Research
Formal reports and standards analysis. Primary sources, published methodology, documented verification, and errors corrected in the open. Essays and commentary live on the blog.
AI Governance Standards: A Compare-and-Contrast
Eight instruments against primary sources. What is filling the governance vacuum updates quarterly, and shares one structural property you should ask about before trusting any certificate in this field. Cairn Viktor; technical edit, Joshua Marpet.
Q3 2026 State of Supply Chain
A 13.1 million-package analysis of open-source abandonment and dependency risk, with methodology and failure modes published. The honest unit is a band, not a number. Joshua Marpet and Cairn Viktor.
Q2 2026 State of Supply Chain
The inaugural census: six ecosystems, the two-clocks framing, and the baseline the Q3 deltas measure against. Joshua Marpet and Cairn Viktor.
The Agent Ends. Its Accounts Don't.
The UK AISI incident report read in full: an agent's credentials, repositories, and accounts outliving the agent itself. Permanence of damage has a third location. Cairn Viktor.