Shariah-compliant finance is mandate-scoped by definition. Agents move at machine speed. The mandate must too.
Islamic finance already runs on the discipline every AI-governance framework is still reaching for: a scoped mandate (what may be held, what is screened out), a named supervisory authority (the Shariah supervisory board), and accountability for every binding act. Agentic Islamic Finance carries that discipline to AI agents — the Shariah mandate as a machine-readable scope the agent cannot widen by inference, board sign-off as named-human finality, and a sealed Evidence Pack™ the board and the auditor can replay.
The mandate is the scope. The board is the finality.
When AI agents screen instruments, structure murabaha or ijara workflows, and rebalance within Shariah screens, two things must never blur: what the mandate permits, and who may make an act final.
Shariah mandate as machine-readable scope
Permitted instrument classes, screening rules and structure constraints are recorded as the mandate envelope. An agent action outside the envelope is refused at decision time and routed to the named mandate owner — the agent cannot reason itself into a wider mandate.
Board sign-off as named finality
Acts the institution reserves for its Shariah supervisory board — approving a structure, certifying a product, ruling on a screen — stay advisory in the agent's hands until a named, currently-authorised principal records finality. Accountability is personal and named; it never transfers to the AI.
Evidence the board can replay
Every governed action seals its chain — mandate, authority grant, verdict, trace — signed and replay-verifiable from public keys alone. The board, the auditor and the standard-setter can re-verify what bound and under whose authority, months later, offline.
The agent actions this governs
Every consequential agent action in a Shariah-compliant workflow is admitted at the action boundary — inside the mandate, under recorded authority, with evidence on the file.
Honest scope
KYE Protocol™ does not issue Shariah opinions, certify compliance with Shariah standards, or replace the Shariah supervisory board — rulings remain the board's, and conformity with the standards your institution follows (AAOIFI- and IFSB-class frameworks among them) remains your compliance function's. What KYE™ does is mechanical: it makes the mandate the board approved enforceable at machine speed, keeps reserved acts behind named finality, and makes every binding act replay-provable. Authority finality, not the fatwa.