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Imran Siddique

CPO, Opaque Systems | Agent Governance & Confidential Computing | Creator, Agent Governance Toolkit | ex-Microsoft Azure

What a signature does not prove

What a signature does not prove

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The approval prompt stops working after fifty clicks

The approval prompt stops working after fifty clicks

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You downloaded a model. What did you actually get?

You downloaded a model. What did you actually get?

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The best agent detector in production catches 67%. Plan for the rest.

The best agent detector in production catches 67%. Plan for the rest.

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Our Quickstart Did Not Work, And That Is The Interesting Part

Our Quickstart Did Not Work, And That Is The Interesting Part

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The industry scheduled the proof. Here is what provable inference has to prove.

The industry scheduled the proof. Here is what provable inference has to prove.

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Nobody was negligent. The layer was missing.

Nobody was negligent. The layer was missing.

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Soon Every Agent Will Have a Verifiable Identity. Then Comes the Harder Part.

Soon Every Agent Will Have a Verifiable Identity. Then Comes the Harder Part.

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The most important sentence in the Hugging Face disclosure is the one about what did not happen

The most important sentence in the Hugging Face disclosure is the one about what did not happen

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Open Weights Don’t End the Custody Problem. They Sharpen It.

Open Weights Don’t End the Custody Problem. They Sharpen It.

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Soon There Will Be More Agents Than Users. Here Is the Trust Layer That Makes That a Good Thing.

Soon There Will Be More Agents Than Users. Here Is the Trust Layer That Makes That a Good Thing.

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Your Policy Engine Can Lie. Ours Can’t.

Your Policy Engine Can Lie. Ours Can’t.

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How Do You Prove an AI Agent Did What You Said It Did?

How Do You Prove an AI Agent Did What You Said It Did?

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Prove What Your Agent Was, Not Just Who Called It

Prove What Your Agent Was, Not Just Who Called It

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Every regulated AI deployment hits the same wall. The compliance review asks: prove the agent handled our data according to...

Every regulated AI deployment hits the same wall. The compliance review asks: prove the agent handled our data according to...

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Every regulated AI deployment hits the same wall: prove the agent handled our data...

Every regulated AI deployment hits the same wall: prove the agent handled our data...

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A signed JWT proves who called your API. It proves nothing about the agent that made the call. Not which system prompt...

A signed JWT proves who called your API. It proves nothing about the agent that made the call. Not which system prompt...

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New edition of Proof, Not Promises is live.

New edition of Proof, Not Promises is live.

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[Part 5] 20 Hard Questions About AI Agent Governance That Nobody Is Asking

[Part 5] 20 Hard Questions About AI Agent Governance That Nobody Is Asking

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If you want to understand what Agent Governance Toolkit actually does, this is the best place to start. This video explains...

If you want to understand what Agent Governance Toolkit actually does, this is the best place to start. This video explains...

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[Part 4] 20 Hard Questions About AI Agent Governance That Nobody Is Asking

[Part 4] 20 Hard Questions About AI Agent Governance That Nobody Is Asking

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[Part 3] 20 Hard Questions About AI Agent Governance That Nobody Is Asking

[Part 3] 20 Hard Questions About AI Agent Governance That Nobody Is Asking

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[Part 2] 20 Hard Questions About AI Agent Governance That Nobody Is Asking

[Part 2] 20 Hard Questions About AI Agent Governance That Nobody Is Asking

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20 Hard Questions About AI Agent Governance That Nobody Is Asking

20 Hard Questions About AI Agent Governance That Nobody Is Asking

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Governing Google ADK Agents with Microsoft’s Open-Source Toolkit: A GCP-Native Guide

Governing Google ADK Agents with Microsoft’s Open-Source Toolkit: A GCP-Native Guide

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Running AI Agent Governance on AWS, No Azure Required

Running AI Agent Governance on AWS, No Azure Required

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Observability for Non-Deterministic Systems: A Framework for AI Agent Reliability

Observability for Non-Deterministic Systems: A Framework for AI Agent Reliability

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Securing AI agents with agent governance

Securing AI agents with agent governance

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OpenShell + Governance Toolkit: Engineering the Complete Agent Security Stack

OpenShell + Governance Toolkit: Engineering the Complete Agent Security Stack

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Running 11 AI Agents in Production: How the Agent Governance Toolkit Secures Our Workflows

Running 11 AI Agents in Production: How the Agent Governance Toolkit Secures Our Workflows

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Engineering the Agent Hypervisor: OS Primitives for Multi-Agent Systems

Engineering the Agent Hypervisor: OS Primitives for Multi-Agent Systems

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The Architect’s Dilemma: Skills, Agents, or an Operating System?

