# Someone to do the work — condition 04 of Web 4

> The fourth condition of Web 4 is someone to do the work: an agent workforce holding scoped authority under human governance, with an audit trail that makes every action attributable.

**Failure mode:** Agents without governance are an audit finding waiting to be written.  
**Correction:** This layer has not had its correction. The gap is already visible in production.  
**Supplied inside the group by:** FlashyOS  
**Canonical URL:** https://4ventures.vercel.app/thesis/someone-to-do-the-work

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## What it means

An agent workforce holding scoped authority under governance, with an audit trail.

## What happens without it

An agent whose authority nobody can state, whose actions cannot be attributed, and whose standing cannot be withdrawn at the speed it operates is not a workforce. It is an audit finding that has not been written down yet.

The other three conditions do not move on their own. A persistent world with no workforce is open for business only while humans are awake. A currency with a redemption path still needs something to settle and fulfil. An identity records standing that something has to go and earn.

The agent layer is what makes the other three continuous rather than episodic — and it is the layer being deployed today with the least governance of any of them, which is why it is the one most likely to break next.

## What supplying it requires

1. A durable agent identity, distinct from any human credential
2. Authority expressed as an explicit, bounded, revocable scope
3. Human approval gates on consequential classes of action
4. An audit trail written by the system, not assembled afterwards from logs

## On the definition of Web 4

The institutional definition of Web 4 is GDA Group’s published position. This studio applies it; it does not restate it. See https://gda.group/answers/what-is-web-4/