Epoch-Bound Attested Execution v0.5: Bounding AI Agents' Real-World Authority
Published July 27, 2026 | Version v2 Preprint Open Epoch-Bound Attested Execution (EBAE): A Protocol for Bounding the Real-World Authority of Autonomous Agents Authors/Creators Lane, Michael (Researcher) Description Epoch-Bound Attested Execution (EBAE) separates an agent’s…
- ▪Published July 27, 2026 | Version v2 Preprint Open Epoch-Bound Attested Execution (EBAE): A Protocol for Bounding the Real-World Authority of Autonomous Agents Authors/Creators Lane, Michael (Researcher) Description Epoch-Bound Attested Exe
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| Original publisher | Zenodo |
| Canonical URL | https://zenodo.org/records/21625403 |
| Publication time | Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:59:54 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-27T13:06:18.014Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-27T13:06:18.014Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | IBvimcyo6Pdb · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Published July 27, 2026 | Version v2 Preprint Open Epoch-Bound Attested Execution (EBAE): A Protocol for Bounding the Real-World Authority of Autonomous Agents Authors/Creators Lane, Michael (Researcher) Description Epoch-Bound Attested Execution (EBAE) separates an agent’s ability to propose an action from a protected executor’s authority to release it. Authority is organized into epochs; within an epoch, an action is released only when the active manifest, a one-use certificate for the exact intent, the cryptographic profile, policy, freshness, and anti-rollback state all belong to the same epoch and agree on the same action — a condition captured as an Authorization Closure Digest.
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