Tag: topology

5 posts

Six Shapes of Conversation (A Framework To Break)

Conversations have shapes.

Mar 24, 2026

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