THE USEFUL DISTINCTION
Starting a replacement is easy.
Knowing what it inherits is harder.
A process supervisor can start Agent B. Continuity records which role B occupies, which powers it has, what happened before, and which unfinished duties survive the change.
That matters when a security review outlives its original investigator. The replacement should receive enough authority to do its assigned work. It should not silently inherit every permission the previous agent had.
Who is acting? Agent A and Agent B remain distinct.
What may they do now, under the selected rules and history?
What unfinished duty remains, and who is assigned to perform it?
Blockchain, when you choose it
Developers and operators can choose a blockchain-backed deployment to make selected history publicly verifiable, or publish cryptographic commitments that let authorized reviewers check private records. This tutorial runs locally; blockchain integration is a separate deployment choice, with its own privacy, availability and finality requirements.
What the demonstration establishes
The same deterministic Core engine used by the reference application denies the obsolete signed request, preserves the OPEN duty, and checks the successor’s permission independently. A fresh local process can replay the retained history.
What it does not establish
This local tutorial uses public test keys and a trusted host. It does not isolate hostile programs, identify an attacker, prove that an incident is true, or guarantee that an investigation is finished. Protocol termination does not kill an operating-system process.
In a real integration, every consequential operation must go through a protected executor. An old ALLOW result is not permission to act later. An AI may propose work; it does not decide cryptographic or policy validity.
