The moment this crystallized for me was reading about OpenClaw - runs locally, acts autonomously, and use third-party skills. Powerful concept. But as I went through the architecture I kept asking the same question: if this agent acts on my behalf, books something, sends something, deletes something — and something goes wrong — how does anyone trace that back to me? The audit trail wasn't there. Not because the builders didn't care, but because nobody has solved the underlying problem yet. That's when I stopped thinking about this as a product gap and started thinking about it as a missing layer in the infrastructure of the internet itself. That's when it became a manifesto.
I'm Eduardo Vega, the author. I'm a senior engineer specializing in identity, trust, and distributed systems, CISSP certified. I intentionally kept my name off the site and paper — the framework is public domain and I wanted the ideas to stand alone. Happy to own it publicly: this is my work, and I'm here to discuss the architecture, the gaps, and what I got wrong.