Agent alignment

In practice

How alignment holds

Alignment is not a promise added after launch. It shows up in the structure of the system— what it may do, what it does, what it reports back, and how it behaves when pushed.

• 01

  Bounds instructure

  Permissions, context, and scope built in.

  Limits live in how the system is built— what an agent can see, what it can touch, and where it must stop. Input can argue with a rule; it cannot rewrite one.

  Interoperability contracts
• 02

  The action–review cycle

  Permission precedes action; review follows.

  Before a system acts, it needs explicit permission; after it acts, the action enters review. Alignment means optimized identification and execution of the cycle stages— planning, permission, action, review— at every step, not left to interpretation.

  Agent design
• 03

  Reasoning thatreports itself

  What ran, what it did, what it didn't.

  Legible reasoning means every step can be inspected: what ran, what it did, and what it decided not to do. Supervision is built in, not bolted on afterward.

  Psyde CoTA
• 04

  Kept honestunder pressure

  Failure modes studied first.

  Alignment that only holds while nothing pushes back is not alignment. We study the ways systems drift, get talked around, or cross a line— then build so the line holds.

  Alignment studies at Psysig