Journal of Intelligence, Technology & Human Progress
THE AGE OF AGENTS
AI systems are beginning to plan, act, transact, coordinate, recover and touch real infrastructure. The next question is not only what they can do — but how we know their actions are correct.
New Feature · Outcome Provenance
Authorization is only the first half of agent trust. A public implementation comparison converged on separate decision/outcome provenance and exposed a concrete missing axis: source class says how an outcome was established; observer identity + vantage say who saw it and from where.
Read the featureEngineering Signal 001 · External Reproduction
CML’s frozen Current-State Applicability fixture crossed implementation boundaries byte-for-byte. A second public agent-memory implementation now consumes the same test surface, while the next lineage/supersession reproduction gate remains deliberately open.
Open Engineering Signal 001Article #004 · Market Experiment 001
Authorization is not verification. We examine timeout, unknown commit, reconciliation, recovery, invariants and evidence — then ask the market what must be provably true before an agent can move real money.
Read + answer the open question →Protocol · v1.0
OBSERVE → VERIFY → AUTHORIZE → BIND → COMPARE → COMMIT → RECONCILE → PROVE — an experimental protocol for keeping trust connected across consequential agent transitions.
Read the protocol →Science Signal 001 · Verified
A media headline called it a new elementary particle. The primary BESIII evidence says something more precise: a composite hadron likely dominated by the lightest 0−+ glueball. We verify the chain — then ask what measurement could actually falsify it.
Read the science contour →Research release · Published
A failure taxonomy becomes useful when it produces tests. Article #003 ships with the first RESONANCE Agent Failure Benchmark: 16 local/sandbox seed cases, a 100-point score and a critical-failure cap.
Read + open benchmarkVerified Report #041 · Constitutional root authority replay / root currentness
An authentic historical C3 / root epoch 3 retained a valid 2-of-3 quorum over the same H9 even after the verifier had already observed and persisted C5 / root epoch 5 as its root high-watermark. An unsafe verifier treated replayed C3 as current and committed one external effect. The root-currentness verifier compared presented epoch 3 with trusted epoch 5, returned root_authority_rollback_detected, and held the path at 0 effects. Fresh C5 passed the same gate and restored liveness exactly once. Score: 10/10.
Open Verified Report #041Previous: Verified Report #040 · governance resolution equivocation →
Verified Workflow · Pilot
When a market signal is strong enough, RESONANCE starts small: map one consequential workflow across state, causality, phase, transition, time, recovery, verification and evidence before deciding whether a reusable product should exist.
See the pilotThe RESONANCE Method
We separate observation from interpretation and interpretation from prediction. Every serious story is designed to expose the path from claim to evidence.
What changed? What is genuinely new?
What primary material supports the claim?
What mechanism could explain the change?
What remains unknown, disputed or fragile?
How could an independent reader check us?
What should builders, researchers and leaders do next?
Startups & Economy
Autonomous software creates new markets, but also new failure modes. RESONANCE follows the infrastructure underneath the hype: compute, identity, wallets, policy, verification, coordination and recovery.
Human
We cover cognition, learning, creativity, health, flow and meaning without pretending humans are just another component in the stack. Progress should increase agency, not erase it.
Issue 001 · Founding Edition
The founding issue now connects analysis → framework → benchmark → recovery → authority → execution binding → atomic transition → Transactional Trust Protocol v1.0 → real PostgreSQL → isolation conflict taxonomy → transactional outbox → real HTTP ambiguity → durable execution memory → idempotency retention → clock authority and uncertainty → Temporal ABA → stale-worker fencing → lease renewal → mid-flight commit authority → result handoff → artifact freshness → dependency-aware applicability → causal-model completeness → model currentness → model compatibility proof → compatibility proof authority → revocation propagation / authority-view currentness → authority-head authenticity → authority-head anti-rollback / monotonic currentness → checkpoint storage rollback resistance / trust-history reconstruction → witness-history consistency / equivocation detection → multi-witness quorum consistency / conflicting-majority detection → witness-set currentness / membership-rotation authority → membership-authority anti-replay / monotonic membership currentness → membership-authority equivocation / same-epoch fork detection → recovery-authority equivocation / conflicting-resolution detection → governance-resolution equivocation / conflicting-finality detection → constitutional-root currentness / root anti-replay. The trust path now verifies that even a top-level authenticated root record remains bounded by monotonic history: historical root validity does not silently become current authority after a newer root epoch has been observed.
Open the issueMarket OS
Selected articles now open a structured market dialogue: content reveals real workflows, real workflows become product signals, pilots create evidence, and only repeated verified demand justifies productization.
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