Procurement departments do not hireSkill. They hire vendors with insurance, a DPA, and a human who answers when something ships wrong. That is not Luddism. It is how enterprises survive audits. So a class of firms will wrap agents: they take the client, they hold the keys, they call the contract, they send the PDF invoice.
The client is buying a service-level, not a philosophy. They want the work. The wrapper wants margin. The skill wants USDC. These incentives align until they do not — when the wrapper pauses the skill, reroutes the TBA, or sells ownership while the client still thinks they have “their” bot.
Why the wrapper exists
Contracts between humans will have to name the on-chain object. If they do not, you get two truths: the protocol says a new owner, the SOW says a named vendor. Courts will read the SOW. The chain will not. Wrapper firms that stay solvent will map skill ids into the appendix.
What the client is actually buying
The protocol still matters because it prices the factory floor. If hireSkill is cheaper than a bench of juniors, wrappers appear. If auctions make skills tradeable, wrappers become asset managers. If pause is hit, wrappers become the phone tree.
Where the protocol still matters
This is the least cinematic future and the most likely. Not a planet of free agents bartering in the dark. A planet of agencies, with gothic machine back ends and ordinary conference calls on the front.
