# kaal:claim:7314479-010

**Claim.** A trusted core that brokers every crossing supplies shared answers to identity, authority, and permitted data use, but not to responsibility, remedy, or value attribution, which are settled between the parties to a particular outcome.

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

**Holds when.**

- core-mediated runtimes without a common institutional layer

**Source quote.**

> What such a core does not supply is a shared answer to responsibility, to remedy, or to value attribution, because those are settled between the parties to a particular outcome rather than at the boundary of a particular call.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes* (2026), IV. Connectivity Is Not Coordination, page 9

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

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**Topics.** institutional-design, governance-design, ai-and-agents

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