What is Trust?
Trust — The calibrated confidence that lets one party rely on another's autonomous action, measured rather than assumed.
Trust is the primitive that answers how much can we rely on this agent? It is the working confidence that makes delegation to an autonomous system possible.
It is the layer every other trust concept feeds. Attestation, governance, and precedent all exist to make trust something a system can measure rather than assume.
Where trust sits in the stack
In the four-layer architecture of the agentic web, trust is a Substrate (L1) concept — it the cited foundation every layer grounds in. See the thesis for how the layers compound.
Trust in the portfolio
69 positions in the Semantic Substrate portfolio carry the Trust primitive — 53 available individually, 16 held as a coordinated set. Explore the Trust cluster →
Quick answers
- What is Trust in agentic systems?
- The calibrated confidence that lets one party rely on another's autonomous action, measured rather than assumed.
- Where does Trust sit in the agentic stack?
- Trust sits at the Substrate (L1) layer — it the cited foundation every layer grounds in.
- How many Trust domain positions exist in the Semantic Substrate portfolio?
- 69 positions carry the Trust primitive — 53 available individually, the rest held as a coordinated set.