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Ranex vs. GitHub Rulesets and Copilot Hooks: What’s Actually Different
GitHub rulesets, editor hooks, and CI gate channels. Ranex asks a separate question: what must the evidence prove?
Governing Agent Labor
Why bounding an AI agent's authority matters more as models get better, not less.
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Governing Agent Labor
A Report Is Not the Artifact
A session report describes a run. Re-run the command against the artifact on disk before you let that description decide anything.
Governing Agent Labor
No Self-Approval: The One Rule That Survives Perfect AI
Stop an agent from approving evidence it produced. The separation-of-duties rule that still matters when models improve.
Governing Agent Labor
Measure Before Learning: Stop Calling One Run a Win
A single run cannot prove a change helped. Freeze the comparison, set the rules first, and keep observations separate from grades.
Governing Agent Labor
Hashing Dependencies Does Not Make Them Honest
A SHA-256 hash identifies approved dependency bytes. It cannot prove that imported code will report your test result honestly.
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If You Never Fetched It, You Never Researched It
A citation can be fabricated from memory. Fetch and record the source bytes before you let a design claim borrow their authority.
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Why AI-Built Software Needs an Accountability Apparatus
Better models don’t remove the need to bound an agent’s authority: they increase it. The case for treating AI as delegated labour that needs an accountability apparatus outside itself.