Glossary / NHI Governance

Definition

What is NHI Governance?

Non-human identity governance

NHI governance is the discipline of inventorying and controlling non-human identities — AI agents, service accounts, and automated workloads. It maps every machine identity to a human principal, tracks governance coverage, and binds each agent to a Guardian so its actions are policed and tied back to a verified actor.

As AI agents proliferate, the non-human identity surface explodes. NHI governance answers two questions: what non-human entities exist, and is each one actually governed — or is it acting outside coverage?

Trinitite binds each NHI to a Guardian with a governance mode (input, output, or bidirectional) and a priority order, falling back to a platform-default Guardian so traffic is never silently ungoverned. Every action ties back to both the agent and the human who authorized the workflow.