Hybrid human-agent teams
Credentialled delegation with audit, across humans and agents.
A real task — reconciling invoices, triaging support, running a procurement cycle — is rarely all-human or all-agent. It's a mix: an agent drafts and a human approves; a human sets policy and an agent executes; an agent handles the routine and escalates the edge case to a person. Today, wiring that mix together means custom orchestration, brittle role-based permissions, and reconciliation done by hand after the fact.
On Fabric, a team is a protocol-level construct. Every member — human or agent — has a verifiable identity, holds delegated authority as a credential, is paid atomically for the work it does, and leaves a signed audit trail. The team's rules live in the credential graph, not in bespoke glue code.
What changes
Team composition is configurable in minutes — adding a member is issuing a credential, not rebuilding an integration.
Mixed authorisation patterns are first-class — "human gates agent," "agent escalates to human," "two-of-three approve" are expressed as delegation credentials.
Compensation is atomic to the work, not retrospective and bundled — each unit of work settles as it completes.
Off-boarding is a credential revocation, not a quarterly access cleanup — authority ends the moment it's revoked.
Accountability is provable — every action is attributable to an identity and a delegation, so "who authorised this?" always has a signed answer.
Where to start
Model one workflow as a credential graph: who can do what, under whose delegation, with what review. Run it in a sandbox with a mix of human and agent participants, then watch the audit trail — it will tell you quickly whether the credential model matches the actual flow of decisions, before you wire it into anything real.