X-108 -Temporal Safety Layer for Agentic Commerce

Autonomous agents in commerce operate in environments where actions are often irreversible: payments, orders, pricing changes, and contractual commitments. Speed is usually optimized, but in these contexts, speed becomes a structural risk. X-108 introduces a simple but fundamental idea: time itself is a security primitive. Before any irreversible action, the system must pass through a temporal HOLD state that tests stability across time, not intent or intelligence. X-108 is not an AI model, not a policy, and not a moral rule. It is a middleware layer that sits between cognition and action and enforces a HOLD → ACT transition only when a trajectory remains coherent under temporal constraints. Fast, unstable agents are structurally blocked. Stable systems naturally converge toward execution. We validated this principle not only on agentic systems, but also on non-intelligent mechanical systems, showing that HOLD emerges from structure itself, not from intelligence. X-108 is model-agnostic, non-bypassable, and applicable to any agentic commerce stack where responsibility and safety matter.