The articles

Four longer pieces, each built around at least one number nobody else publishes. They are the arguments the concept pages are too short to make.

1. Article 1What an autonomous run actually costs

   Nobody publishes the bill. This is the whole of one, across every run in the corpus, with the money that bought nothing left in.

2. Article 2Never believe the agent

   Verification has to be a separate program with real exit codes. The argument for that is not in the gates that passed. It is in the ones that did not, and in the few that never ran at all.

3. Article 3The nudge that sat below the median

   Every autonomous run puts a ceiling on what one session may spend, and almost every ceiling was picked by feel. The ledger can settle it. The awkward part is that the number you most need is the one a ceiling deletes.

4. Article 4The ledger that lied

   An autonomous run keeps a record of itself, and that record is what every later decision gets made from. This corpus holds a population of sessions whose record is empty in four places and full in the fifth. The shape of the hole turned out to be a code path, and the number it produced was the reassuring one.