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NHIM (Non-Human Identity Management)

NHIM is Blekline's category for governing autonomous agents at the execution boundary — who the agent is, what tools may run, and whether session lineage permits action. It complements human IAM with stateful runtime enforcement.

NHIM extends identity governance to autonomous software agents with stateful runtime enforcement — not just authentication and static entitlements.

Components

Component	Status
Open-core MCP/SDK	Shipped
Ingress sidecar	Shipped
Trust Vault	Shipped v1
Lineage Firewall	Shipped v1
SPIFFE workload binding	Shipped v1 (allowlist + entry bind)

Try the Runtime Enforcement Simulator or read the NHIM overview.

Related terms

Non-Human Identity (NHI)
Trust Vault
Lineage Firewall

Used in

Runtime enforcement
NHIM overview
Egress governance
AI Enablement Stack
Quick Start
Kubernetes deployment
Trust Vault sidecar
Lineage enforcement
NHIM verification
Trust Boundaries
Threat Model
Runtime Simulator
Procurement Pack

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