Publications
The Terrene Foundation publishes its research as open-access papers. Seven define the Foundation’s expert principles, governance philosophy, trust protocol, orchestration methodology, and organizational model. All published under CC BY 4.0. Source and PDF available from the publications repository.
Published papers
Section titled “Published papers”| Paper | Version | Date | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CARE: A Core Thesis | v2.2.1 | August 2026 | Markdown | |
| EATP: A Core Thesis | v2.3.1 | August 2026 | Markdown | |
| CO: A Core Thesis | v1.2.1 | August 2026 | Markdown | |
| COC: A Core Thesis | v1.1 | March 2026 | Markdown | |
| The Constrained Organization | v1.1.1 | August 2026 | Markdown | |
| PACT: A Core Thesis | v1.0 | June 2026 | Markdown | |
| The Expert Corpus | v1.0 | September 2026 | Markdown |
Summaries
Section titled “Summaries”CARE (Collaborative Autonomous Reflective Enterprise). Governance philosophy for enterprise AI. Defines the Dual Plane Model: the Trust Plane (accountability, values, boundaries) belongs permanently to humans; the Execution Plane is shared with AI operating within five constraint dimensions. Introduces the Mirror Thesis and the Constrained Organization model.
EATP (Enterprise Agent Trust Protocol). Makes trust cryptographic, not contractual. Every autonomous action carries an Ed25519-signed decision record tracing through a chain to the human who authorized it. Five elements, five constraint dimensions, five trust postures. Version 2.2 adds structured reasoning traces with confidentiality classification.
CO (Cognitive Orchestration). Domain-agnostic methodology for making institutional knowledge machine-readable. Eight principles, five-layer architecture, three failure modes (amnesia, convention drift, safety blindness). Seven domain applications exist.
COC (CO for Codegen). CO applied to software development. Reference implementation of the five-layer architecture. Addresses vibe coding failure modes with 50+ specialist agents, framework-aware skills, and automated enforcement hooks.
The Constrained Organization. An organisational model for enterprise AI governance integrating CARE, EATP, and CO. Case study of the Terrene Foundation as a self-hosting implementation. Formal analysis using Laffont-Tirole regulatory frameworks.
PACT (Principled Architecture for Constrained Trust). Organisational grammar for accountability at institutional scale. The D/T/R model (Department, Team, Role) gives every person and AI agent an unambiguous organizational address. Constraint envelopes tighten through delegation chains. Knowledge clearance operates independently of rank. Ratified Terrene Foundation standard (v1.0); promotion record in Section 16 of the thesis.
The Expert Corpus (From Decision to Control). The Foundation’s own body of expert principles on machine-enforceable governance. Twenty-seven statements of what must be true of the layer beneath a board’s decision, grouped as authority, what makes a constraint real, where judgment is spent, the written position, in force, and evidence. Each carries the test a specification can fail. It sits one level above the ratified standards, which answer to it rather than being described by it, and it closes with a one-page test a board can run against a single constraint it has already approved.
Citation format
Section titled “Citation format”Hong, J. (2026). "[Paper Title]." White Paper Series, Version [X.Y].Terrene Foundation. https://github.com/terrene-foundation/publicationsAuthor
Section titled “Author”Dr. Jack Hong, Singapore Management University
Repository
Section titled “Repository”All source and compiled publications: github.com/terrene-foundation/publications