XIII. Agents Need Collateral Infrastructure

An agent cannot underwrite from a dashboard.

The next user of collateral infrastructure will not be an analyst. It will be an agent executing inside a policy loop. An agent needs callable tools, deterministic outputs, structured state, and a full audit trail for every action. That is why MINT's surface matters. It is not a natural language layer on top of a reporting system. It is a machine callable verification runtime. Tape scan, entity resolution, lien search, collision detection, compliance checks, monitoring, certification, reporting, lane analysis. The system returns structured JSON, executes the verification pipeline, then blocks, certifies, or escalates. Once that exists, collateral integrity moves from dashboard workflow to machine infrastructure.

50+ tools, 13 checkpoints, 4 control domains, structured JSON, full audit trail.

Sources: MINT for Agents HTML, MINT CLI notes.

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