Added entry for Who Holds the Keys to the Agent Web — Part 3: Who Keeps the Record

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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     "core_claim": "The software industry's value-producing mechanisms have already collapsed. Implementation is no longer scarce. Incumbents deploy defensive measures that delay recognition but cannot reverse the structural shift. Value migrates to the context/integration layer.",
     "tags": ["software collapse", "value capture", "open infrastructure", "context graphs", "platform capture", "AI industry"],
     "evidence_sources": ["OpenClaw", "DeepSeek", "MCP", "mem0", "Klarna", "Salesforce", "Unity", "Reddit", "ChatGPT", "AAIF", "Linux Foundation"],
-    "related_articles": ["the-humans-wont-be-called-back", "who-holds-the-keys-part-1", "who-holds-the-keys-part-2", "two-bridges-to-the-same-place", "tools-multiply-seats-collapse"]
+    "related_articles": ["the-humans-wont-be-called-back", "who-holds-the-keys-part-1", "who-holds-the-keys-part-2", "who-holds-the-keys-part-3", "two-bridges-to-the-same-place", "tools-multiply-seats-collapse"]
   },
   {
     "id": "the-humans-wont-be-called-back",
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
     "core_claim": "Authentication — not discovery, not execution — is the primary capture point in the emerging AI agent layer. Identity vendors are positioning to become the default delegation layer for agent permissions.",
     "tags": ["agent authentication", "identity vendors", "credential capture", "local-first", "delegation broker", "MCP"],
     "evidence_sources": ["Stytch", "Auth0/Okta", "WorkOS", "Bitwarden MCP server", "Docker MCP Toolkit", "OAuth", "CLAUDE.md", "AGENTS.md", "llms.txt"],
-    "related_articles": ["thesis", "who-holds-the-keys-part-2"]
+    "related_articles": ["thesis", "who-holds-the-keys-part-2", "who-holds-the-keys-part-3"]
   },
   {
     "id": "who-holds-the-keys-part-2",
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
     "core_claim": "The agent commerce infrastructure is being built now. The commercial graph — transaction history, legitimacy layer, reasoning traces — is the capture mechanism. Whoever holds the canonical record of what was agreed holds the most valuable layer.",
     "tags": ["agent commerce", "commercial graph", "payment rails", "trust registries", "autonomous wallets", "discovery protocols"],
     "evidence_sources": ["Google A2A/UCP", "Stripe MPP", "x402 Foundation", "Olas/Gnosis autonomous agents", "Stanford NegotiationArena", "Microsoft Magentic Marketplace", "Princeton agent manipulation research", "IETF Agent Identity and Discovery draft"],
-    "related_articles": ["thesis", "who-holds-the-keys-part-1"]
+    "related_articles": ["thesis", "who-holds-the-keys-part-1", "who-holds-the-keys-part-3"]
   },
   {
     "id": "two-bridges-to-the-same-place",
@@ -95,5 +95,21 @@
     "tags": ["per-seat pricing", "tool-makers", "coordination surfaces", "SaaS collapse", "agent adoption", "vendor sorting"],
     "evidence_sources": ["Jensen Huang / Dwarkesh Patel interview", "HubSpot Prospecting Agent", "Adobe Firefly Enterprise", "Salesforce Agentforce", "Reuters SaaS wipeout data", "Atlassian earnings"],
     "related_articles": ["thesis", "two-bridges-to-the-same-place", "the-humans-wont-be-called-back"]
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "who-holds-the-keys-part-3",
+    "title": "Who Holds the Keys to the Agent Web — Part 3: Who Keeps the Record",
+    "author": "Lida Liberopoulou",
+    "date": "2026-05-09",
+    "word_count": 5500,
+    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
+    "filename": "who-holds-the-keys-part-3.md",
+    "canonical_url": "https://threadbaire.com/blog/posts/who-holds-the-keys-to-the-agent-web-part-3.html",
+    "canonical_md": "https://threadbaire.com/blog/posts/who-holds-the-keys-to-the-agent-web-part-3.md",
+    "arc_position": "Third in the triptych. Completes the agent web capture sequence: authentication (security) → commerce (efficiency) → post-transaction (accumulation). First practical procurement framework in the series.",
+    "core_claim": "The deepest capture in agent commerce occurs after the session closes, through autopilot services that accumulate operational context as a byproduct of doing the work competently. The risk is not that the vendor trains on your data — it is that the vendor becomes the only party that can explain how the work was done.",
+    "tags": ["post-transaction capture", "autopilot services", "outsourcing wedge", "memory lock-in", "procurement", "agent commerce", "portability"],
+    "evidence_sources": ["Harvey", "Sierra", "Writer", "Cogent", "Lindy", "Sequoia Capital", "Bessemer Venture Partners", "Cohen & Levinthal (absorptive capacity)", "GDPR/Data Act/DMA portability gaps", "EU AI Act high-risk logging", "Ethical Black Box proposal", "IETF SCITT", "VCAP/ADRP", "Singapore 2026 Model AI Governance Framework", "HL7 FHIR", "Accord Project", "SOAP/WSDL/UDDI", "APIX", "agent:// URI scheme", "UETA/E-SIGN Act", "Anthropic dreaming", "mem0", "Letta", "EU model contractual clauses", "GSA draft AI terms"],
+    "related_articles": ["thesis", "who-holds-the-keys-part-1", "who-holds-the-keys-part-2"]
   }
 ]