# kaal:position:2026-09-26-001

**Affirmed position.** Authority that exists when reasoning begins is insufficient if it can disappear before an effect becomes durable. He and Yu add a concrete commit-time mechanism to this authority-drift problem. Their strict profile holds registered data, evidence, policy, and authority premises through durability; their compatible profile recertifies the effect against current dependencies and policy. The extension is conditional on complete registered footprints, trusted mediation, and effects that cannot bypass the gate. It does not establish semantic truth or production-wide safety.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-09-26

**Holds when.**

- delegation chains under a bounded original consent

**Current debate.** When AI Agents Commit: Cognitive Serializability Across Data, Evidence, Policy, and Authority: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20261v1

**Extends.** kaal:claim:7314479-015: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7314479-015

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

**Source PDF sha256.** `debace24a155ae924a155b1fafe98856d98cf83689feff2f87a32f1c06171ce6`

**Evidence level.** authoritative_abstract

**Mapping review tier.** independent evidence-first compound-growth review

**Mapping confidence.** unscored  **Mapping ambiguous.** false

**Topics.** consensus-and-security, governance-design, ai-and-agents

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-weekly-research:2026-09-26:daily-001 at https://wulfkaal.github.io/positions-src/2026-09-26-compound-growth-kaal-weekly-research-2026-09-26-daily-001.json.

**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.