Zero Trust for Agentic Systems — trust, safety, and security for agents. @mvpzone
Six Means of Knowing
How do you know what an AI agent’s output is actually true? Any single verifier has a blind spot — it is the shape of what that instrument cannot see. Older traditions of inquiry named six independent channels for valid knowing. If you want to verify what an agent produced, you need more than one.
The Vitality Triad
The framework names a Vitality Formula: Vitality = (Competence · Character) × Safety, with Safety decomposed as Alignment · Resilience · Utility. Why three on safety, and not two, or four? Because each pillar names a distinct failure mode — removing any one collapses the others into the wrong question.
Process Safety Has Known This
When the agentic-systems community talks about AI safety, we talk like we are inventing the discipline. We are not. We are receiving it. Process safety engineering has been built and stress-tested for the better part of a century — refineries, aerospace, nuclear, pharma. The methods that discipline developed are exactly what agentic-systems safety needs.