Presence Is Not Evidence

Someone approved your last deploy. Maybe it was a thumbs-up on a pull request. Maybe it was a green check from a required reviewer who opened the diff, scrolled for eight seconds, and clicked “Approve.” Maybe it was your own merge after CI passed. Regardless of the ceremony’s size, the question is the same: what did that approval actually verify? Not what it was supposed to verify. What it did verify. What evidence exists that a specific risk was evaluated, a specific judgment was exercised, a specific context was held that the system could not hold on its own. ...

June 1, 2026 · 6 min · Sean Escriva

The Pipeline Is Dead, Long Live the Agent Mesh

Picture three agents running concurrently against the same repository. One is implementing a feature. One is scanning the dependency tree for known vulnerabilities. One is validating that the infrastructure change will not violate the compliance baseline. They share typed state through a common data layer. When the security agent finds a vulnerable transitive dependency, the implementation agent sees that result immediately via a CEL query and adjusts its import before the PR is even open. ...

May 21, 2026 · 6 min · Sean Escriva