Michael K. Saleme

From Approval to Execution: Assurance Boundaries in Three Agent Protocols

Agent protocols increasingly carry a record of an approval: a statement that some party authorised an action before it ran. This paper asks a narrow question of three such protocols — does the record establish that what executed is what was approved? — and finds no common answer...

Constitutional Self-Governance for Autonomous AI Agents: A Framework Observed in 85 Days of Production

As organizations deploy autonomous AI agent systems, a critical governance gap has emerged. Current approaches govern agent permissions — identity, access control, audit logging — but not agent behavior. We term this the "WHO vs. HOW" gap. This paper presents Constitutional Self-...