A response to the Bank of England's Retail Payments Infrastructure Board on agentic payments and advanced delegation: what the published agent-payment protocols do not produce when a human is brought back into the loop, why the rails cannot reconstruct the authority decision, and the narrow capability that would let an executed agentic payment be joined to the authority that permitted it.
The Drift Layer
Papers
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Four Measures for Mandate Conformance
The measurement vocabulary: evaluation coverage, mandate conformance, divergence incidence over six predicate classes, and unauthorised continuation — with the ways each of them can be made to lie, published beside them.