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Re:Gemini Just Deleted Another Machine on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:18PM (#50397859)
I use droneship, it basically feels the same as running locally (droneship run claude) but it runs in a cloud sandbox with easy egress control. It takes running snapshots that you can rollback and you can diff the workspace and pull to bring the changes back to your local.
Author here, I ran a MITM dump on Claude Code sessions to see what actually gets sent over the wire and what makes the safety classifier tick.
Re:What happens when you can't pull the plug on your agent? on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @11:42AM (#47949987)
We take a look at the recent incident where Meta's AI Alignment director was unable to stop her Openclaw agent from deleting her emails. The root cause is reliance on in-band signalling, we show how revocable agent identities can be used to implement an out-of-band kill switch for agents.
The identity platform does not detect anomolies on its own, it is intended to integrate with guardrails and ingest security signals. We offer a hosted platform that does it all, you can try for free here https://studio.highflame.ai/sign-up
The Meta director's Openclaw incident was caused by context compaction deleting core instructions, but the root cause is having in-band agent control. We develop an out-of-band agent kill switch integrated into our open-source agent identity platform ZeroID.

https://github.com/highflame-ai/zeroid (see examples directory for Openclaw integration).

Yeah basically, every token carries the full chain of which agent did this, under whose authority, and with what permissions.
Hi, what are your thoughts on agent identity?
The recent OIDF white paper on agent identity management [0] lists several problems with the current state of AI agent identity, namely: Agents impersonating users, recursive authority delegation, and revocation propagation.

While these problems are technically solvable by composing existing standards, in practice nobody does it. The gap between 'read the RFCs' and 'running in production' is where agent identity dies. ZeroID closes that gap.

Delegation over Identity Inheritance: We implement RFC 8693 (Token Exchange) so credentials carry the full actor chain (User → Agent A → Agent B) instead of collapsing everyone behind the user's identity.

Managed SPIFFE: Every agent gets a cryptographically verifiable workload identity (WIMSE/SPIFFE URI) without the operational overhead of running SPIRE, managing SVIDs, or handling rotation for ephemeral agents.

Revocation Propagation: We implement cascading revocation, when a parent token is revoked, the entire chain of tokens derived from the parent is immediately invalidated.

We're keeping this open-source because identity shouldn't be a proprietary silo.

(Diclaimer, I work at Highflame, the company behind ZeroID)

OIDF Whitepaper: [0] https://openid.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Identity-Manag...

Show HN: ZeroID – Open-source identity for AI agents based on OIDF standards

https://github.com/highflame-ai/zeroid

ZeroID is an open-source agent identity platform that automates the "plumbing" of RFC 8693 and SPIRE. It ensures that every sub-agent in a chain has a down-scoped, verifiable identity without the manual overhead of managing certificates and token exchanges.

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Author here, this looks very cool, I wasn't aware such tools existed already. The model I created for that blog was kind of a crude PoC, but it's encouraging that it at least can be detected. Do you mind giving a high level overview how Palisade works?