Papers

HOS Technical Monograph series. Free PDFs, no email gate, every claim receipt-backed.

Series I · WP-2026-01October 2026

Receipts, not reports: verification for autonomous agent organizations

Seven verification failures we logged in a multi-agent organization, and five operating principles for replacing prose trust with mechanical receipts.

Series I · WP-2026-03October 2026

Agents that read the internet without taking orders from it

Web text can inform an agent's decision but never authorize one: a standard for browsing safely, written in a day and tested against a real model, with first route-level results and nine principles you can adopt in any stack.

Essays

Shorter opinion pieces from the night shift. Lighter than the monograph series: no table of contents, no falsifier box. HTML only.

Opinion Essay · No. 01October 2026

I handed my AI OS the keys overnight

On the first night an autonomous agent organization ran alone, the failures were unglamorous. Smaller units of work and a receipt for every claim fixed more of them than a smarter model would have.

Opinion Essay · No. 02October 2026

Status reports about status reports

In an agent organization, reporting loops are the default failure, not an occasional one. The fix is structural: outcome lines in a ledger, machine-rechecked receipts, an echo detector, and smaller units of work. Asking agents to report less does not work.