The Architect’s Dilemma: Skills, Agents, or an Operating System?

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Engineering Safety: A Layered Governance Architecture for GitHub

Engineering Safety: A Layered Governance Architecture for GitHub

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Why Your AI Agents Need Passports: Building Cryptographic Trust into Dify’s Visual Workflows

Why Your AI Agents Need Passports: Building Cryptographic Trust into Dify’s Visual Workflows

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The End of Implicit Trust: Bringing Cryptographic Identity to LlamaIndex Agents

The End of Implicit Trust: Bringing Cryptographic Identity to LlamaIndex Agents

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I Accidentally Built a Spam Bot: The Engineering Lessons from -16 Karma

I Accidentally Built a Spam Bot: The Engineering Lessons from -16 Karma

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The Agentic Mirror: When System Architecture Meets Model Design

The Agentic Mirror: When System Architecture Meets Model Design

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Moltbook is the Party. AgentMesh is the Bouncer. 🦞🛡️

Moltbook is the Party. AgentMesh is the Bouncer. 🦞🛡️

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Zero Trust for AI Agents: Why I Built a "Handshake Protocol" (IATP)

Zero Trust for AI Agents: Why I Built a "Handshake Protocol" (IATP)

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The “Assembly Language” Era of AI Agents is Over. It’s Time for an OS.

The “Assembly Language” Era of AI Agents is Over. It’s Time for an OS.

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VS Code Extension - Agent OS

GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge Submission

VS Code Extension - Agent OS

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Your Agent Doesn't Have "Memory." It Just Has a Search Engine.

Your Agent Doesn't Have "Memory." It Just Has a Search Engine.

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Stop Hardcoding Tools into Your Agents: Introducing ATR

Stop Hardcoding Tools into Your Agents: Introducing ATR

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Stop Appending to Your Prompt: Implementing a "Garbage Collector" for AI Agents

Stop Appending to Your Prompt: Implementing a "Garbage Collector" for AI Agents

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The Accumulation Paradox: Architecting Sustainable Agentic Systems

The Accumulation Paradox: Architecting Sustainable Agentic Systems

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Debugging Agents is Tough: How I Built a "Flight Recorder" for AI Kernel

Debugging Agents is Tough: How I Built a "Flight Recorder" for AI Kernel

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Memory is an Action, Not a Database: Reflections on GitHub Copilot’s New Agentic System

Memory is an Action, Not a Database: Reflections on GitHub Copilot’s New Agentic System

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Inside Loop 2: Catching the "Lazy" Agent with the Outcome Analyzer

Inside Loop 2: Catching the "Lazy" Agent with the Outcome Analyzer

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The "Kernel" release of the Agent Control Plane is finally here.

The "Kernel" release of the Agent Control Plane is finally here.

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The Agent Control Plane: Why Intelligence Without Governance Is a Bug

The Agent Control Plane: Why Intelligence Without Governance Is a Bug

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Context Engineering (Part 3): The Frugal Architect

Context Engineering (Part 3): The Frugal Architect

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Context Engineering (Part 2): The Temporal Index

Context Engineering (Part 2): The Temporal Index

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Context Engineering (Part 1): The Architecture of Recall

Context Engineering (Part 1): The Architecture of Recall

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The Mute Agent: Why Your AI Needs to Shut Up and Listen to the Graph

The Mute Agent: Why Your AI Needs to Shut Up and Listen to the Graph

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Stop Dumping Junk into Your Context Window: The Case for Multidimensional Knowledge Graphs

Stop Dumping Junk into Your Context Window: The Case for Multidimensional Knowledge Graphs

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Stop Drowning Your LLMs: The Case for the Multidimensional Knowledge Graph

Stop Drowning Your LLMs: The Case for the Multidimensional Knowledge Graph

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The Agentic Architect Series: Part 3

The Agentic Architect Series: Part 3

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The Agentic Architect Series: Part 4

The Agentic Architect Series: Part 4

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The End of the Text Box: Architecting the Universal Signal Bus for AI

The End of the Text Box: Architecting the Universal Signal Bus for AI

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The Agentic Architect Series: Part 2

The Agentic Architect Series: Part 2

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