CRUSHIA AUTHORITY
CRUSHIA — HIOP Authority Engine. Determines what an agent, system, person, service, or asset is authorized to cause. Compass (former name), superseded by CRUSHIA.
HIOP engines
Narwhal → Meerkat → CRUSHIA → Rain → Fossil. Functional sequence: Identity → Verification → Authority → Execution → Evidence.
Effect Authority
The right to cause a specific action on a specific resource, delegated and recorded.
Governed Execution
Identity, authority, policy, controlled action, evidence, and memory — applied before consequential effects.
Evidence Record
A persisted record of whether an action was permitted and what occurred, in a form that can be replayed.
If Authority Cannot Be Proven
The action does not proceed.
Evaluation Environment
A scoped Hood environment used to evaluate capability.
Hood Passport
A governed identity and lifecycle record for assets, models, devices and other real-world or digital objects.
Authentication vs Authority
Login identifies the requester. It does not grant unlimited effects.
Physical Effect
When AI causes a machine to act, authorization of the effect matters, not only model accuracy.
Public educational material.