18 papers
A Five-Plane Reference Architecture for Runtime Governance of Production AI Agents
Krti Tallam
Enterprise security was built to govern data boundaries: the protected surface was data at rest and in transit, and the controls -- access control, data-loss prevention, perimeter…
Consciousness as Uncommon Self-Knowledge: A Synergistic Information Framework
Krti Tallam
We propose uncommon self-knowledge (USK) as a candidate criterion for consciousness: synergistic information a system carries about itself that exists only in the joint of its subs…
Layered Mutability: Continuity and Governance in Persistent Self-Modifying Agents
Krti Tallam
Persistent language-model agents increasingly combine tool use, tiered memory, reflective prompting, and runtime adaptation. In such systems, behavior is shaped not only by current…
Execution Envelopes: A Shared Admission Contract for Backend AI Execution Requests
Krti Tallam
Enterprise AI backends increasingly admit heterogeneous execution requests across model deployment, inference, evaluation, data movement, and agentic workflows. In many systems, th…
The Khipu Problem: Institutional Legibility Under Distributed Cognition
Krti Tallam
AI governance still tends to assume that the relevant object is a bounded model or a bounded agent. That assumption is getting weaker. Real systems increasingly distribute cognitio…
Authorization Propagation in Multi-Agent AI Systems: Identity Governance as Infrastructure
Krti Tallam
The security discussion around agentic AI focuses heavily on prompt injection. This paper argues that multi-agent systems also create a distinct authorization problem: maintaining…