Editorial Publication

The governance infrastructure for autonomous systems is not a future problem. It is a current gap.

VERIK is a Phase 1 editorial publication examining the structural gap between agentic AI deployment and the artifacts that would prove authorized action. The publication ends in open questions, not prescriptions.

Archive · 16 pieces

09 JUN 2026
Five Categories

The Panel That Was Named

The Article 68 Scientific Panel closes the institutional gap on model evaluation. The substrate beneath the model is the next gap.

09 JUN 2026
Operating in the Fog

The Bill of Materials That Was Promised

The G7 Cybersecurity Declaration commits to a SBOM for AI. The artifact is the easy part. Whether it carries the function is the open question.

09 JUN 2026
Five Categories

Sovereignty as a Regulatory Category

The Cloud and AI Development Act instantiates sovereignty as a formal regulatory category. The anchors are at infrastructure. The substrate beneath is not yet anchored.

09 JUN 2026
Mythos Asymmetry

The Substrate That Was Named

The Estonian Aruait project names the audit-identity-orchestration substrate that the institutional record has been pointing toward without committing to.

21 MAY 2026
Drones

The Meltdown Corollary

A May 18 arXiv preprint puts a measurement on a failure mode the targeting-loop conversation has been circling since Minab. The drones arc, refracted through Agent Meltdowns.

21 MAY 2026
Operating in the Fog

The Monitor Layer in the Fog

LTL runtime monitors and the missing instrumentation layer the Aegis Terra paper assumed but did not build.

21 MAY 2026
Agent Identity

The Revocation Horizon

Heartbeat-bound hierarchical credentials and the cryptographic bound the agent identity arc has been waiting for.

16 MAY 2026
Mythos Asymmetry

The Asymmetry the Advisory Does Not Address

Capability access is now a regulatory variable. Anthropic Mythos, the Glasswing program, and the structure of who gets what.

09 MAY 2026
Five Categories

Five Categories, No Enforcement Architecture

The April 30 Five Eyes advisory names five categories of agentic AI risk. None of them ship with an enforcement architecture.

25 APR 2026
Operating in the Fog

Operating in the Fog: What the Aegis Terra Paper Carries

A response to the March 2026 strategic assessment. The transport layer is the right reading; the provenance layer is the missing one.

21 APR 2026
Agent Identity

The Agent Identity Problem: Allow All Is a Product Decision

The Vercel breach and the autonomy threshold quote, read together. Allow All is the product surface, not a configuration error.

19 APR 2026
Drones

The Verification Gap at Machine Speed

A response to the April 11 MacGregor / Modigliani DTAcq event. The market financed autonomous targeting before it financed proof.

17 APR 2026
Foundations

The Governance Infrastructure We Forgot to Build

A cross-sector look at why audit logs are not governance, and why proof-of-authorized-action is now infrastructure.

17 APR 2026
Foundations

When Audit Logs Become the Surveillance Layer

The April 10 Interim Measures from five Chinese ministries reveal what governance looks like when the verification layer and the collection layer are the same entity.

17 APR 2026
Drones

America's Drone Strategy Has a Governance Problem Too

The Pentagon wants 150,000 autonomous airframes. International humanitarian law assumes a human in the loop.

17 APR 2026
Foundations

FISA 702 and the AI Governance Gap

Reframing the surveillance debate around the governance gap for autonomous systems acting on collected data.