# kaal:claim:7314479-003

**Claim.** Membership in the sovereign local agent runtime class turns on four testable properties: user-controlled execution, user-held state, heterogeneous composition, and machine-to-machine settlement.

**Type.** definitional  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- class membership checked against a running system rather than a description

**Source quote.**

> Membership in the class defended here turns on four properties, each of which can be checked against a running system rather than against a description of one.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes* (2026), II. The Sovereign Local Agent Runtime as a Class of System, page 5

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7314479

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**Topics.** ai-and-agents, institutional-design, research-methods

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