Zero Trust for Agentic Systems — trust, safety, and security for agents. @mvpzone
Capability Floors
A team has identity controls, supply-chain verification, behavioural baselines, output validation. They feel ready. But readiness is not a checklist of controls — it is a floor set by the consequentiality of what the agent can do. The more an action can break, the higher the floor it must clear before it runs.
The Closure Pattern
A team audits their agentic system with a spreadsheet — controls as columns, trust and safety as rows, a score in each cell. But trust and safety are not scored once for the system; they close per item, per pillar, per facet. The closure pattern is how you tell coverage from theatre.
Lesson > Artifact
A team ships a framework: precise, systematic, complete. Engineers can implement from it. And still it doesn’t land — because the exposition is the artifact, and the artifact is not the lesson. What survives contact is the parable, not the spec. This is why we write the stories at all.