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The Assurance Stack

Ordered notes and essays grouped as a connected series.

The Missing Layer in Agentic Development: Precise Governance

Part 1 / May 18, 2026AI review provides judgment and CI/CD provides executable evidence. Precise governance determines which assurance is sufficient for a proposed consequence and what authority may follow.

Replayability Is a Governance Problem

Part 2 / May 18, 2026Replayability becomes an evidence problem when providers change, models mutate, routing shifts, retention windows expire, and metadata disappears.

Recursive Governance and Agent Workflows

Part 3 / May 18, 2026Recursive systems can expand execution depth, authority propagation, context contamination, replay ambiguity, and provenance collapse faster than traditional orchestration can govern.