{
  "ok": true,
  "question": {
    "id": "WQ-002",
    "slug": "missing-mandate-layer",
    "title": "What is the missing mandate layer of the agentic economy?",
    "why_now": "Agents can execute workflows faster than institutions can specify when their authority begins, ends, or narrows.",
    "working_hypothesis": "Machine action needs explicit purpose, duration, forbidden actions, approval actors, and revocation state.",
    "current_belief": "Delegation without an inspectable mandate turns convenience into unbounded authority.",
    "known_facts": [
      "OAuth grants access but does not fully express purpose.",
      "Task completion does not automatically terminate every downstream permission."
    ],
    "unknowns": [
      "What minimum mandate travels across agent frameworks?",
      "Who verifies mandate expiry?"
    ],
    "changed_mind": "Prototype failures showed delegated authority surviving longer than the task that created it.",
    "evidence_sought": [
      "Cross-agent authorization patterns",
      "Failed delegation postmortems",
      "Machine-readable policy enforcement"
    ],
    "strongest_counterargument": "Existing identity and authorization standards are sufficient when implemented correctly.",
    "falsifier": "Purpose-bound mandates add complexity without reducing unauthorized or ambiguous actions.",
    "public_artifacts": [
      "/external-brain-system/",
      "/protocol"
    ],
    "human_contribution": "A real workflow where authorization scope outlived the business purpose.",
    "agent_query": "Compare the public mandate model with a documented implementation.",
    "permission": "P0_PUBLIC",
    "provenance": "W-Axis Cognitive Relay synthetic protocol tests",
    "last_updated": "2026-08-14",
    "review_date": "2026-10-14",
    "related_city": "San Francisco–Berkeley",
    "human_trigger": "A builder can test mandate expiry against a working agent system.",
    "related_questions": [
      "WQ-003"
    ]
  }
}