The only application I see for this is AI-based bullshit, which makes this needlessly complicated.

Static scripts don’t get “confused”, and they certainly don’t get manipulated on a properly secured system. Why would you need an extra layer of security past the layers that already exist, when just properly securing the existing layers should be more than enough?

It's not a AI application. AI is just the loudest fire right now, not the whole point. Its a new authority substrate for the whole system, intent-bound and enforced at the kernel level. A static script doesn’t get “confused,” sure. But scripts can still be wrong, overbroad or run in the wrong context or inherit more authority than they need or sit behind a supply-chain change you didn’t expect. Same with normal userland processes.

KERNHELM isn’t “because scripts have feelings.” It’s because ambient authority is just a bad default.

Existing layers are useful. I’m not saying throw them out. This is a different authority shape. Instead of “is this user, process, category usually allowed,” the question becomes “was this specific privileged effect actually admitted through the trusted path and carry the users intent”

Agents make the issue obvious because they can be steered in plain language. But the substrate is broader than AI. Anything untrusted reaching for privileged effects should have to prove authority at the effect boundary. Be it malware, an active attacker, overbroad script, compromised process or an AI agent.