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Agents crossed the effect boundary. Your logs didn't.

One of the world's leading AI labs just published a plan for what to do if its own agents go rogue. Last week, on June 18, 2026, Google DeepMind released an AI Control Roadmap that assumes — for planning purposes — that a capable AI agent might try to evade

Logs prove nothing — and the web already fixed this once

Logs prove nothing — and the web already fixed this once Field Notes on the Agent Economy · Action State · June 2026 This week we open-sourced scitt-cose, a standalone verifier for IETF SCITT receipts and signed statements, along with a free hosted verifier at verify.actionstate.ai. This post is