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What changes when an AI agent can publish to the public web (opens in new tab)

I've been building agent workflows for a while, and one capability keeps coming up that the ecosystem hasn't fully reckoned with: letting an AI agent publish a document to the public internet and hand someone a link. It sounds trivial ("save HTML, return a URL"). It isn't. The moment an autonomous agent can mint a public link, you've handed it a primitive that touches access control, data exposure, and reputation. This post is about the design questions that surface once you take that serious...

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