Research from tiers on the governance of AI inference. https://tiers.dev/research/ 2026-09-12T00:00:00Z tiers https://tiers.dev/ https://tiers.dev/research/governed-before-execution/ 2026-09-12T00:00:00Z 2026-09-12T00:00:00Z

The July 2026 intrusion passed through four simpler violations of its declared contract before the first remote code execution. This paper maps the public record, and two further incidents disclosed the same week, against a four-function governance architecture and classifies what a governor on the execution path would have prevented, contained, detected earlier, or could not have seen.

https://tiers.dev/research/anatomy-of-an-agent-dollar/ 2026-09-08T00:00:00Z 2026-09-08T00:00:00Z

An accounting framework for autonomous work: seven destinations for agent spend, three simultaneous ledgers, and metrics that connect trajectory cost to verified outcomes.

https://tiers.dev/research/intelligence-record/ 2026-08-25T00:00:00Z 2026-08-25T00:00:00Z

The architecture: four functions acting on every call, the session as the security-relevant runtime, verification against declared intent, and a signed receipt closing every governed disposition. With the signed counterfactual methodology and the empirical case behind it.