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Ian Staley

IIC University of Technology

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Open access 2026

When Does Authorization Expire? Capability-Delta Evaluation for Self-Improving AI Agents

Self-improving agents modify themselves and retain modifications that improve measured task performance. Where a deployment lacks a separate authorization-transfer check, the modified agent inherits the production authorization issued to the version it replaces. These are two decisions, not one: whether to keep a modif...

Ian Staley · 0 citations
Open access 2026

Expressible, Advisory, or Unenforceable: A Conformance Analysis of Delegated Financial Authority in Deployed Agent-Payment Protocols

This paper defines an authorization envelope of eight fields drawn from the delegated-authority literature and from the control primitives of existing payment rails, comprising a per-transaction ceiling, a cumulative ceiling, a merchant set, a category set, required product attributes, a validity window, a substitution...

Ian Staley · 0 citations

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