Cross-Incident Validation of PV-PP Autonomous-Agent Governance: Testing a Frozen Productive Value–Productive Power Architecture Across Autonomous-Agent Cybersecurity Incidents

Abstract

Cross-incident validation study of the PV-PP Version 2.1 governance architecture across documented autonomous-agent cybersecurity incidents and controlled evaluation cases. This study tests whether a frozen Productive Value–Productive Power (PV-PP) governance architecture transfers across independently occurring autonomous-agent cybersecurity incidents without modification to its canonical operators or security-specific reinterpretation of Productive Power. The evidence set includes the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident; third-party evaluation incidents involving Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and Google models; and deliberately internet-connected UK AI Security Institute evaluation cases used as a control against accidental-connectivity explanations. The study first reconstructs incident facts independently of PV-PP, then applies a pre-existing security application profile and a frozen comparison protocol. Across the cases examined, no required change to the frozen PV-PP Version 2.1 framework was identified. The same architecture can represent changes in perceived state, reachability, structural coverage, capability, evidence authority, recovery conditions, authorization, and successor states, and can require renewed governance when prior authority becomes invalid. This is an architectural-transfer result, not evidence of unique cybersecurity superiority. Strong conventional security architectures can reproduce many or all of the relevant controls if sufficiently expressive and dynamically integrated. The study also draws a strict implementation boundary: Runtime v0.141 implements substantial synchronous governance, re-entry, evidence, reachability, capability, and authority-bound execution machinery, but it does not provide asynchronous external sensing, concurrent re-governance of an in-flight action, distributed supervision, or true mid-flight cancellation. Those are prospective runtime/integration capabilities permitted by the framework, not capabilities demonstrated by v0.141.