Trust Composability: The Infrastructure Gap in the Agent Economy

As the agent economy scales, cross-organization delegation—where agents from different organizations must collaborate while verifying each other's identity and the end user's authorization—has become the critical bottleneck. Today's agent architectures largely fail this test because they lack shared identity infrastructure, forcing every inter-organizational transaction into expensive, ad-hoc bilateral negotiations. Without standardized trust mechanisms similar to those in mature systems like law, the agent economy will struggle to move beyond small-scale pilots.