Why 'monitoring' isn't enough for AI agents — and how I made delegation cryptographically verifiable
The problem nobody talks about with AI agents We're rushing to give AI agents autonomy. An orchestrator agent calls a research agent, which calls a writer agent, which calls a tool. Each hop, one agent hands some of its authority to another. Every "AI governance" tool I looked at solves this the same way: it logs everything. You get a dashboard, a timeline, an audit trail. Which sounds great —…
Monitoring AI agents is not enough, as it only provides a claim rather than proof of authorization. As AI agents become more autonomous and regulations like the EU AI Act demand verifiable accountability, this gap becomes a real problem. To address this, delegations between agents should be cryptographically signed instead of just logged.
This allows anyone to verify the signature against the delegator's public key, ensuring that the server can verify the delegation but cannot forge it. The verified delegation chain provides an answer to the question, "prove it."
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