Human, service & system principals
Represent people, integrations and internal system actors explicitly rather than sharing credentials.
XTND is built around scoped identity, explicit context, auditable privileged access and configurable deployment choices. This page explains the architecture and the commitments that should be verified per deployment.
XTND distinguishes principal identity from active context. Memberships, roles, direct grants and scope combine into effective access for the current business or client environment.
Represent people, integrations and internal system actors explicitly rather than sharing credentials.
Access follows organization, workspace and delegated relationships instead of a single global admin flag.
Move between authorized contexts without pretending to be another user.
XTND supports shared, isolated and dedicated deployment patterns through its infrastructure layer. Encryption, data residency, backups, retention, recovery objectives and SLA commitments are specified for the selected deployment.
Match shared, isolated or dedicated infrastructure to the business and compliance requirement.
Keep tenant and workspace boundaries explicit in application and data access paths.
Backups, DR and recovery objectives belong in the operating contract, not only in application code.
Privileged support and impersonation paths are explicit and auditable. Actions remain tied to the real acting principal, active context and granted scope.
Budgets, provider routing, tool scopes, usage logs, human approvals and fallback policies help keep AI aligned with the risk of the workflow.
Control consumption at tenant, user, module or capability level where supported.
Limit which actions and external systems an AI workflow can access.
Keep people in the loop for financial, legal, operational or otherwise consequential decisions.
For production deployments, the applicable security and operations specification defines the controls that apply to that environment, including backup, retention, recovery, data residency and support commitments.