Agentic AI is moving from output generation to real system action. As autonomous and semi-autonomous agents invoke tools, call APIs, update records, retrieve and reuse context, trigger workflows, move data, and affect protected systems, the trust question shifts from output correctness to action acceptance: Should this exact autonomous action be accepted before impact? Identity, access control, workload authentication, runtime attestation, policy checks, encryption, and logs remain necessary. But they do not always establish that a specific action is authorized, scoped, fresh, not revoked, target-consistent, and verifier-ready at the acceptance boundary. This technical note introduces the Acceptance Plane™: an architectural function that determines whether a specific autonomous AI action should be accepted by a protected system before impact, based on current, scope-bound, verifier-ready evidence at the acceptance boundary. The release defines the concept, distinguishes protected execution from accepted action, and provides a public reference workflow for action-level trust in agentic AI infrastructure: identity and delegation signals, runtime evidence, policy state, target and scope checks, freshness and revocation verification, an ACCEPT / HOLD / REFUSE decision, and a verifier-ready acceptance receipt. The purpose of this release is to provide a public, citable architecture thesis for action-level trust in agentic AI infrastructure: decision before action, proof before impact. This record is not a formal standard, product specification, legal opinion, compliance certification, patent claim chart, implementation disclosure, commercial deployment artifact, or certification program.

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