Non-human identity: the identity of an agent, service account or machine actor. Every NHI gets a registry entry, an owner and a scope before it is allowed to act.
- Developed in
- ch. 05, Pattern: Agent Identity & Scoped Credentials
ch. 23, Identity and short-lived credentials - Chapters
- ch. 04, The Stack · ch. 05, Patterns · ch. 23, AI Agents
- Contrast with
- Workload identity
- Source
- Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source
Where it is used
3 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.
- 06 · The Role Skills, by workflow 1 mention
- 10 · Reading List Regulation and standards 1 mention
- 15 · Deployment Deactivation, degradation, localisation and retirement 1 mention
Sources
No external source: the term is coined or used in a specific sense by this Body of Knowledge, and the section linked under "Developed in" is its source.
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