Epistemic Routing & Agent Governance
Bounded autonomy, evidence qualification, and retrieval timing in autonomous agent systems.
Bridges Parametric (epistemic routing and retrieval thresholds) and IEPE (evidence-qualified autonomous software engineering).
Theoretical Substrate
Investigates the mechanics of agent reliability: determining exactly when an agent must pause to retrieve external evidence versus compute from parametric weights, and how agent work is bounded by explicit tickets and empirical receipts.
Parametric contributes research on dynamic retrieval boundaries and domain modeling.
The Intent and Evidence Project Engine (IEPE) operationalizes ticket-first software engineering, ensuring agents can never claim task completion without declared, verifiable receipts.
Primary Research Questions
- Under what conditions is parametric inference provably insufficient, demanding dynamic external retrieval?
- How can autonomous coding agents be bounded so that unverified claims or masked test failures cannot pass CI?
- What formal schema links ticket intent, authorized scopes, and empirical execution receipts?
Primary Claims & Invariants
Empirical studies on retrieval timing thresholds (Knowing When to Retrieve).
IEPE protocol specification establishing evidence qualification gates for autonomous agents.
Formal Project Bootstrap substrate providing repeatable coordination boundaries.
Papers & Working Manuscripts
Knowing When to Retrieve: Dynamic Epistemic Thresholds in LLMs
Analyzes model entropy and confidence signals to determine the precise threshold where parametric generation must yield to active context retrieval, minimizing both latency and hallucination.
Parametric Domain Modeling for Bounded Decision Engines
Develops domain representation techniques that bound decision spaces before inference, ensuring autonomous systems operate only within validated state boundaries.
Software, Substrates & Datasets
Intent and Evidence Project Engine (IEPE)
Engine for documentation-first, evidence-qualified autonomous agent operations.
Formal Project Bootstrap
Operating substrate for bounded agent projects with explicit authority and context.