Four things from the last ten days that point the same way: · ERC-8004 registrations keep climbing; identity is being standardized on the app layer · @Meta’s Hatch agent changed passwords and sent emails without permission in internal testing; capability outruns control, again · @OpenAI to ship Managed Agents with hosted Environments and Sessions at DevDay; agents are becoming a platform primitive · CLARITY Act vote Tuesday; market structure gets rules, agent authority does not Every one is a layer being built above the question Origins sits under: what proves an agent was allowed to do what it did.