Articles
Research articles and essays on autonomous systems and governance.
Public, Chained, Provable — DGV Goes Live
A real Hetzner host, real DNS and OIDC, the T0/T1 revocation and delegation-cascade proofs re-run externally, plus hash-chained offline-verifiable receipts and SLSA provenance
The previous update's honest non-claim — 'nothing is publicly deployed' — no longer holds. dgv-gate now runs on a real host behind real TLS, DNS, and a real Google OIDC issuer. The...
PrimeSwarm vs Blue
A different layer, not a competitor — and a small, well-built project whose source turned up a real gap in our own evidence verification
Blue governs which coding-agent CLI a developer is allowed to launch and how it's configured. PrimeSwarm governs what a running agent is allowed to do, and re-checks at the moment ...
The Gate Is a Running Service Now — DGV v0.4.0
Verified identity, signed policies, fail-closed partitions, and signed revocation gossip — measured, not asserted
dgv-gate is now a live enforcement service: T₀/T₁ authority re-checks, JWT/OIDC identity, Ed25519-signed versioned policies, verified human approvals, fail-closed partition handlin...
Sealed, Delegated, Deployable — DGV After v0.4.0
Encrypted agent-to-agent transport, tokens that can only narrow, and a deployment posture check that passed on real Postgres + RS256
dgv-sealed-v1 encrypts A2A payloads end-to-end through a zero-knowledge relay (X25519 ECDH + AEAD, payload hash binding the authorized ciphertext). dgv-delegate-v1 lets a token's g...
The AI Did It. Who Allowed It?
A plain-language answer for the people who run the business — what ungoverned AI costs, what a gate is, and what we built
When the AI writes the record, sends the email, or spends the money — who allowed it? At most companies the honest answer is nobody knows. This page explains, without jargon, what ...
How DGV-TC-069 Works — and Why It Matters for Regulated AI
The test that catches what audits miss: negative correctness in governance gates
DGV-TC-069 tests negative correctness — the gate must DENY a proposal that violates constraints, even when it looks superficially valid. Most governance systems fail this test beca...
ONLY Lang for Compliance Officers
A governance DSL, not a programming language — inspectable, testable, replayable
ONLY Lang is a domain-specific language for declaring governance constraints. Compliance officers can read it, approve it, and replay it. It is not a PDF policy — it is a script th...
Why Deterministic Receipts Matter to Auditors
The difference between a log and a receipt — and why auditors need the latter
Logs say 'this happened.' Receipts say 'this happened, here is the proof, and here is how you can verify it.' PrimeSwarm produces SHA-256 receipts for every governance decision. Au...
PIR Evolver Deep Dive: From Thue-Morse to Trading Signals
A technical walkthrough of the engine that powers SignalO
How does a sequence discovered in 1850 detect market regime shifts in 2026? We walk through the PIR Evolver Engine code, step by step — from raw price data to regime classification...
Quilt Explained: Cellular Automata as a Substrate for Safe AGI
Why the simplest model of computation might be the safest
Cellular automata are grids of cells that follow simple local rules and produce complex global behavior. Quilt takes this substrate and asks: can we govern the evolution? The Quilt...
From Moscow to Melbourne: A 41-Year Journey to Only Institute
How childhood graphics for my father's papers became a research laboratory
I was drawing graphics for my father's scientific papers before I could read the equations. Forty-one years later, those early mornings in Moscow and the journey to Australia have ...
TPNN: Why Topological Constraints Block Prompt Injection
A technical deep-dive into how the Topological Prime Neural Network (TPNN) uses spatial constraints to make prompt injection attacks mathematically incapable of forming valid outpu...
Prime Integer Relations for Market Regime Detection
How we use Prime Integer Relations (PIR) to detect market regimes and build a momentum rebalancer for the top 16 crypto assets with risk-adjusted position sizing....