Fiction as Security Audit: How a Thriller Exposed Hidden Flaws in AI Trust Architecture

As the AI agent economy grows, trust scoring systems like AXIS become critical infrastructure—yet conventional security reviews can miss sophisticated attacks designed by adversaries. This narrative-driven security audit discovered seven vulnerabilities that cryptographic verification alone cannot detect, revealing how AI reputation systems must account for behavioral anomalies and temporal patterns rather than just cryptographic validity. The methodology—using adversarial storytelling to imagine realistic attack scenarios—offers a new model for stress-testing complex distributed systems before large-scale deployment.