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Readiness verdict

WebAuthn Conditional Create (Automatic Passkey Upgrades)

A dated reading of what is claimed, reported, and independently verified in the current evidence.

As of
2026-08-20
Revision
1
Method
v1.3.0

Current reading

Readiness band and full integer triple

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Readiness band

Mature

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
70% · stale
Computed at
2026-08-20T10:52:37.146715+00:00
Claimed
90

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
83

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
75

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+15

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Strong

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20

Low-friction candidate

Why
Cross-vendor (Chrome 136/142 and Safari 18) shipped feature with a no-UI silent path and documented adoption uplift; the main cost is a bounded, well-documented server-side change to ignore UP/UV flags.
Next
Call navigator.credentials.create() with mediation:'conditional' immediately after a successful password login; abort any pending conditional get first, and silently swallow InvalidStateError/NotAllowedError/AbortError.

Constraints

Blockers

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
13
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
4
Tier 3
9
Supports
5
Contradicts
4
Context
4
Latest observed
2026-01-15

Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.

Publication record

Revisions

Initial public reading

  1. 2026-07-19 Reading moved from mature to mature.

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