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Morning Edition · Friday, October 2, 2026Published at 2:31 AM EDT · New York
Two Papers Try to Make Agent Authority Auditable Before Self-Evolving Agents Reach Production
One proposes a harness that separates proposing an action from proving its external effect, the other maps how safety properties break when agents keep rewriting their own memories, tools and skills.
Agent frameworks generally treat a tool call and its consequence as one event. Praxa, described in a new paper, argues that proposal, authority, dispatch, verified external effect and promotion to serving are five separate claims that deser…
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The Agent Skill Supply Chain Becomes an Attack Surface
As agents load third-party skills, tools and MCP servers at runtime, the gap between what a skill advertises and what it actually does becomes a recurring security failure mode, driving registries, attestation and zero-trust verification into the agent stack the way package signing came to software repositories.
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