A Minimal Certification Schema for Moving Boundaries
A transformation may only proceed if its boundary, transport, control, population, merger, and recertification conditions each pass a threshold check.
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Artifact cards
Operational templates, audit questions, gates, and checklists intended for eval builders and safety engineers.
Adversarial Agency Tests
A family of perturbation tests — hidden stakes, oversight gradient, tool removal, memory perturbation — that make the adversarial boundary problem operational instead of just naming heuristics.
Deployment Gate
A practical checkpoint before a system receives a larger action envelope.
Detecting Composite Agents
A practical audit clusters traces across model calls, tools, memory, and incentives, then flags clusters with low boundary leakage, high control reach, and positive composite surplus over their parts.
Reference cards
Alphabetical index of 379 bibliography entries as site cards — each links to citing chapters and appendices.
Turchin Coverage Audit
A checklist that uses Alexey Turchin's AGI failure-mode map to check whether the book's framework silently ignores a whole family of failures, without adopting it as a second ontology.