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Kevin Knapp

MYTHOLOGIQ LABS, LLC// GOVERNANCE OPERATOR
operator   Kevin Knapp
role       Agent Governance Architect
focus      deterministic policy · zero-trust identity · verifiable audit
building   FailSafe · FailSafe Pro · agent-governance-toolkit (maintainer)
doctrine   deny by default · provenance over phrasing · every decision leaves a trail

Governance by prompt isn't real governance.

It can only be enforced reliably by deterministic code, not by instructions a model is free to ignore.

THE WORK

I build the security layer for autonomous AI agents: deterministic policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution isolation, and a tamper-evident record of everything an agent does. The goal is easy to state and hard to engineer. Let agents act on their own, inside boundaries they cannot quietly cross, with a trail you can verify after the fact.

DOCTRINE

Deny by default. Trust is earned per action, not granted per session.
Provenance over phrasing. A decision turns on where an instruction came from, not how it is worded.
Every decision leaves a verifiable trail. Audit is structural, not optional.
Governance adapts to the system, not the reverse.
Autonomy without accountability is just unmonitored risk.

CAPABILITIES

_{deterministic verdicts · ALLOW / DENY / AUDIT / BLOCK}	_{Ed25519 · SPIFFE · DID · trust scoring}	_{privilege rings · kill switch · sandboxing}
_{SLOs · error budgets · circuit breakers}	_{Qor-Logic · S.H.I.E.L.D. lifecycle · L1/L2/L3}	_{Merkle / HMAC hash-chains · verifiable}

SELECTED WORK

Project	Stack	What it is
agent-governance-toolkit		Microsoft's open governance toolkit for autonomous agents. Maintainer / contributor.
FailSafe		MythologIQ's deterministic governance layer. Shadow Genome, gated SDLC, verifiable ledger.
Qor-Logic		A gated prompt framework for AI agents. Started in SDLC, expanding to broader governance.
bicameral-mcp		Agent-facing Bicameral MCP tools: ingest, preflight, binding, and review.
bicameral-bot		Local-first Bicameral daemon, gateway, protocol, review UX, and local code grounding.
bicameral-integrations		Open-source Bicameral adapters emitting candidates, evidence, and advisory signals.
bicameral-cloud		Hosted Bicameral cloud: code graph, conflict oracle, and grounding optimization.