applied, what was decided, and what actually executed.",
      "in_skipr": "Evidence is the seventh lifecycle stage and is produced as a by-product of enforcement — signed, attested and jurisdiction-tagged — rather than assembled afterwards from logs.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#evidence",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "Trust",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/trust"
        },
        {
          "label": "Governed execution",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/learn/governed-execution"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "data-sovereignty",
      "name": "Data Sovereignty",
      "definition": "The requirement that data remains subject to the laws and controls of a defined jurisdiction, including where it resides and who may reach it.",
      "in_skipr": "DataConnect governs how data is discovered, accessed, shared and consumed, applying residency and policy at query time and recording lineage as part of the evidence trail.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#data-sovereignty",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "DataConnect",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/products/dataconnect"
        },
        {
          "label": "Deployment",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/deployment"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "agent-identity",
      "name": "Agent Identity",
      "definition": "A cryptographic identity issued to an autonomous AI agent so its actions can be attributed, scoped and revoked independently of the person or system that launched it.",
      "in_skipr": "Skipr treats agents as first-class principals. An agent's identity carries its own scope and lifetime, so revoking it stops the agent without disturbing the human operator.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#agent-identity",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "AI agent identity",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/learn/ai-agent-identity"
        },
        {
          "label": "AgentConnect",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/products/agentconnect"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "machine-identity",
      "name": "Machine Identity",
      "definition": "A verifiable identity for a workload, service or device, used to authenticate and authorize it without shared secrets or long-lived credentials.",
      "in_skipr": "SecureConnect issues and continuously verifies identity for devices, workloads and applications on the same runtime path used for people and agents.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#machine-identity",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "SecureConnect",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/products/secureconnect"
        },
        {
          "label": "Platform",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/platform"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "zero-standing-access",
      "name": "Zero Standing Access",
      "definition": "A model in which no principal holds persistent privilege; access is granted for a specific action and expires when that action completes.",
      "in_skipr": "Zero standing privilege is the default posture across SecureConnect and AgentConnect. Rights are issued at decision time with an explicit scope and time-to-live.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#zero-standing-access",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "Skipr and PAM",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/compare/skipr-vs-pam"
        },
        {
          "label": "SecureConnect",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/products/secureconnect"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sovereignty-as-a-service",
      "name": "Sovereignty-as-a-Service",
      "definition": "An operating model in which a trusted national or regional provider offers sovereign infrastructure and governance to other organizations as a managed service.",
      "in_skipr": "Telecom operators already hold the jurisdictional footprint, regulatory standing and infrastructure to run a sovereign runtime control plane on behalf of their national market.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#sovereignty-as-a-service",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "Telecom sovereignty-as-a-service",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/learn/telecom-sovereignty-as-a-service"
        },
        {
          "label": "Deployment",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/deployment"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "deterministic-intelligence",
      "name": "Deterministic Intelligence",
      "definition": "The pairing of probabilistic reasoning with deterministic enforcement, so that a model may propose an action but a rule decides whether it executes.",
      "in_skipr": "IntelConnect reasons about context and produces understanding; it does not execute. The Decision and Execution stages remain deterministic and policy-bound.",
      "url": "https://skipr.network/glossary#deterministic-intelligence",
      "related": [
        {
          "label": "IntelConnect",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/products/intelconnect"
        },
        {
          "label": "Concepts",
          "url": "https://skipr.network/concepts#autonomous-trust"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}