Consent Grant
A permission issued by a principal to a named third party to access specified data, for a specified purpose, for a specified duration, revocable at any time by the principal and enforced at the interface.
Why it matters
The most useful precedent in agentic governance, and almost nobody in the field cites it. Scoped, time-bounded, revocable, granted to a named party and enforced at the API — open banking has been running bounded delegated authority at national scale for years while agent governance treats the problem as unprecedented. It is not unprecedented. It is solved for data access, and the pattern transfers to action with one change: the object of the grant.
What it is not
These are routinely confused with Consent Grant. The distinctions are not pedantic — each one has consequences for how a system is governed.
Consent governs what a party may SEE. An authority grant governs what it may COMMIT. Everything else about the two structures is close enough to borrow from.
Consent is specific, scoped and revocable per relationship. Terms of service are blanket and non-negotiable.
Relationships
Typed edges into the rest of the ontology. These are what make the canon traversable rather than merely readable.
| Verb | Target | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
relatedTo | Authority Grant | An association too weak or too general for a stronger verb. |
addresses | Authority | The subject speaks to the object as a question or concern. |
dependsOn | FDX API | The subject cannot function correctly without the object. |
constrains | Agent Identity | The subject bounds what the object may do. |
Record
| Canonical identifier | QIS-TERM-00024 |
| Status | Canonical industry term |
| Adoption | Widely used |
| Domain · Layer | Authority · Governance |
| Origin | Open banking. Formalized in the FDX API standard in North America and in equivalent open banking regimes elsewhere. |
| Semantic aliases | None recorded. |
| First published | 2026-08-02 |
| Last reviewed | 2026-08-02 · 180-day cycle |
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