# kaal:claim:7314479-013

**Claim.** The accountability gap in sovereign runtimes resolves into four independently diagnosable failure conditions: attribution failure, authority drift, evaluative capture, and recourse vacuum.

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

**Holds when.**

- sovereign local agent runtimes

**Source quote.**

> The gap is not vagueness about trust. Vagueness about trust is a symptom. The condition resolves into four failure conditions, each independently diagnosable and each with a distinct remedy.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes* (2026), V. The Accountability Gap, Stated Precisely, page 9

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

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `debace24a155ae924a155b1fafe98856d98cf83689feff2f87a32f1c06171ce6` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202026%20-%20Institutional%20Requirements%20for%20Sovereign%20Local%20Agent%20Runtimes.pdf

**Topics.** governance-design, institutional-design, risk-and-incentives

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