Volume I — Resilience Beyond Uptime
Book by David Forbes. Publication-Ready. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Publisher Review Portal
This portal provides access to the Stable Authority Boundary™ engineering framework, supporting publications, related technical work, and publisher-review materials. Complete manuscripts, proposals, and supporting documentation are available for editorial review upon request.
Stable Authority Boundary Series
A five-volume engineering series on authority, refusal, resilience, verification, and governance in autonomous, distributed, and AI-enabled systems.
Volume II — Stable Authority Boundary
Monograph by David Forbes. Publication-Ready. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Volume III — A Marathon of Restraint
Book by David Forbes. Publication-Ready. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Volume IV — Teaching Restraint
Monograph by David Forbes. Publication-Ready. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Volume V — Stable Authority Boundary™ and Agentic Systems
Book by David Forbes. Publication-Ready. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Other Technical Works
A Marathon of Restraint Why Authority Must Decay in Autonomous Systems
Monograph by David Forbes. Complete Manuscript. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Authority Before Action
A Practical AI Judgment Series book about recognizing authority before AI-supported action, including when a system should advise, request clarification, refuse, or stop.
Authority, Refusal, and Resilience in Autonomous Systems
Monograph by David Forbes. Complete Manuscript. Under Publisher Review. Rights Available.
Authority, Restraint, and Resilience
Monograph by David Forbes. Complete Manuscript. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Authority, Silence, and Failure Modes
Technical Brief by David Forbes. Complete Manuscript. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Better In. Better Out.
The opening book in the Practical AI Judgment Series. It explains how better context, questions, corrections, and boundaries turn AI use into a productive iterative process.
Building Systems That Can Be Recovered
Monograph by David Forbes. Complete Manuscript. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Evidence Before Confidence
A Practical AI Judgment Series book explaining why polished AI results are not evidence and what must be preserved so consequential work can be reviewed, reproduced, and trusted.
How to read Zenodo like a systems engineer
Technical Brief by David Forbes. Complete Manuscript. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Identity Is Not Authority
Technical response to NIST’s discussion of identity in agentic AI, examining the architectural distinction between authenticated identity and recognized authority. The paper distinguishes identity, authentication, access, permission, capability, evidence, and authority, and argues that…
Nobody Is in Charge Anymore
Technical Brief by David Forbes. Complete Manuscript. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Refusal as a Legitimacy-Preserving Enforcement Act
Monograph by David Forbes. Complete Manuscript. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Refusal Is Not Failure
Technical Brief by David Forbes. Complete Manuscript. Available for Review. Rights Available.
SEAMS™: From Scattered Information to Structured Evidence
Book by David Forbes. Publication-Ready. Available for Review. Rights Available.
Who possessed authority? As organizations deploy increasingly capable systems, machines are no longer limited to simple
Technical Brief by David Forbes. Complete Manuscript. Available for Review. Rights Available.
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