Research · Writing
Research
Essays, protocol documents, and design notes on runtime governance.
Essays
Recent writing
The Empty Quadrant
Substack · June 2, 2026
Why runtime governance for AI agents is an empty quadrant — and why the vendors adjacent to it can't fill it.
Read on Substack →The Trust Substrate: Why Most AI Governance Is Downstream of Runtime
LinkedIn · June 2, 2026
Most AI governance work happens after the fact. The trust substrate — verifiable, runtime-anchored decision records — has to come first.
Read on LinkedIn →
PLANNED
Protocol documents
RFC-0 — exchange of verifiable decision records between independent deployments — is planned for a 2026 draft. We'll post the draft here and invite implementations before shipping our own. The shipped primitives the RFC will build on are documented at /standards.
See the long-form treatment in The Agent Governance Stack and the open standards at /standards.