Glossary

Term	Meaning
ACT	Agent Capability Token: signed CBOR capability envelope
AEGIS	Verification, policy, key, authentication, delegation and wallet library family
Anchor	Backend evidence accepted under the verifier's configured authority policy
Arsenal	Credential, capability, policy, storage and broker library family
Authority	Permission established under the required trusted verification contract
Capability	Bounded grant of an action/scope to a subject and audience
Conformance	Evidence of behavior against a particular protocol/version and vector set
DID	Decentralized identifier naming an entity
ENR	Entity-root kind; governance is separately verified
HMR	Human-root kind; the label alone does not prove personhood
MHR	Multi-human-root kind; real threshold control requires an actual ceremony
IdentityProvider	TypeScript interface for creation, resolution, challenge signing and key lookup
JCS	JSON Canonicalization Scheme used where the protocol signs canonical JSON
Lineage	Signed identity relationships evaluated by local and authority verifiers
Nonce	Challenge correlation/freshness value governed by its store and protocol
OAS	Open Agent Specification and its identity primitives
Scope	Parsed `service:resource:action` permission expression
Session	Implementation-specific bounded authenticated state
Source snapshot	Checked manifests and declaration hashes, not proof of package publication
Trust policy	Verifier-owned selection of accepted keys, roots, backends and conditions

See core concepts for how these contracts fit together.