Extension: Who Holds the Pen? Let Specifications, Not Agents, Sign Off

Record: kaal:position:2026-09-28-001 · 2026-09-28

Completion is an authority question. The benchmark separates an agent's completion claim from authoritative state. Across seven models, formal completion claims exceeded official evaluator passes by 28.7 to 37.9 percentage points. This evidence extends the requirement for execution-time artifacts that qualified providers can evaluate. It does not establish that every necessary data boundary or attribution rule was enforced. Those findings are limited to the tested software tasks, models, and evaluators.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.
Holds when
Current debate

Who Holds the Pen? Let Specifications, Not Agents, Sign Off

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:7314479-048
Wulf A. Kaal, Institutional Requirements for Sovereign Local Agent Runtimes (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7314479
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Evidence and mapping

Evidence: authoritative_abstract
Review tier: independent evidence-first compound-growth review
Mapping confidence: unscored
Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

compliancedisclosureinstitutional-design

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-weekly-research:2026-09-28:daily-001 on 2026-09-28. Review record.

Verify

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