I-D Action: draft-yossif-agent-mandate-problem-00.txt

Internet-Draft draft-yossif-agent-mandate-problem-00.txt is now available.

   Title:   Problem Statement: Verifiable Human Mandates for Autonomous Agent Actions
   Author:  Mohamad Khalil Yossif
   Name:    draft-yossif-agent-mandate-problem-00.txt
   Pages:   10
   Dates:   2026-07-22

Abstract:

   An autonomous software agent commonly acts under authority a human
   granted at an earlier moment: the human expresses and authorizes an
   intent at one time, and the agent executes one or more concrete
   actions at a later time.  The credentials and session state the agent
   carries at execution time establish that some agent is authorized to
   act, but they do not establish that this specific action, with these
   specific parameters, falls within the constraints the human actually
   signed.  As agent autonomy and action throughput grow, the population
   of executed actions that no human individually bounded grows with it.
   This document is a problem statement.  It characterizes the gap
   between an authorized agent and an authorized action, explains why
   existing delegation, logging, and payment-mandate mechanisms do not
   close it, and states the requirements any solution would have to
   satisfy.  It defines no protocol or mechanism.

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