Trust Incident
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A trust incident is a governance event significant enough to affect an agent's standing, not just its Trust Score. It's the unit Adapt uses to build violation patterns and recovery plans, and the unit the Identity Bridge emits externally when it's connected.
What Qualifies
| Event | Why it qualifies |
|---|---|
| HALT decision | The entire agent session was terminated |
| Critical-severity behavioral violation | A behavioral rule fired at critical severity, not minor or major |
| Trust-tier demotion | The agent's Trust Tier dropped a level |
| Drift crossing into CRITICAL | A goal-alignment drift score crossing a critical threshold (e.g., entering the CRITICAL band) commits an incident by itself; no HALT or tier change has to happen alongside it |
Ordinary ALLOW, CONSTRAIN, or single BLOCK decisions are not trust incidents on their own; a trust incident marks a governance outcome serious enough to change how the agent is treated going forward, not routine enforcement.
Where It Shows Up
| Surface | Role |
|---|---|
| Monitor | Recent Issues and drift events surface the underlying session; the session becomes a trust incident once it meets one of the criteria above |
| Adapt → Insights | Violation Patterns and the Agent Trust Timeline are built from trust incidents |
| Identity Bridge | When connected, every trust incident is emitted as a CAEP signal to your identity provider; this is the only thing the Identity Bridge acts on |
Related
- Governance Decisions: The verdicts a trust incident is built from
- Trust Tiers: How a trust incident can move an agent between tiers
- Adapt: Where trust incidents become patterns and recovery plans