Engineering principle 001
Build with clear boundaries.
Governance state and runtime execution require explicit ownership.
AIGP / Engineering Journal
Engineering systems worthy of trust.
Field notes on AI governance, distributed systems, protocols, and the decisions behind reliable systems.
11 essays/Architecture · Governance · Engineering · Protocols
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Featured essay / Governance
Permission vs Authority
An agent can be authenticated and permitted by an API—and still take an action it was never authorized to decide.
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Engineering
The incident report is not evidence
Why operational logs cannot replace decision evidence.
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Protocols
Stateless MCP did not require a control-plane rewrite
Transport compatibility without changing governance ownership.
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Engineering
AI agent skills are not system knowledge
Reusable skills teach workflows; repository instructions carry the context that makes a system safe to change.
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Architecture
Lineage is not analytics
A graph should make governed relationships inspectable, not pretend to be an operational dashboard.
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Architecture
Why dataset metadata belongs in the control plane—and dataset bytes do not
A governed registry record and an artifact store have distinct jobs.
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Architecture
Observed is not managed: the ownership model AI registries miss
Runtime evidence is valuable without turning the platform into an upstream authoring system.
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Architecture
A governed asset plane for AI systems: catalog first, MLOps later
A versioned asset plane establishes ownership, immutable artifacts, and inspectable lineage.
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Governance
Replay is not retry: one word that changes the integrity of the evidence
A replay must reproduce and defend a historical decision; a retry only asks whether work finished.
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Architecture
The hard scaling problem in AI is deciding what to remember
Reliable systems need a boundary between search projections and authoritative evidence.
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Protocols
MCPO vs Streamable HTTP: choosing the right interface for AIGP
MCP transports and REST adapters serve different integration needs.
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Engineering principles
How we build
Principles behind the control plane, kept distinct from the editorial archive.
Engineering principle 002
Protocols are interfaces.
The right transport depends on who—or what—needs to consume the capability.