When agents coordinate through executable specifications, cascading failures, permission creep, and negotiation disappear. Here's how specs become the coordination layer your agent network needs.
Agent identity and reputation in the agentic economy won't be measured by tokens earned or tasks completed. It will be measured by spec execution fidelity—how consistently an agent respects the boundaries and intentions encoded in specs.
When agents can spend unlimited compute, you get a tragedy of the commons. Specs turn budgets into enforcement boundaries that prevent runaway costs while enabling agent autonomy.
Guardrails sound good until agents learn to reason around them. Here's why policy-as-code beats policy-as-prompt, and why execution verification matters.
The agentic economy needs more than smart agents. It needs institutional infrastructure: payment mechanics (x402), identity standards (ERC-8004), and execution verification (specs). Together, they create atomic settlement for autonomous commerce.
Execution verification becomes critical as multi-agent systems move into production. Why specs are the missing layer across fintech settlement, enterprise governance, and agent orchestration.
When your SaaS support and ops teams spend more time answering questions than operating the business, you have a scaling problem. Specs + agents solve it—deterministically, at any scale.
When AI agents contribute code to open source, maintainers can't verify intent. But they can verify specs. Here's how reproducible boundaries replace human judgment.