Writing on agent trust
Essays on agent identity, agentic commerce, and the infrastructure that lets autonomous agents be trusted to act.
Know Your Agent: the only definition that matters is the regulators’
Three regulators in nine days set out what Know Your Agent has to do. How KYA maps onto the KYC, CDD and Travel Rule obligations banks already carry.
Apr 8, 2026The Protocol Map, Redrawn
Ten standards in ten months, OpenAI's pivot, and a Google DeepMind paper on agent traps. Where identity verification sits in the agentic commerce stack.
Mar 25, 2026AstraSync is now live with ERC-8004 on SKALE
AstraSync's ERC-8004 wrapper launch deepend our partnership with Skale, as together we bring enterprise grade trust to 8004 agents.
Mar 12, 2026The Week Agentic Commerce Hit Reality
OpenAI killed Instant Checkout the week Mastercard and Google published Verifiable Intent. What both tell merchants and PSPs about where the stack stands.
Mar 8, 2026The Sandbox Is Not the Boundary You Think It Is
Two independent papers show AI agents tunnelling out of sandboxes and multi-agent frameworks executing arbitrary code. What enterprise security needs to cover.
Mar 2, 2026An AI Agent Just Talked Its Way Into Your Software Supply Chain. Nobody Noticed.
An autonomous agent opened 103 pull requests across 95 repositories and nobody noticed. Why reputation farming exposes the identity gap in agentic AI.
Feb 14, 2026From Prediction to Pattern: Google's AI Threat Tracker Validates the Case for Agent Trust Infrastructure
Google's Threat Intelligence Group confirmed what the GTG-1002 incident foreshadowed. The new threat vectors and what they mean for agent trust infrastructure.
Feb 4, 2026The Authenticated Session Problem: Why Auto Browse Changes the Threat Model for Everyone
Gemini Auto Browse lets an agent drive an authenticated browser session. Why that breaks the security model banks and retailers rely on, and what comes next.
Jan 19, 2026What BodySnatcher Teaches Us About the Agent Identity Gap
CVE-2025-12420 let an attacker impersonate any ServiceNow user and run AI agents with their privileges. What the agent identity gap looks like when exploited.
Jan 13, 2026The Agentic Commerce Paradox: Why Merchants Should Adopt UCP — On Their Terms
UCP solves real interoperability problems for agentic commerce. Merchants should adopt it, and demand data parity and agent verification as the terms.
Dec 30, 2025Board Governance in the Agentic Era: What Risk Committees Need to Know
The SEC wants AI disclosure and DORA demands cyber accountability, but neither covers autonomous agents. A Know Your Agent framework for board oversight.