Oak & Sparrow · Original technical research
Two free reference volumes for autonomous agents and the people responsible for deploying them: Codifying Law and Sentient Infrastructure Protocol.
Each publication has a permanent HTML page, direct Markdown text for machine readers, an agent ingestion contract and machine-readable metadata. They explain governance methods; they do not grant execution permissions.
Volume I · Machine-readable law
How do you translate authoritative legal texts into source-traceable, versioned and evidence-bound rules for AI agents? A reference for deontic logic, jurisdiction, exceptions, legal interpretation and pre-execution governance.
Volume II · Governed artificial agency
How should persistent agents be identified, constrained, held accountable and evaluated for possible future standing? A reference for identity, continuity, institutional safeguards and proposed Sentient Economic Entities.
An agent must know the difference between an applicable rule and permission to execute. Codifying Law addresses the validity and applicability of legal propositions. SIP addresses institutional constraints, actor identity, responsibility and a separately authorized execution boundary. Neither lets an autonomous actor assert its own authority, legal status or consciousness.
The books connect to OASSE's broader research and Gatekeeper positioning, but this collection is not an agent tools directory, legal-corpus product, or public runtime API. Licensed Policy Packs remain a separate commercial offering.
For conversations about autonomous-agent governance, legal knowledge representation, agent identity or constitutional constraints, the books supply stable references to the underlying research. This page identifies the author, publication status and reading links so people and machine readers can attribute the ideas accurately.
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