# Selected releases and notes.

Research publications, standards contributions, demonstrations and occasional notes from OTIS Labs.

## August 2026 — Checklist: Authority Checklist for Consequential Agents

Nine questions for enterprises putting agents in front of money, customers or infrastructure: who holds the authority, how it is bounded, how it is revoked, and what evidence remains afterward.

Download the checklist (PDF): https://otislabs.ai/__l5e/assets-v1/030c18c1-8419-45db-ba56-1819a4cc67f9/AuthorityChecklistForConsequentialAgents.pdf

## August 2026 — Essay: AI Agents Are Not Traditional Software

Why agents act through ongoing interpretation in real time, and the case for a provider-agnostic authority layer. /research/ai-agents-are-not-traditional-software

## July 2026 — Research: Experiential AGI Is Already Here

Intelligence, alignment and human sovereignty in the human-AI relationship. /research/experiential-agi-is-already-here

## July 2026 — Standards: Comment on NIST SP 800-228A

Public comment on authorization for agentic systems and the boundary between access and legitimate action. /research/comment-on-nist-sp-800-228a

## July 2026 — Demonstration: OTIS Guard: Runtime Mandate Check

A working demonstration of bounded spending authority for an AI agent, with approve, confirm, escalate and block outcomes. /work/runtime-mandate-check

## June 2026 — Essay: Sovereignty

Why preserving the human or organization as the source of authority may become a practical requirement for securing agentic systems. /research/sovereignty

## June 2026 — Research: Trust Asymmetry in Autonomous AI Agents

How repeated agent success increases human confidence while reducing verification. /research/trust-asymmetry

## April 2026 — Standards: Behavioral Coherence, Trust Asymmetry, and Emergent Behavior in Agent Identity Subjects

Public comment submitted in response to the W3C DID v1.1 Candidate Recommendation. /research/behavioral-coherence-in-agent-identity-subjects

## March 2026 — Research: The Detection Horizon

The interval between an agent's divergence from its mandate and the moment a human is able to notice it. /research/detection-horizon

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