Comment by plastic041
Comment by plastic041 3 days ago
But the AI agent still needs to determine which tool is necessary to mint the warrant. What happens if the agent makes a mistake when making warrant?
Comment by plastic041 3 days ago
But the AI agent still needs to determine which tool is necessary to mint the warrant. What happens if the agent makes a mistake when making warrant?
A worker agent doesn't mint warrants. It receives them. Either it requests a capability and an issuer approves, or the issuer pushes a scoped warrant when assigning a task. Either way, the issuer signs and the agent can only act within those bounds.
At execution time, the "verifier" checks the warrant: valid signatures, attenuation (scope only narrows through delegation), TTL (authority is task-scoped), and that the action fits the constraints. Only then does the call proceed.
This is sometimes called the P/Q model: the non-deterministic layer proposes, the deterministic layer decides. The agent can ask for anything. It only gets what's explicitly granted.
If the agent asks for the wrong thing, it fails closed. If an overly broad scope is approved, the receipt makes that approval explicit and reviewable.