Deterministic and local-first
Tools that give the same answer twice, and keep your data where it is.
The tooling around the layer is built to be predictable and private: rules rather than models where a verdict would matter, and your configuration kept on your own machine.
OBSERVED · UNMANAGED · ENFORCED
Three different things. The layer observes and publishes; your policy enforces.
- OBSERVED
- A state the layer has seen and published on a record — with its time and its basis. A fact about a record, readable by anyone.
- UNMANAGED
- An MCP server in use — found, say, by local-first inspection of a configuration — that no accountable operator has bound to an identity and no policy of yours covers. A gap to close, not a finding against the server.
- ENFORCED
- An allow or deny decision made in a runtime: your gateway, your client policy, your pipeline. ECZ-ID never claims enforcement it does not perform.
- Identity is not approval.
- DECLARED is not VERIFIED.
- OBSERVED is not ENFORCED.
- UNMANAGED is not a finding.