Show HN: Kessa, a verifiable delegation and attestation system for AI agents
Kessa Attestation and enforcement for delegated agent authority. A human delegates to an org, the org to an agent, the agent to a sub-agent. Each hop narrows authority and never broadens it, and every consequential action is logged to a tamper-evident chain that an independent, offline verifier can re-check while trusting nothing of ours beyond public DID documents.
- ▪Kessa Attestation and enforcement for delegated agent authority.
- ▪A human delegates to an org, the org to an agent, the agent to a sub-agent.
- ▪Each hop narrows authority and never broadens it, and every consequential action is logged to a tamper-evident chain that an independent, offline verifier can re-check while trusting nothing of ours beyond public DID documents.
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Story provenance
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/Gneiss-Group/Kessa |
| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:53:05 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-11T16:00:47.972Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-11T16:00:47.972Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | _KKL9J5N4iwC · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Kessa Attestation and enforcement for delegated agent authority. A human delegates to an org, the org to an agent, the agent to a sub-agent. Each hop narrows authority and never broadens it, and every consequential action is logged to a tamper-evident chain that an independent, offline verifier can re-check while trusting nothing of ours beyond public DID documents. Same command, one byte changed between runs. The verifier fails at exactly the tampered entry and re-derives every verdict from the files alone. How the GIF is built and regenerated.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.