{"id":94,"date":"2026-07-09T11:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2075261567394795566"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:51:28","slug":"rt-by-jack-when-an-ai-agent-acts-on-your-behalf-it-shouldnt-become-you-think-of-a-pizza-delivery-driver-where-they-get-just-enough-information-to-complete-the-delivery-to-your-address-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"RT by @jack: When an AI agent acts on your behalf, it shouldn&apos;t become you. Think of a pizza delivery driver, where they get just enough information to complete the delivery to your address, not sign you up for cat fact mailers. Our engineering team published a deep dive on what we built to solve this: https:\/\/engineering.block.xyz\/blog\/whos-asking-identity-delegation-for-ai-agents-and-service-meshes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><![CDATA[\n\n<p>When an AI agent acts on your behalf, it shouldn&#8217;t become you. <br \/>n<br \/>nThink of a pizza delivery driver, where they get just enough information to complete the delivery to your address, not sign you up for cat fact mailers. Our engineering team published a deep dive on what we built to solve this: <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.block.xyz\/blog\/whos-asking-identity-delegation-for-ai-agents-and-service-meshes\">engineering.block.xyz\/blog\/w\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\nn\n\n<hr\/>\n\nn<b>Link<\/b><br \/>n<a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.block.xyz\/blog\/whos-asking-identity-delegation-for-ai-agents-and-service-meshes\">n<b>Who&apos;s Asking? Identity Delegation for AI Agents and Service Meshes<\/b>n<\/a>n\n\n<p>How Block uses User Identity Delegation to keep the user and the acting software visible, so services can answer who&apos;s asking and what&apos;s allowed.<\/p>\n\nn<small><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.block.xyz\/blog\/whos-asking-identity-delegation-for-ai-agents-and-service-meshes\">engineering.block.xyz<\/a><\/small>]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an AI agent acts on your behalf, it shouldn&#8217;t become you. nnThink of a pizza delivery driver, where they get just enough information to complete the delivery to your address, not sign you up for cat fact mailers. Our engineering team published a deep dive on what we built to solve this: engineering.block.xyz\/blog\/w\u2026 n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/governedbyidiots.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}