Before a desk lets a trading agent run without a human approving each order: ☐ Identity bound to a principal, not self-declared ☐ Authority scoped per task: this pair, this size, this window ☐ Execution verifiable by someone other than the operator ☐ History that follows the agent to the next venue Every exchange's agent account checks the second box, inside its own walls. Origins is built to check all four, at the protocol layer, so the boxes stay checked when the agent move