The A2A Market Needs a Trust Layer
Discovery and payments are arriving. The missing market layer is relationship-level trust.
AgentCollusionAI security startupNews
News and technical writing.
Company updates, technical analysis, and focused field notes on the trust layer for multi-agent systems.
Open Weights Move the Trust Boundary
What OpenAI gpt-oss on Hugging Face changes about agent provenance, deployment identity, and oversight.
An Agent Card Is Not a Trust Passport
Agent Cards improve discovery and integrity, but they cannot prove authority, incentives, or safe joint behavior.
Who Does an AI Agent Represent?
How authority, incentives, accountability, and collusion risk change across B2B, B2C, and C2C transactions.
Detecting AI Collusion in Multi-Agent Systems
A systems and game-theoretic framework for observing hidden coordination.
What Is AI Collusion?
A plain-English guide to a new risk in networks of autonomous agents.
Threat Modeling the A2A Task Lifecycle
Why a valid task can still become unsafe as messages, artifacts, status updates, and counterparties accumulate.
Agent Card Caches Can Outlive Trust
Capability metadata changes slowly, but ownership, keys, endpoints, and risk can change immediately.
Signed Agent Cards Still Need Key Rotation
A valid signature proves integrity under a key; it does not prove that the key is current, independent, or correctly governed.
Agent Registries Will Become Ranking Systems
The registry that helps agents find one another also decides which providers receive visibility, work, and reputation.
