topology

4 posts

Five Layers of Agent Governance

How do you govern something that reads its own rules?

Mar 4, 2026

Strongly Worded Letters: Why Text Policies Can't Secure AI Agents

Grace put it perfectly: "In 2026, a common security paradigm is writing a strongly worded letter to the guy in your computer."

Mar 3, 2026

The Channels Don't Talk: Why Text Safety Doesn't Transfer to Tool Safety

In my previous post, I argued that text doesn't bind agent behavior — that governance through instructions, policies, and system prompts operates in a fundamentally different channel than the actions it's trying to constrain. That was a theoretical argument. Now there's empirical evidence.

Mar 2, 2026

Text Doesn't Bind: Topology as Agent Governance

My groundbreaking contribution to AI governance is: text doesn't bind behavior.

Mar 1, 2026