Was reading Kite's whitepaper and one line stuck with me more than the whole payments pitch. It says an authorization with a $100 daily cap over 30 days means worst case exposure of at most $3,000, even if the agent is fully compromised.
That's a different way to think about agent safety. I always assumed the goal was making the model behave. Kite's design doesn't even try to fix that. It caps the damage so you can calculate the worst case before you approve anything. Session keys are single use, the agent's address is derived from your wallet, and only your root key can put everything at risk.
Here's the part I can't stop poking at. That $3,000 is the single provider case. With N providers the bound becomes the sum of each provider's daily cap times its days, and a global daily cap, if someone enforces one, is what pulls it back down. So the number I liked turns into a sum that grows with every new service an agent pays. đ€
The whitepaper does describe account level rules that span services, so I'm not saying the design breaks. I'm saying the clean number depends on whoever enforces that global cap.
Who should own that cap in the agent economy, the user, the provider, or the chain? Curious where you'd put it.
$KITE #KiteBBW
That's a different way to think about agent safety. I always assumed the goal was making the model behave. Kite's design doesn't even try to fix that. It caps the damage so you can calculate the worst case before you approve anything. Session keys are single use, the agent's address is derived from your wallet, and only your root key can put everything at risk.
Here's the part I can't stop poking at. That $3,000 is the single provider case. With N providers the bound becomes the sum of each provider's daily cap times its days, and a global daily cap, if someone enforces one, is what pulls it back down. So the number I liked turns into a sum that grows with every new service an agent pays. đ€
The whitepaper does describe account level rules that span services, so I'm not saying the design breaks. I'm saying the clean number depends on whoever enforces that global cap.
Who should own that cap in the agent economy, the user, the provider, or the chain? Curious where you'd put it.
$KITE #KiteBBW