# Authority Graph Figures
Authority Graph Overview
The authority graph models which identities and agents can invoke which tools, data, approvals, and consequential actions.
Graph showing users, agents, service identities, permissions, tools, approval gates, data, and external effects.
Unsafe Authority Composition
Individually reasonable permissions can combine into a dangerous end-to-end authority path.
Graph showing separate read, plan, tool, and approval permissions combining into one consequential authority path.
Authority to Control Chokepoint
A small change to permission, approval, or action scope can break several unsafe authority paths.
Several authority paths converging on overbroad permission, followed by a constrained policy and approval gate that blocks or reduces the paths.