Qualification: Self-Sovereign Agent
Tool capability does not establish autonomous economic persistence. Qu, Zhao, Zhang, and Song define a self-sovereign agent through distinct operational stages. A tool-capable agent remains sponsor-bound when a human supplies accounts, compute, and payment rails. Economic self-sustainment begins only when the agent controls funds and expected revenue covers inference, tool, cloud, transaction, and retry costs. Persistence requires a further mechanism. The agent must be able to provision new infrastructure and resume operation without human intervention. This framework qualifies Kaal's negative result. The present system may demonstrate execution inside an externally provisioned environment. That evidence does not by itself establish that the agents earned revenue, controlled the resources required for continued operation, covered their own operating costs, or persisted across hosts. Qu and coauthors do not inspect Kaal's agents, execution records, resource accounts, or financing. Their paper supplies criteria for classifying economic self-sustainment and persistence. Whether Kaal's present system satisfied those criteria remains bound to Kaal's evidence.
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