Journal article
A Trust Score Needs a Consumer: Four Places a Per-Source Trust Value Can Act on an LLM Agent, the Missing Test of a Graded Discount Against an Adaptive Attacker, and Why the Defences That Report Guarantees Use a Gate Instead of a Score
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Work on trust between language-model agents produces two kinds of object. Protocol work produces identity, attestation, stake and constraint, all bound at the transport layer before any content reaches a model. Behavioural work produces a…