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Book / September 2026 · Textbook Edition 4.0

Governing AI Agents: The Harbor, the Person, and the Economy

A textbook on concurrency, identity, and accountable autonomous work, from one machine to institutions shared across independent systems.

Eight chapters follow authority, evidence, and consequence through concurrent work, delegated permissions, identity, supervision, and cooperation across independent systems. The text separates its assumptions, proposed mechanisms, and evidence.

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Erich Owens · Curiositech · Port Daddy

Essays / engineering / field notes

One question.
Several good directions.

Two colorful work tracks meet at a single cream document beneath a clear access gate

01 / Port Daddy / Manifesto

The Port Daddy Manifesto

What two agents racing for one file can teach us about ownership, institutions, and the rules cooperation needs.

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Successively smaller sculptural gates narrow a token’s path through a clear permission boundary

02 / Port Daddy / Essay

The Macaroon Gate

Why a prompt cannot enforce a permission boundary, and how delegated authority can shrink without growing back.

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A tactile four-part control instrument connects ownership, resource limits, receipts and a recovery loop

03 / Port Daddy / Essay

The Control Plane Is the Product

Ownership, cost, evidence, and recovery belong in the interface for agent work. Here is the engineering argument.

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A guided conversation draws a branching conditional decision sculpture out beyond a stack of closed books

04 / WinDAGs / Field notes

The Reasoning Books Don’t Have

How to draw out the conditional judgment experts carry, and make it useful to a person or an agent.

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A field of colorful candidates passes through successive sculptural filters until one specialist piece remains

05 / WinDAGs / Engineering

The Skill Matching Cascade

Inside a retrieval pipeline that moves from a task description to the specialist knowledge an agent needs.

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Two opposing inspection prisms exchange views and reveal a bright hidden facet of a shared artifact

06 / WinDAGs / Experiment

When Meta-Skills Collide

Two skill evaluators examine one another. Their disagreements reveal what self-review tends to miss.

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