Connected System and Authority Topology

This topology map shows that security-relevant behavior does not arise from any single component in isolation, but from the relationships between identities, agents, tools, data, and approval gates. A user delegates intent to an agent operating under a service identity, which may retrieve from a corpus containing both ordinary context and sensitive data. That data can influence tool selection and execution, including consequence-bearing tools capable of producing external actions. Approval gates mediate these effects by constraining when an agent may move from inference to irreversible action. The map makes explicit where authority is granted, where trust is assumed, and where sensitive context can amplify risk, providing a structural view of how decisions become effects.