experimental-ext-tool-annot.../docs/related-work.md
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spec(ifc-fides): address review; reframe action-metadata for SEP-2061 closure
ifc-fides (review by @JoannaaKL):
- confidentiality is public/private only on the wire; drop the reader-list
  (logins aren't uniform across servers, are themselves access-restricted,
  and reader sets can be huge)
- add Reader-set resolution section: two private markers aren't equal, the
  confidentiality join is the intersection and isn't computable from opaque
  wire markers, so hosts resolve to concrete reader sets at decision time
- integrity join is total/wire-computable; confidentiality join is not
- emitter MUST classify per resource, not per repository (public repos serve
  non-world-readable sub-resources), making github-mcp-server a real proof point

action-metadata / docs:
- SEP-2061 closed 2026-06-13 in favour of this extension; this draft is now the
  canonical home. Updated action-metadata.mdx, README, sep-disposition,
  related-work, and intent-comment status accordingly.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-15 23:29:44 +02:00

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Related work

External references and prior art relevant to the IG's trust / privacy annotation work. Several were surfaced in IG meetings (notably 2026-05-28).

SEPs

Research

  • FIDES — Information-flow control for LLM agents. arXiv:2505.23643. Basis for the ifc.fides.v1 profile.
  • Design Patterns for Securing LLM Agents — IBM/Google/Microsoft. arXiv:2506.08837. Plan-Then-Execute, Dual LLM, Map-Reduce, etc.
  • Trail of Bits — prompt-injection via hidden content in GitHub issues. blog.
  • OpenAI Auto Review — https://alignment.openai.com/auto-review/ (shared in IG chat).

Implementations & tooling

  • kapil8811/mcp-trust-annotations — reference Python SDK PoC for trust-annotations.
  • github-mcp-server — public MCP server; emitter candidate for ifc-fides (knows repo visibility + collaborators).
  • Ethyca data-labeling docs — https://www.ethyca.com/docs (shared in IG chat).
  • GitHub Next agentic-workflows research on data labeling — to be documented as issues in this repo (IG action item, @gokhanarkan / @joannakl).

Adjacent community proposals (from the SEP-1913 thread)

  • SINT Protocol (capability-token constraint enforcement) — pshkv.
  • in-toto attestations as a trust-annotation substrate.
  • OVERT 1.0 envelope shape for runtime evidence.
  • Caller/tool cosigning model — viftode4.
  • Sequence-shape policies — marras0914.

These are exactly the models that evidenceRef's open type is designed to accommodate as profiles.