Accountable Delegation for AI Agents: A Proof-of-Concept with Economic Stakes

AI agents are already executing consequential actions. They’re making API calls, writing to databases, triggering financial operations. The infrastructure question most teams are focused on right now is: how do we know who the agent is? That’s a reasonable place to start. But there’s a harder question sitting one layer above it: how do we know who authorized the agent to act, within what scope, and whether that person had any stake committed when they gave the order? Auth tokens answer the first question. They don’t touch the second.