News
Talks, writing, and public work.
Where Action State has appeared in public, newest first. Each entry links to the source.
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23 Oct 2026 · upcoming · Talk
AGNTCon · MCPCon North America, San Jose ↗
Steven Mih speaks in the Multi-Agent & Distributed Systems track, on composing agent identity with records of what agents did.
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9 Oct 2026 · Writing
Independent AI Evaluation Needs Independently Verifiable Evidence ↗
On Field Notes: what record an independent evaluator can rely on, and what has to exist for it to be useful to someone who was not there when it was made.
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22 Sept 2026 · Webinar
AIE Network webinar with Mark Hinkle and Imran Siddique
The TRACE Registry and agent evidence anyone can check: signed checkpoints, a public witness, and an offline verifier, shown live. Event page ↗
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4–21 Sept 2026 · Upstream
Five changes merged into mesh-llm
Serving provenance and a weights digest on the host-served path, a per-request client nonce, lifecycle hooks for out-of-process plugins, and a claimed log head on peer announcements: #1437 · #1397 · #1708 · #1841 · #1709.
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17 Sept 2026 · Talk
AGNTCon · MCPCon Europe, Amsterdam
“Six Months of Proof: Independently-Verifiable Records for Agent Actions Under the EU AI Act”. Slides, session link, and a five-line summary.
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14 Sept 2026 · Writing
Deep-dive: how the public TRACE Registry is built to be distrusted ↗
Co-written by Steven Mih and Imran Siddique, on Field Notes: how a registry publishes its own history so no viewer has to take it on trust.
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Jul–Sept 2026 · IETF
Seven Internet-Drafts on the Datatracker
Agent Action Capsule ↗ · selective disclosure ↗ · Canonical Payload Binding ↗ · Checkpointed Local Log ↗ · accountability composition ↗ · bilateral attestation ↗ · accountability conformance ↗
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Jul 2026 · IETF
IETF 126, Vienna: SCITT session slides ↗
Independent implementations computed identical bytes. The Agent Action Capsule project was also at the IETF 126 Hackathon ↗.