Article 1 — Why AI Agent Governance Is More Broken Than You Think
Everyone is building AI agents.
Published: May 8, 2026
Read on Medium →Layer Zero explores the architecture of governance comparability.
Each article develops one concept in the chain from equivalence to formal incomparability.
Decifact is the open-source reference implementation.
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Article 2 — The Receipt Is Not the Decision
Every AI governance conversation eventually arrives at the same answer: audit trails.
Published: May 16, 2026
Read on Medium →Article 3 — Equivalence Is Not Enough
The next governance problem is not whether two AI systems decided the same thing.
Published: May 27, 2026
Read on Medium →Article 4 — The Layer That Has to Exist Before Everything Else
There is a category of infrastructure that only becomes visible when it is absent.
Published: June 3, 2026
Read on Medium →Article 5 — Coordination Is Not Comparability
Two AI systems are communicating.
Published: June 16, 2026
Read on Medium →Article 6 — The Basis Before Comparison
Last week we argued that coordination cannot establish comparability.
Published: June 25, 2026
Read on Medium →Article 7 — What Exactly Is Being Compared?
Decisions are never compared directly. The conditions that made those decisions meaningful are.
Published: June 30, 2026
Read on Medium →Article 8
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Core Concepts
- Comparability
- Whether two independently governed systems share a basis on which their decisions can be evaluated together. Comparability overview →
- Comparison Basis
- The structural conditions that must hold before a comparison between two governance decisions is admissible.
- Governance Comparability
- The question of whether the governance conditions of two systems make their decisions comparable — distinct from whether the decisions themselves are equivalent.
- Decision Equivalence
- Whether two systems reached the same decision. Comparability is a precondition; equivalence is the result. Governance Equivalence →
- Transferability
- Whether a conclusion that holds in one governed system can be carried into another. Comparability does not entail transferability.
- Formal Incomparability
- The determination that no shared comparison basis exists between two systems. Not an error — a finding.