Eval vs. Rating: The Missing Layer in AI Agent Trust

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"A reputation network based on vouches is useful for discovery, but it doesn't help you at runtime when a trusted agent's endpoint gets compromised or starts behaving outside its declared capabilities - a high trust score doesn't prevent prompt injection or scope creep mid-execution." That was Jairooh, commenting on a LangChain GitHub issue proposing the Joy Trust Network integration. It's the most honest sentence in the entire thread - and nobody in the ecosystem has fully reckoned with what it means.