# GAMMA-Ray: how much an AI agent does on its own, and how well that is governed

> GAMMA-Ray v0.0.2 (draft). A draft standard that rates an AI agent on two things, its freedom and its governance, from evidence, by joining the public maturity standards into one short list of questions.
> Page: https://gamma-ray.sgit.ai/ · Source: content/index.md

A draft standard · Graph-Analyzed Multi-framework Maturity Assessment with Risk-Adjusted Yield

# The more an agent is governed, the further it can be trusted to go.

GAMMA-Ray rates one AI agent on two things: how much it does on its own, and how well that is controlled. It asks 21 questions. Each answer needs evidence, and each answer counts towards several published standards at once.

8 instruments read at source 279 provisions, one statement each 69 indicators, one observable fact each 21 questions

## Two levels, one result

**Freedom** is what the agent does on its own, from 1 (it answers) to 5 (agents working with agents). **Governance** is how it is controlled, from 0 (nothing stated) to 4 (proven). An agent is **held** at the highest freedom level that its governance supports. A small agent that is well governed is mature. A powerful one that nobody can show to be controlled is not, yet.

*Figure. The quadrant of freedom against governance; the levels are in the text.*

The questions measure what is said about an agent. What its permissions actually let it do, its **grant**, is measured separately, with [RiskMandate](https://riskmandate.ai/)'s lens: mandate, grant, and the delta between them. [How the two halves meet](lens/index.md).

## One short list, many standards

Maturity standards for agents ask many of the same things in different words. We cut 8 instruments into 279 provisions, found the observable fact behind each, and grouped those facts into questions. 209 of the 279 provisions (75%) are reached by 21 questions. The rest are listed as outliers: what only one instrument asks.

*Figure. The compression in four bars; the numbers are in the text.*

- [The standard](standard/index.md): the levels, the tiers and the rules.
- [The questions](questions/index.md): all 21, with every citation.
- [The mashup](mashup/index.md): the graph, and what would not compress.
- [Coverage](coverage/index.md): how much of each instrument can be read from outside.
- [The lens](lens/index.md): mandate, grant and delta, and how the grant changes a level.
- [Scans](scans/index.md): our own agents, and three products as examples.

## Where this is

A draft, v0.0.2. The mapping between instruments is a first pass by one reader and has not been checked by a second. It rates our own agents, and shows three widely used products as examples from their vendors' documentation. [What exists and what does not](about/reality.md).