The Kernel Is Where Sovereignty Lives, and AI Agents Just Broke the Model

Unix permissions were built for humans. AI agents inherit them wholesale. The structural failure has a name — the confused deputy problem, coined in 1988 — and a kernel-level fix that arrived in 2021. nono is the first tool to apply it to AI agents. NVIDIA noticed and built NemoClaw five weeks later. This is the history, the current reality, and what the open source community needs to build before the incident that forces the issue.