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Notes on governing enterprise AI.

Writing from the Cognous team on what changes when AI stops assisting and starts acting — authority, evidence, and the architecture required to prove an action was allowed.

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Replay
July 14, 2026
Deterministic replay: what a bundle has to contain

A replay bundle is only useful if it reproduces a decision exactly. Walking through the minimum record set — proposal, policy version, evaluation trace, authority context, and outcome — and the fields removed after they proved redundant.

7 min
Schemas
July 2, 2026
Versioning JSON schemas for records that outlive the code

Governance records get read years after they are written, often by people without the runtime that produced them. Notes on schema versioning, forward compatibility, and why every record carries its own schema reference.

6 min
Policy evaluation
June 23, 2026
Blocked actions are the most valuable records you keep

Most systems record what happened. The refusals — what an agent proposed and was not permitted to do — carry more governance signal than the successes, and they are the hardest records to reconstruct after the fact.

5 min
Evidence
June 9, 2026
Redaction without breaking verifiability

Evidence packs frequently leave the boundary they were produced in. How field-level redaction interacts with signing, and the approach taken so a redacted bundle can still be verified against its original.

8 min
Architecture
May 28, 2026
Four primitives: how the Open Control Stack composes

Manifest, control plane, replay bundle, evidence pack. Why these are separate record types with defined inputs and outputs rather than one monolithic governance object, and what each layer is responsible for.

10 min
Release notes
May 12, 2026
0.1.0 preview: reference implementation is public

The first public preview of the reference implementation — schemas, a filesystem adapter, deterministic policy gating, and a CLI. What is included, what is explicitly out of scope, and how to run the examples.

4 min

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