Topic hub
Institutions and Agency
How does an action become something an organization can authorize, accept, and answer for?
Authority, handoffs, governance, accountability, and the institutional structures that turn human or agentic activity into decisions an organization is prepared to own.
Research threads
02What institutional machinery lets an organization delegate reasoning while preserving evidence, authority, accountability, and the ability to intervene?
openHow can structured disagreement lead to better decisions?How should systems preserve competing interpretations long enough to test them, without turning every decision into an endless debate?
Writing
04Draft
Organizations Are Made of Handoffs
On humans, software, and the new material entering institutional systems
Skeleton
Some Systems Are Slow Because Trust Is Slow
On why accelerating knowledge work does not remove the institutional work required to make decisions trustworthy
Draft
Designing the Agent's Habitat
A framework for roles, harnesses, authority, and handoffs in agentic organizations
Working note
Agentic Organizations Through Control Theory and Cybernetics
A crosswalk between habitats, harnesses, handoffs, and the language of governed systems
Code and models
00This thread is currently expressed through writing. Code and models will be linked here when they become part of the work.
Still unresolved
Open questions
- What evidence must survive when responsibility changes hands?
- Where should authority live when reasoning is delegated to software?
- How can institutions preserve local agency without dissolving accountability?