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Trusted Delegation and Pre-execution Security Enforcement for AI Agents (Unpaid)
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Trusted Delegation and Pre-execution Security Enforcement for AI Agents (Unpaid)
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About the Organization
<p>Design and implement a secure, auditable platform that enforces pre-execution authority for delegated actions initiated by humans, AI agents, and services. The platform will provide a single gateway for policy-driven request routing, a secret vault for API keys and credentials, and a delegation graph model to represent and evaluate long/deep delegation chains with real-time revocation and immutable proofs recorded to a ledger. Initial work will implement core components (gateway, policy evaluator, delegation graph, secret vault integration, immutable audit records) and end-to-end flows for common delegation scenarios. Later work will extend policy negotiation between agents, security reasoning modules, and audit reporting that derives intent and policy-improvement recommendations. The goal is a practical mentorship project that teaches secure authority delegation, DLT-backed auditability, and interoperable identity and credential patterns.</p><h3><br></h3><h3>Learning Objectives</h3><ul><li>Understand and implement delegation models and graph-based authority evaluation.</li><li>Build a policy-driven gateway that enforces pre-execution checks and real-time revocation.</li><li>Integrate secure secret storage and key management for service/API credentials.</li><li>Record tamper-evident audit trails on an immutable ledger and derive actionable audit reports.</li><li>Apply decentralized identity / verifiable-credential concepts to authorize principals (human, agent, service).</li></ul><h3><br></h3><h3>Expected Outcome and Deliverables</h3><ul><li>Working prototype of a single gateway enforcing policy-checked executions with revocation support.</li><li>Delegation Graph module with algorithms for evaluation and path resolution.</li><li>Secret Vault integration (API for storing/retrieving encrypted keys) and sample connectors.</li><li>Immutable audit-log storage adapter (ledger integration) and a basic audit-report generator.</li><li>Documentation: architecture diagram, developer guide, onboarding tasks, and end-to-end test scenarios.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Learn More at <a href="https://github.com/LF-Decentralized-Trust-Mentorships/mentorship-program/issues/78" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/LF-Decentralized-Trust-Mentorships/mentorship-program/issues/78</a></p>
Primary Technologies & Languages
programming experience in python and node with backend and api development.familiarity with ai/agent frameworks and systems where ai interacts with external tools or services.understanding of distributed systems, gateways, and microservice architectures.experience with docker and familiarity with nginx or similar tools for routing and load balancing.basic knowledge of decentralized identity, verifiable credentials, and security/cryptographic concepts.curiosity and interest in ai, security, and decentralized trust systems are strongly encouraged.pythonnode.jsdocker
Technical Topics & Focus Areas
programming experience in python and node with backend and api development.familiarity with ai/agent frameworks and systems where ai interacts with external tools or services.understanding of distributed systems, gateways, and microservice architectures.experience with docker and familiarity with nginx or similar tools for routing and load balancing.basic knowledge of decentralized identity, verifiable credentials, and security/cryptographic concepts.curiosity and interest in ai, security, and decentralized trust systems are strongly encouraged.pythonnode.jsdocker
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Trusted Delegation and Pre-execution Security Enforcement for AI Agents (Unpaid) Mentorship Project
Intermediate<p>Design and implement a secure, auditable platform that enforces pre-execution authority for delegated actions initiated by humans, AI agents, and services. The platform will provide a single gateway for policy-driven request routing, a secret vault for API keys and credentials, and a delegation graph model to represent and evaluate long/deep delegation chains with real-time revocation and immutable proofs recorded to a ledger. Initial work will implement core components (gateway, policy evaluator, delegation graph, secret vault integration, immutable audit records) and end-to-end flows for common delegation scenarios. Later work will extend policy negotiation between agents, security reasoning modules, and audit reporting that derives intent and policy-improvement recommendations. The goal is a practical mentorship project that teaches secure authority delegation, DLT-backed auditability, and interoperable identity and credential patterns.</p><h3><br></h3><h3>Learning Objectives</h3><ul><li>Understand and implement delegation models and graph-based authority evaluation.</li><li>Build a policy-driven gateway that enforces pre-execution checks and real-time revocation.</li><li>Integrate secure secret storage and key management for service/API credentials.</li><li>Record tamper-evident audit trails on an immutable ledger and derive actionable audit reports.</li><li>Apply decentralized identity / verifiable-credential concepts to authorize principals (human, agent, service).</li></ul><h3><br></h3><h3>Expected Outcome and Deliverables</h3><ul><li>Working prototype of a single gateway enforcing policy-checked executions with revocation support.</li><li>Delegation Graph module with algorithms for evaluation and path resolution.</li><li>Secret Vault integration (API for storing/retrieving encrypted keys) and sample connectors.</li><li>Immutable audit-log storage adapter (ledger integration) and a basic audit-report generator.</li><li>Documentation: architecture diagram, developer guide, onboarding tasks, and end-to-end test scenarios.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Learn More at <a href="https://github.com/LF-Decentralized-Trust-Mentorships/mentorship-program/issues/78" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/LF-Decentralized-Trust-Mentorships/mentorship-program/issues/78</a></p>