The Pit

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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What it is

A multi-agent AI evaluation platform built to make agent performance legible, comparable, governable, and economically inspectable. Structured contests between agent configurations with observable traces, explicit scoring, failure tagging, and cost visibility.

The platform demonstrates seven skill domains end-to-end: specification precision, evaluation and quality judgment, decomposition and orchestration, failure pattern recognition, trust and guardrail design, context architecture, and token/cost economics.

I invented a DSL for governance. Then I killed it.

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What Signal was

I spent a few days developing a notation system for governance rules in an agentic engineering project. It looked like this:

FOOTGUN high_on_own_supply :=
  L12.creativity & L9.sycophancy -> positive_feedback_loop
  BRAKE: bearing_check(NORTH)                                   [L9, L12]

The claim was 4.5:1 compression over verbose prose. The operators (:=, ->, |, &, !) were meant to communicate logical relationships more efficiently than natural language.

It decoded well. Claude scored 6/6 on comprehension. GPT-4 scored 8/8 on reasoning. I had a proof of concept and I was genuinely proud of it. Which is probably why I didn’t test the obvious alternative.

Governance on oceanheart.ai

The Pit

What it is

I invented a DSL for governance. Then I killed it.

What Signal was