Series

Thematic reading paths across papers and essays.

Agent Statecraft

Directing AI agents as a practiced discipline. Scoping work, enforcing invariants, and building the judgment to know when to intervene.

• The Agency Paradox v2.3: Governed Autonomy as Infrastructure— current version (July 2026)
• The Agency Paradox v1.0— founding manifesto (December 2025)
• The Stochastic Gap— why probabilistic systems require deterministic boundaries
• Propose, Don't Decide— the reducer pattern as a model for human-AI authority
• The Automation Paradox— why more capable agents need more governance, not less
• Trust as Architecture— why trust is a system property, not a prompt attribute

Agent Oversight

The governance layer beneath every governed agent. Budgets, sandboxes, jurisdictions, and the Laws that agents cannot override.

• Law at the Edge— new foundation paper (anchors the series)
• SwiftVector: The Reference Kernel— why the reference implementation is built in Swift
• The Conformance Contract— how JSON fixtures prove enforcement equivalence across kernels
• Budgets, Not Permissions— why Law 4's resource model changes how agents degrade
• Jurisdiction Design— how to compose Laws for a new domain
• Audit as Architecture— event-sourced governance and the replay guarantee

Agent Ops

Observability for the agentic stack. Event instrumentation, governance dashboards, and the DevOps discipline for autonomous systems.

• Bringing Law to the Frontier— new foundation paper (anchors the series)
• Why the FAA Can't Certify a Language Model— deterministic boundaries for certifiable drone operations
• The Pilot Who Never Blinks— governing autonomy in safety-critical flight systems
• Desktop Agents and the Sidecar Problem— how Vigil enforces governance over tools
• Your Jurisdiction— a guide to building governance for your domain