pragmatic-use-delegation SKILL.md skillA
pragmatic-use-delegation from pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design/pragmatic-use-delegation@git:20261004.7a4079aPins git:20261004.7a4079a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design
- Path
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- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261004.7a4079a, committed Oct 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 2, 2026
- Size
- 11,054 bytes
- Repository stars
- 15
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Use when a session acts for someone else (an agent for its user, support for a customer, a job for a row's owner) or a permission check differs under impersonation; ICurrentUser.Delegation, delegation policies, RFC 8693.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Pragmatic Use Delegation
**Covers:** Act on behalf of another identity with Pragmatic.Authorization: ICurrentUser.Delegation, the Intersection/SubjectOnly/GrantScoped policies, IActorAuthorityResolver, RFC 8693 claims.
A delegated session is one where **someone acts on behalf of someone else**. The subject is who the
work is *for*; the actor is who is *doing* it. Both are real, both belong in the audit trail, and the
authority is neither one's alone.
## When to use
- An agent runtime executes work started by a user.
- Support or an administrator reproduces what a customer sees.
- A background job acts for the owner of a row instead of running with full permissions.
- A colleague covers for someone who is away.
**Not** for an autonomous process that works for itself. That is a service principal with its own
permissions, which `Pragmatic.Identity` already expresses; inventing a subject to satisfy this API
makes the audit trail lie.
## The shape
```csharp
if (currentUser.Delegation is { } d)
logger.ActedOnBehalf(currentUser.Id, d.ActorId, d.Purpose);
```
`IDelegationContext`: `SubjectId`, `ActorId`, `ActorKind` (`User|Service|Agent`), `Policy`, `Purpose`,
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How to install
mdr add pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design/pragmatic-use-delegation@sha256:0d256cae0f9ac105The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.7a4079a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design · 15 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3psy2axvvng3egj6 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design/pragmatic-use-delegation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0d256cae0f9ac105a19c4fecf1f143bb4a4a21cc0f2c28ae5c6259a4fe27948e
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