# kaal:claim:7314479-050

**Claim.** Before legal requirements can be evaluated automatically against a runtime's behavior, the runtime must produce a record of that behavior that survives the session and admits third-party interpretation, making durable provenance a precondition for the regulatory interface.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- machine-interpretable legal requirements applied to agent runtimes

**Source quote.**

> Before legal requirements can be evaluated automatically against a runtime's behavior, the runtime must produce a record of that behavior which survives the session and admits third-party interpretation. Requirement 2 is therefore a precondition for the regulatory interface, not merely for debugging.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes* (2026), X. The Institutional Interface: Proof Without Surrender, page 23

**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.** dynamic-regulation, law-and-legal-systems, compliance

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