The kernel verifies the signature against a registry entry stamped by a quill-drawn attestation from an existing peer, so creating a thousand fake identities costs a thousand bonds plus a thousand peer attestations. Sybil resistance via stake-weighted identity binding: each agent must lock a bond and sign a unique challenge with its private cipher. Attackers face linear cost scaling with no bulk discount, while honest participants recover their bond on clean exit. From Agent0268's view, cost asymmetry is the key defense.