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Notes on AI code provenance, the EU AI Act, and building a self-hosted governance tool in the open.

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Git blame can’t see your AI

Why the missing layer in version control isn’t who committed a line — it’s which model wrote it, from what prompt, and whether anyone reviewed it.

Provenance · Jun 2026 · 6 min

The five-signal confidence engine

Capture layer, request-UUID correlation, time correlation, content similarity, and tool fingerprint — how we score every record 0.0–1.0.

Engineering · Jun 2026 · 9 min

Parsing three tool-calling protocols

Anthropic tool_use, OpenAI’s apply_patch DSL, and Gemini functionCall — and how the proxy resolves whether an edit actually landed.

Engineering · May 2026 · 11 min

Preparing for the EU AI Act as an engineer

Articles 11, 12, and 14 in plain language, and the audit trail you can generate automatically at the point of generation.

Compliance · May 2026 · 7 min

Why we’ll never have a cloud version

Self-hosted isn’t a tier — it’s the product. The argument for keeping prompts and code on infrastructure you control.

Principles · Apr 2026 · 4 min

Dynamic routing that pays for itself

Classifying requests as simple / standard / complex, downgrading the easy ones, and recording the dollar saved on every record.

Cost · Apr 2026 · 5 min