# kaal:position:2026-08-08-320

**Affirmed position.** Architecture comes first. Touloupou and Kapassa supply an independent specification for Kaal's definitional claim. Their systematic survey treats agent registries as a first coordination layer through which agents announce capabilities and discover counterparties without a centralized directory. Separately, the authors classify reputation accumulated from past behavior as a longer-horizon coordination substrate because non-transferability prevents purchase and ties standing to actual agent history rather than financial position.

This extends Kaal's substrate definition. Persistent reputation is not merely descriptive metadata. In the surveyed architecture, it informs counterparty discovery, task-market verification, and decentralized quality filtering. Yet the source separates identity, registries, task markets, settlement, and reputation. That distinction matters. It supports a coordination architecture organized around persistent, non-transferable reputation, but it does not establish that reputation alone constitutes the entire substrate.

The article synthesizes 177 peer-reviewed publications and 14 system-documentation sources. Its coordination ratings are qualitative assessments, not universal empirical findings. The survey does not test Kaal's controlled cohort, evaluate his reference implementation, or establish performance, security, and resistance to identity replacement. Its contribution is architectural. It independently connects autonomous-agent coordination to persistent identity, accumulated history, and non-transferable reputation.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-08-08

**Holds when.**

- The response is limited to two evidence-bound passages and the one mapped Kaal claim.
- External evidence level: complete peer-reviewed Future Internet version of record bound through DOI, PDF and XML hashes, Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, DOAJ, title, authors, date, CC BY license, and printed-page locators.
- Mapping review tier: independent substantive scholarly-growth extension.
- The survey separates identity, registries, task markets, settlement, and reputation and does not treat reputation as the entire substrate.
- Its coordination ratings are qualitative assessments rather than universal empirical findings.
- It does not test Kaal's controlled cohort or evaluate his reference implementation.
- It does not establish performance, security, or resistance to identity replacement.
- Semantic Scholar fresh search returned HTTP 429, while the DOI-specific Semantic Scholar record returned HTTP 200.

**Current debate.** Decentralized AI Agents and Blockchain: Architectures, Coordination Mechanisms, and Governance Frameworks: https://doi.org/10.3390/fi18070352

**Extends.** kaal:claim:7261018-023: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7261018-023

**Scholarly basis.** Wulf A. Kaal, Empirical Evaluation of the Agentic Reputation Substrate: Deliberation, the Composition of Error, and the Registered Measurement of Agency Costs in a Controlled Multi-Model Cohort (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7261018

**Source PDF sha256.** `1d6cbe544bd0055133f7cf8ff308be4fde955867bd8dc764992b8d516af15fa8`

**Evidence level.** complete peer-reviewed Future Internet version of record bound through DOI, PDF and XML hashes, Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, DOAJ, title, authors, date, CC BY license, and printed-page locators

**Mapping review tier.** independent substantive scholarly-growth extension

**Mapping confidence.** 0.99  **Mapping ambiguous.** false

**Topics.** ai-and-agents, reputation, institutional-design, scholarly-growth-coverage, scholarly-literature, agent-coordination, persistent-identity, non-transferable-reputation

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-12:scholarly-growth-7261018-023-reviewed-v1 at https://wulfkaal.github.io/positions/by-claim/7261018-023.html.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.