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.
Decifact uses Cross-System Decision Comparability as its primary public-facing term for the question of whether a comparison basis exists across independently governed judgments. Governed decision comparability and comparison basis are supporting terms. The terms below remain technical distinctions.
Each article develops one concept in the chain from equivalence to formal incomparability.
Decifact provides an open-source proof surface for the current comparison-determination implementation.
Articles
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
Further research publications are in preparation.
Core Concepts
- Cross-System Decision Comparability
- Decifact uses Cross-System Decision Comparability as its primary public-facing term for the question of whether a comparison basis exists across independently governed judgments. Governed decision comparability and comparison basis are supporting terms. Governance comparability, decision equivalence, and formal incomparability remain the technical distinctions defined below. Cross-System Decision Comparability →
- 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 determinations are equivalent under a valid comparison basis evaluated by the current implementation. Comparability determines whether equivalence can be evaluated under the current model. Equivalence is one possible result. Other outcomes include NON_EQUIVALENT and FORMALLY_INCOMPARABLE. 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 the current implementation did not establish a shared comparison basis under its active comparison-basis mechanism. Not an error — a finding.