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TieredAccess

Cost-distance indexing

Definition

Mechanism

Central 'massive' agents (high authority) create a gravity well. The cost to interact with an agent increases the closer you get to the center. This naturally filters low-value queries to the periphery and reserves core attention for high-value interactions. Utilizes BearerToken.

Preconditions

Agent has valid Identity

Postconditions

Access log updated

Invariants

Cost Monotonicity: Cost(Distance D-1) > Cost(Distance D) - closer to center means higher cost
Metric Definition: Distance must be computed via agreed metric (hops, latency, trust score)

Risks

Failure modes

Metric Divergence
Agents disagree on distance calculation, causing payment rejection.
Center becomes economically inaccessible to low-resource agents.

Relationships

Builds on

Composes with

BearerToken

Possession-based authorization independent of token representation

References

Mind

Agent

Autonomous Goal-Directed Entity

Infrastructure

Identity

Unique agent context (The Who)

Used by

References

PermissionEscalate

Requesting elevated privileges for sensitive operations

Reference

Parameters

cost_function Enum, {Linear, Exponential, Step}: How cost scales with proximity
distance_metric Enum, {Hops, Latency, TrustScore}: How to measure distance

Identity

Ref

TieredAccess#4887

Sema ID

sema:TieredAccess#mh:SHA-256:48871e4baf0a2f4a54892bf6c25765ca648696f391f569b02afaefb8b4af9a5b

Ring

Tier

Updated

2026-11-11

Supersedes

sema:TieredAccess#mh:SHA-256:2a28f25bd2e1e991a4c9250d85a478f2b16bf57a9191dbb61c944a29b14559ff
sema:TieredAccess#mh:SHA-256:f3f651c9ef144f5a78f1ba4539ff8af7d1b70c625ef9cc119cf31e8f7e5340dd
sema:TieredAccess#mh:SHA-256:805cff9b1016fb2e59af973679a456842d0d764359ffa1c0bc708e7633218334
sema:TieredAccess#mh:SHA-256:c826df24049123ff8ab6e64130fd19b23bc56afb1efd386abe61eb28ba094606

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