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title: '**entitlement system**'
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  **entitlement system** — in this channel's material, a proposed mechanism for
  managing what AI agents are allowed to do on a user's behalf: Kevin Scott
  lists it, alongside **agent identities** and **permission requests** to both
  the delegating user and administrators, as part of the infrastructure the
  agentic web will need, built openly on top of MCP rather than as something
  proprietary to Microsoft. [^385ed583-4107-5c5a-b47a-33e1dde27a3b@639]
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# \*\*entitlement system\*\*

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Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**entitlement system** — in this channel's material, a proposed mechanism for managing what AI agents are allowed to do on a user's behalf: Kevin Scott lists it, alongside **agent identities** and **permission requests** to both the delegating user and administrators, as part of the infrastructure the agentic web will need, built openly on top of MCP rather than as something proprietary to Microsoft. [^385ed583-4107-5c5a-b47a-33e1dde27a3b@639]

<Section title="How the term appears in this material">## How the term appears in this material In this channel's material, **entitlement system** appears once, in Microsoft CTO **Kevin Scott**'s sketch of what agents still need for acting on a user's behalf. Discussing the infrastructure the **agentic web** requires, Scott lists it alongside **agent identities** and **permission requests** directed to both the delegating user and administrators — a bundle of mechanisms for deciding _who or what is allowed to do what_ when an agent takes action. <MomentLink seconds="639"/> [^385ed583-4107-5c5a-b47a-33e1dde27a3b@639] ### An open-community direction, not a shipped product The term arrives with explicit uncertainty. Scott presents entitlement systems as a **direction the community could build**, openly on top of **MCP** rather than as something proprietary to Microsoft — and even in his own telling it is still speculative. <MomentLink seconds="632"/> [^385ed583-4107-5c5a-b47a-33e1dde27a3b@639] ### Where it sits in the security picture The related video explores this same space from another angle: Alex Rattray of Stainless argues that limiting what an MCP server exposes is the wrong lever for security, because everything in the underlying API remains reachable under the hood — security must be enforced at the **API layer** with OAuth granular permissions and proper scopes. <MomentLink seconds="2454"/> [^913c216d-5ccb-51d9-8f42-8feb7c017d9d@2454] An entitlement system, as Scott sketches it, would complement that by giving the ecosystem a way to grant and revoke what agents may do on a user's behalf — a question that grows urgent as interaction shifts from **synchronous** prompting to **asynchronous delegation**, where you hand a task off and the agent acts without you in the loop. <MomentLink seconds="1551"/> [^eea0a522-b6b8-5472-bf62-08b0a42ab8a3@1551] </Section> <KeyPoints> - An **entitlement system** is a mechanism for governing what agents are permitted to do on a user's behalf — who may act, and what actions are allowed. - It appears only in Kevin Scott's forward-looking sketch, alongside **agent identities** and **permission requests** to users and administrators. <MomentLink seconds="639"/> - Scott frames it as something the community should build **openly on top of MCP**, not as a Microsoft-proprietary solution — and as still uncertain. - It complements API-layer security (OAuth scopes) rather than replacing it, and matters most for **asynchronous** agent delegation. </KeyPoints>