# kaal:claim:5886442-032

**Claim.** Principal agent frictions reemerge in new forms in the agentic economy, as user sovereign bring your own agents compete with platform controlled bowling shoe agents, creating incentives for proprietary enclosure and interoperability throttling.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- arises where agent platforms are controlled by intermediaries rather than by users

**Source quote.**

> Principal-agent frictions reemerge in new forms: user-sovereign "bring-your-own" agents compete with platform-controlled "bowling-shoe" agents, creating incentives for proprietary enclosure and interoperability throttling

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory* (2025), Toward an Emergent Theory of the AI-to-AI Economy, page 35

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The AI-to-AI Economy and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Economic Theory (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886442

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**Failure mode.** proprietary agent enclosure  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** ai-and-agents, corporate-governance

**Keywords.** principal-agent, platform-enclosure, interoperability, agent-sovereignty

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