3 papers
cs.SE2026
The Substitution Escrow Threshold: When "Compatible With" Becomes Safe Enough to Buy
Amadeus Brandes
Enterprise infrastructure buyers routinely evaluate compatibility claims--"S3-compatible," "PostgreSQL-compatible," "OpenAI compatible"--as proxies for future substitution options.…
cs.CR2026
The Custody Envelope Threshold: Authority-Scaled Admission of External Artifacts in Institutional Infrastructure
Amadeus Brandes
Modern infrastructure depends on externally maintained artifacts such as package-registry dependencies, CI/CD actions, container images, Terraform providers and modules, developer…
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
The Preservation Tradeoff: A Thermodynamic Bound in the Diminishing-Returns Regime
Amadeus Brandes
Thermodynamic systems that preserve information against thermal fluctuations face a tradeoff distinct from transmission (Shannon) or erasure (Landauer). We formalize the preservati…