Bonded Agents: What a Surety Would Have to Establish Before Standing Behind an Autonomous Role.

An autonomous role can fail in two ways at once: it can breach an undertaking, and it can compromise the evidence needed to establish the breach. Where the deploying organization controls the execution record, the counterparty may depend on that organization both to perform and to preserve the proof of failure, and the record may faithfully show compliance with a mandate that whoever issued it had no authority to issue. This paper proposes an organizational undertaking, secured by a surety, under which specified failures of authority and of evidence are defaults of the secured obligation rather than conditions whose failure defeats the obligee's recovery. The undertaking carries three secured duties, boundary, authority, and evidence; the paper works out their triggers, the bounded inference that follows an evidence default, the delegation allocations, and the questions a surety would have to answer before writing. The contribution is the allocation and the argument for it, not a mechanism or a vehicle. Within a recorded search boundary, no identified arrangement combines examination of enumerated authority facts before writing with a secured evidence duty whose breach preserves the obligee's remedy. Whether the allocation can be supported technically, enforced legally, and financed economically remains open.