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Fix Identity First
Or Why the SAVE Act Won't Work
 • Phil Windley
Cross-Domain Delegation in a Society of Agents
Summary: Cross-domain delegation requires more than transferring a credential.
 • Phil Windley
Delegation as Data: Applying Cedar Policies to OpenClaw Subagents
In earlier posts, I discussed demos I’ve built showing how Cedar can enforce authorization decisions for an OpenClaw agent.
 • Phil Windley
Childproofing the Control Plane: Using Cedar to Build Frontal Lobes for Agentic Systems
Summary: Connecting an agent like OpenClaw to Home Assistant can make home automation more adaptive and intelligent, but it also introduces real risks…
 • Phil Windley
Beyond Denial: Using Policy Constraints to Guide OpenClaw Planning
Summary: OpenClaw agents plan, adapt, and act over time, so authorization that functions merely as a reactive gate isn’t the best architecture.
 • Phil Windley
A Policy-Aware Agent Loop with Cedar and OpenClaw
Summary: This article demonstrates how to move authorization inside the agent loop by inserting a Cedar-backed policy decision point into OpenClaw, so…
 • Phil Windley
SEDI and Client-Side Identity
Summary Client-side certificates were technically sound in the 1990s, but they failed because individuals weren’t willing to pay for identity proofing.
 • Phil Windley
Phil Windley's Technometria
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