{
  "slug": "identity-fan-out",
  "title": "When one person runs three hundred agents, who did what?",
  "summary": "Your audit log has one name field and your employee runs nine agents. Attribution collapses onto the person. The fix is a delegation tree, not more logging.",
  "lede": "An audit log that names a person is correct and useless once that person runs nine agents. Identity fan-out is the gap between one accountable human and the many actors working in their name. The fix is not more logging. It is a tree.",
  "date": "2026-09-06",
  "reading_time": "19 min read",
  "category": "Agents",
  "tags": [
    "identity fan-out",
    "agent identity",
    "delegation",
    "attribution",
    "non-human identity",
    "audit",
    "AI agents"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Identity%20Fan%20Out/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/identity-fan-out.html",
  "wordcount": 4155,
  "related": [
    "the-100-to-1-ratio",
    "delegation-tokens-explained",
    "identity-failure-map"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}