Callable by Whom? Actor–Route Alignment in Public-Sector Agent Evaluation

An agent evaluation attributes institutional capability whenever its result is taken to show what a particular public body or citizen can accomplish. Such an attribution depends on how the actor’s authority relates to the tools supplied by the evaluator. I propose actor–route alignment as a six-field reporting requirement and apply it to 43 brokered and nine external Brazilian API pages. The resulting records identify conditions on different actors, operations and approval layers that a page-level permission label would collapse; all 52 situated attributions remain unresolved in the collected evidence. The municipal case makes the consequence concrete: only 52 of 5,569 administrations meet Conecta’s currently published capital-or-population condition, although they contain 30.4% of Brazil’s population. A bounded UK comparison finds 27 of 35 sampled catalogue descriptions silent about access conditions, while an Indian specification example conflicts with its accompanying prose. These findings support treating the authority supplied by an evaluation as part of the capability claim, with explicit counterfactual grants where institutional correspondence has not been established.