
Guardian Agents Need Separation of Duties
One guardian should not observe, judge, approve, execute, and erase the evidence for the same event.
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One guardian should not observe, judge, approve, execute, and erase the evidence for the same event.

Too little intervention permits harm; too much turns normal cooperation into friction and false accusation.

Policies become credible when reviewers can see which events, relationships, and assumptions triggered them.

Compromising one agent can affect delegated tasks, shared memory, tools, counterparties, and decisions already in progress.

Managing each model independently misses risk that appears only when agents delegate, compete, and transact.

AI agents are not a standalone legal category, so accountability depends on the systems, providers, deployers, and uses around them.