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Welcome to the documentation hub for Delegatic — the governance and orchestration layer for multi-agent AI systems. Delegatic defines who can do what, enforces policy boundaries…

Delegatic Documentation

Structure first. Then delegate.

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Welcome to the documentation hub for Delegatic — the governance and orchestration layer for multi-agent AI systems. Delegatic defines who can do what, enforces policy boundaries, manages organizational hierarchy, and provides immutable audit trails for every decision.

Delegatic does not execute tasks, host agents, or run workflows — it defines the structure within which all other [&] products operate.

Core Concepts

Containment Trees

Organizations nest in a strict tree. No cycles. No DAGs. Structure IS the authorization model. Each org is a GenServer process supervised by its parent.

Monotonic Policy Inheritance

Children can tighten but never widen parent restrictions:

  • Booleans → AND (child can only disable)

  • Numerics → MIN (child can only lower limits)

  • Allow-lists → INTERSECTION (child can only narrow)

  • Deny-lists → UNION (child can only add)

Privilege escalation is impossible by design.

Append-Only Audit

Every mutation is logged immutably with actor, timestamp, and provenance. Audit events are processed through a Broadway pipeline for guaranteed delivery.

Goal-Aware Governance

Delegatic stores references to Graphonomous GoalGraph goal_ids so that task requests, workflow runs, and sensitive mutations can be authorized and audited in the context of an explicit goal.

Documentation Map

Homepages

Root Docs

Delegatic Docs

Architecture at a Glance

ComponentRoleOTP Pattern
OrgNodeOne org. Holds local policy, caches effective policy.GenServer
PolicyEngineComputes effective policies, enforces monotonic inheritance.GenServer + ETS
AuditWriterBatched, append-only audit event writes.Broadway pipeline
OrgTreeCacheIn-memory tree for cycle detection and path lookups.GenServer + ETS
DashboardReal-time org tree, policy editor, audit log viewer.Phoenix LiveView

Performance Targets

MetricTarget
Effective policy lookup (ETS hot)< 5us p99
Effective policy computation (cold)< 20ms p99
Cycle detection (depth-50 tree)< 1ms
Audit write throughput (Broadway)> 10K events/sec

Tech Stack

LayerTechnology
LanguageElixir 1.17+
FrameworkPhoenix 1.8+ (LiveView for dashboard)
DatabasePostgreSQL 16+ via Ecto
Hot CacheETS (effective policies, org tree, memberships)
Audit PipelineBroadway (batched inserts, back-pressure)
Background JobsOban (webhooks, compliance exports)
Telemetry:telemetry + Prometheus

Ecosystem Role

Delegatic is the governance layer of the [&] stack:

ProductRelationship
AgentelicTelespace attachments — agents registered under orgs
AgenTroMaticPolicy check API — deliberations respect governance
WebHost.SystemsDeployment gates — deploy requires policy approval
FleetPromptInstall authorization — marketplace installs need org permission
GraphonomousGoal references — actions scoped to durable intent

Project Links

[&] Ampersand Box Design — delegatic.com

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