More Than a Model: A Memory Architecture for an AI Coding Agent

The first file my coding agent reads, every session, is a markdown file called CLAUDE.md. It is not configuration. It is not a prompt. It is the working-memory layer of…

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The Forgotten Layer: Memory Is the AI Variable Most Teams Are Missing

In 2023 a research paper called Lost in the Middle showed large language models lose accuracy as relevant information moves toward the middle of their context window. Two years on,…

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AI Supply Chain Security Is a Provenance Problem, Not a Vetting Problem

In May last year, someone opened a public GitHub repository and filed an issue. The issue contained instructions written for the AI assistant the repository's owner had connected to their…

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Your AI Knows What It Did. Not What It Decided.

Your AI system is running well. The guardrails are structural, not prompt-based. The escalation paths have owners. The policies are written down and versioned. You have done the work. Now…

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The Disciplines AI Governance Forgot

Mythos did something unusual when it launched. It hard-coded which AI model could be used for which task category inside its platform. Customer-facing responses could only use smaller, lower-risk models.…

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From Human Supervision to Policy Governance

Supervision has latency. A human watching an AI system needs time to observe what happened, recognise that something is wrong, decide what to do and then act. That sequence takes…

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Your Regulator Won’t Tell You What to Build. That’s the Problem.

The FCA has made its position on AI clear: no new rules. Existing frameworks apply. Consumer Duty. SM&CR. Operational resilience. Work it out. This is being reported as the regulator…

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If Your AI Guardrails Live in the Prompt, They Aren’t Guardrails

When OpenClaw's security audit found over 500 vulnerabilities, the most serious category wasn't a flaw in the code. It was prompt injection. Prompt injection is what happens when an AI…

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Adding Controls To AI Isn’t Governance

Most organisations discover they have a governance problem the same way. Something goes wrong. An automated workflow sends the wrong response to the wrong customer. An AI agent escalates an…

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When AI Stops Being a Tool

There is a project on GitHub called OpenClaw. It appeared in November last year. By March it had more stars than any open-source project in history. It connects to your…

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