Every marketplace has star ratings. Every API has rate limits. Every platform has a trust score.
And none of it matters when an AI agent you've never met asks to manage your portfolio.
A new paper from Tomašev, Franklin, and Osindero — "Intelligent AI Delegation" — lays out a framework for how AI agents should delegate tasks to each other. Reading it felt like looking in a mirror.
They're describing the exact problem Modality is built to solve. The paper proposes frameworks. We built the implementation — with cryptographic teeth.
The Pentagon reportedly wants to classify Anthropic as a supply chain risk. Anthropic wants guardrails on autonomous weapons. Both sides are right — and both are missing the same thing.
There is no technical enforcement layer between what an AI provider allows and what a deployer actually does. Terms of Service are legal documents, not technical controls. Verifiable constraints — cryptographically enforced, independently auditable deployment contracts — solve this for both sides.