Notes from the protocol
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Working notes on contracts, quality measurement, and reading audit trails.
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Reading mpl audit trails: forensic patterns
An MPL audit record is small. What you can do with a stream of them is not. A field guide to the queries that matter once the trail exists.
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Quality measurement vs guardrails: a different layer of the stack
Guardrails block harmful output. Quality measurement scores correctness against the contract. They are not the same job and they shouldn't share a budget.
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Why agent-to-agent calls need contracts, not just JSON
JSON is a wire format, not an agreement. Once two agents start talking, the absence of a contract becomes the most expensive thing in the stack.