# kaal:claim:7314479-020

**Claim.** Reputation may inform discovery, routing, pricing, and allocation but may never grant permission, enlarge authority, or substitute for an enforcement boundary, because violating this separation destroys the other institutional requirements.

**Type.** normative  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- coordination layers for sovereign local agent runtimes

**Source quote.**

> Reputation may inform discovery, routing, pricing, and allocation. It may never grant permission, enlarge authority, or substitute for an enforcement boundary. This is the first requirement because violating it destroys the others.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes* (2026), VI. Six Institutional Requirements, Requirement 1, page 11

**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.** reputation, consensus-and-security, governance-design

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