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Kevin Knapp

Kevin Knapp

Lead AI Product Engineer · Agent Governance · Verifiable Autonomy

Bicameral · MythologIQ Labs · Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit · AgenTrust

LinkedIn Technical work

Governance by prompt is not real governance. I build agent systems where authority, provenance, validation, and release decisions are enforced outside the model's own reasoning.

What I work on

I build trustworthy autonomous-agent systems across four connected areas:

  • Production agent systems: governed local-first runtime, MCP, evidence ingestion, authority boundaries, deterministic validation, and release evidence at Bicameral.
  • Open-source governance: listed maintainer on Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit, with work spanning policy enforcement, delegated-context governance, contributor trust, MCP verification, and security controls.
  • Verifiable agent state: contributor to AgenTrust Agent Manifest, including governed persistent-memory checkpointing and fail-closed state-evolution semantics.
  • Independent systems: local-first agent products, governed memory, agent-driven software development, privacy, and reusable AI skill infrastructure.

Selected public evidence

Area Contribution Evidence
Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit Governed accumulated context across delegated multi-agent workflows; contributor trust and MCP verification work. Maintainers · PR #2800 · PR #2852
AgenTrust · Agent Manifest Designed the v0.2 incremental memory checkpoint/delta binding protocol for governed persistent state. Issue #174 · PR #190
Agent Memory Public reference architecture for governed memory, lifecycle, forgetting, provenance, conformance, and runtime evidence. Repository · ADR-021
Bicameral Governed acquisition, redaction, provenance, decision evidence, and fail-closed validation in a production agent stack. PR #269 · PR #287
skillz Passive, provenance-aware skill knowledge resource for agents, with first-party skills and exact-version third-party review evidence. Repository

Full technical-work index →

Operating principles

  1. Uncertainty may propose. Authority constrains. Durable consequences require bounded permission.
  2. Provenance over phrasing. Where an instruction, memory, artifact, or decision came from matters more than how confidently it is worded.
  3. Negative paths are part of the contract. Replay, stale state, residual data, partial failure, and unauthorized mutation must have defined behavior.
  4. Evidence should outlive the agent. Important decisions need inspectable artifacts, not a claim that the model considered them.

Toolset

Languages: Python · Rust · TypeScript · Go
Agent systems: MCP · orchestration · local inference · RAG · governed memory
Security / trust: policy engines · capability mediation · provenance · redaction · tamper-evident evidence
Platform: GitHub Actions · Docker · PostgreSQL · SQLite · FastAPI · Tauri


MythologIQ Labs, LLC · governed agents · verifiable trails · accountable autonomy

LinkedIn · Technical Work

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  1. microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit Public

    AI Agent Governance Toolkit — Policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing, and reliability engineering for autonomous AI agents. Covers 10/10 OWASP Agentic Top 10.

    Python 6.3k 1.1k

  2. ucsandman/DashClaw ucsandman/DashClaw Public

    Remote approvals, policy checks, and execution evidence for unattended AI agents.

    TypeScript 306 52

  3. UOR-Foundation/UOR-Framework UOR-Foundation/UOR-Framework Public

    Formalization of the UOR Framework as the https://uor.foundation/ model.

    Rust 23 15

  4. agentrust-io/agent-manifest agentrust-io/agent-manifest Public

    Agent Manifest SDK. Hardware-anchors all 10 artifacts defining an agent at deployment. Python and TypeScript.

    Python 18 20

  5. MythologIQ-Labs-LLC/agent-memory MythologIQ-Labs-LLC/agent-memory Public

    Python 14 1

  6. MythologIQ-Labs-LLC/FailSafe MythologIQ-Labs-LLC/FailSafe Public

    TypeScript 6