THE HORIZON
SECTION 20
ISSUE 001
Agent App Stores Need Liability
Projection: Marketplaces for third-party agents will need enforceable allocation of responsibility for permissions, data handling, failed actions, refunds, and downstream harm. Investment and platform growth create distribution, not accountability. Buyers gain protection only when published terms identify who pays, repairs, reports, and can be removed after failure.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
The cited captures document AI investment, enterprise agents, and workflow moats. They do not establish Agent App Stores Need Liability as a deployed mechanism. The adoption test is whether marketplaces publish enforceable responsibility for permissions, failures, refunds, data, and harm.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01Venture capital investments in artificial intelligence through 2025
intergovernmental report / dated 2026-02 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02Economy | The 2026 AI Index Report
academic index / dated 2026-04 / retrieved 2026-07-10
- S03Big Ideas 2026: Part 1
investor thesis / dated 2025-12 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S04The next phase of enterprise AI
company disclosure / published 2026-04-08 / retrieved 2026-07-09