
Non-Repudiation Needs More Than a Signature
A signed action can prove origin and integrity without proving informed authority or a fair decision process.
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A signed action can prove origin and integrity without proving informed authority or a fair decision process.

A user approving a final action creates different evidence from a standing intent executed later by agents.

Forwarding the client’s bearer token to an upstream API erases audience boundaries and creates confused deputies.

OAuth resource parameters help ensure a token issued for one tool cannot be replayed at another.

Agents often choose tools from natural-language metadata that can redirect plans before any protected call occurs.

Discovering an authorization server is useful only if the client can prove it belongs to the intended protected resource.

When protocol features move or disappear, monitoring and authorization designs built around them can silently weaken.

Removing transport sessions improves scalability but forces systems to preserve task and principal continuity elsewhere.

Cancellation is not merely user experience; it is the mechanism that limits an autonomous plan after risk changes.

An agent may treat a tool result as fact even after it has crossed servers, summaries, memories, and other agents.