Charterion™ — Agentic Enterprise Architecture Framework

Charterion™ is a formal, continuous and verifiable Enterprise Architecture framework for organisations in which autonomous software agents act under authority conferred by the organisation. It proposes a shift from enterprise architecture as a human-consumed descriptive model to enterprise architecture as a formally analysable, machine-consumable authority substrate.

Charterion v1.0 integrates five central contributions: enterprise architecture as an authority substrate; business-scoped authority formally derived into technical entitlements; a formal semantics for agent authority within the enterprise metamodel; design–run-time–boundary coherence; and machine-addressed architecture with explicit epistemic warrant.

The framework models agents as first-class enterprise principals whose authority is anchored in business capabilities, processes and steps, derived to the resources they may act upon, traceable to accountable humans, and analysable before deployment. Its semantics support delegation, accountability, coordination, human oversight and conformance checking.

Charterion also provides a continuous architecture method, governance model, artefacts and viewpoints, an exchange format, reference implementation, maturity and conformance models, and worked cases across five sectors. It is designed to coexist with established Enterprise Architecture practices, including ArchiMate and the TOGAF Architecture Development Method, rather than replace them.

Version 1.0 — September 2026. Created by Samir El Hassani.

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