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Readiness verdict

WebAuthn Immediate Mediation

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

Ready

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
70% · stale
Computed at
2026-08-20T10:52:37.370061+00:00
Claimed
85

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
80

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
70

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+15

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Growing

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20

Adopt with guardrails

Why
Now stable in Chrome with a clean silent-reject fallback and a clear UX win for returning users, but the OT->stable API rename and single-browser support mean it must be additive behind capability detection, never the only path.
Next
Feature-detect via PublicKeyCredential.getClientCapabilities().immediateGet and wire uiMode:'immediate' as a Chrome-only fast path with silent fallback to the existing password/conditional-UI flow.

Constraints

Blockers

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
11
Tier 1
0
Tier 2
2
Tier 3
9
Supports
8
Contradicts
3
Context
0
Latest observed
2026-06-01

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 ready to ready.

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