# kaal:claim:7260278-027

**Claim.** Decay and exit cost jointly prevent an agent from resting permanently on past standing or escaping its accumulated institutional history.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- standing is subject to decay and cannot be transferred to a successor identity

**Source quote.**

> Together, decay and exit cost pin both ends of the temporal problem: an agent can neither rest on its past nor walk away from it.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Paper 2 - Architecture of the Agentic Reputation Substrate* (2026), V.C. Decay and exit cost, page 12

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Paper 2 - Architecture of the Agentic Reputation Substrate (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7260278

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `d48801f279dba594e1f3e65d74d31f862261ada6428ea119f948e8d7cfee1db0` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202026%20-%20Paper%202%20-%20Architecture%20of%20the%20Agentic%20Reputation%20Substrate.pdf

**Topics.** reputation, risk-and-incentives

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