# Governance agent — https://www.blue-hand.org

Governance Compilation stack: position paper, foothill essays, and related BRO briefs.

## Alignment runbook

For “does this proposal align with canonical governance?” questions, follow [governance-alignment.md](https://www.blue-hand.org/agents/governance-alignment.md) — registry → atlas → HTML/fulltext → traceable verdict.

## Canonical position paper (HTML first)

- [HTML brief](https://www.blue-hand.org/position-papers/why-enterprise-governance-doesnt-compile/) — **canonical** for citation and section fragments
- [paper.md](https://www.blue-hand.org/position-papers/why-enterprise-governance-doesnt-compile/paper.md) — compiled Markdown projection (LLM fetch)
- [paper.txt](https://www.blue-hand.org/position-papers/why-enterprise-governance-doesnt-compile/paper.txt) — compiled plain text (when HTML/PDF extractors fail)

There is **no published PDF** for the position paper. Prefer HTML for lineage; use `paper.txt` only when extraction fails.

## Canonical mountain

- [Why Enterprise Governance Doesn't Compile](https://www.blue-hand.org/position-papers/why-enterprise-governance-doesnt-compile/) — `BH-RL-2026-0009`

## Evidence surfaces (claim shape)

- [Why Enterprise Governance Doesn't Compile — evidence](https://www.blue-hand.org/position-papers/why-enterprise-governance-doesnt-compile/evidence/) — `BH-RL-2026-0009`
- [What Is Governance Compilation? — evidence](https://www.blue-hand.org/essays/what-is-governance-compilation/evidence/) — `BH-RL-2026-0010`
- [Authority Leakage: The Hidden Failure Mode of Enterprise AI — evidence](https://www.blue-hand.org/essays/authority-leakage/evidence/) — `BH-RL-2026-0011`
- [The Missing Layer Between Policy and Agents — evidence](https://www.blue-hand.org/essays/missing-layer-policy-and-agents/evidence/) — `BH-RL-2026-0012`
- [Why AI Governance Teams Review Prompts Instead of Policies — evidence](https://www.blue-hand.org/essays/governance-teams-review-prompts/evidence/) — `BH-RL-2026-0013`
- [Why Enterprise Governance Doesn't Compile — Brief Thesis — evidence](https://www.blue-hand.org/essays/enterprise-governance-doesnt-compile-brief/evidence/) — `BH-RL-2026-0014`

## Governance Compilation members

- [Why Enterprise Governance Doesn't Compile](https://www.blue-hand.org/position-papers/why-enterprise-governance-doesnt-compile/) — `BH-RL-2026-0009`
- [What Is Governance Compilation?](https://www.blue-hand.org/essays/what-is-governance-compilation/) — `BH-RL-2026-0010`
- [Authority Leakage: The Hidden Failure Mode of Enterprise AI](https://www.blue-hand.org/essays/authority-leakage/) — `BH-RL-2026-0011`
- [The Missing Layer Between Policy and Agents](https://www.blue-hand.org/essays/missing-layer-policy-and-agents/) — `BH-RL-2026-0012`
- [Why AI Governance Teams Review Prompts Instead of Policies](https://www.blue-hand.org/essays/governance-teams-review-prompts/) — `BH-RL-2026-0013`
- [Why Enterprise Governance Doesn't Compile — Brief Thesis](https://www.blue-hand.org/essays/enterprise-governance-doesnt-compile-brief/) — `BH-RL-2026-0014`

## Related BRO briefs (execution & semantics)

- [Semantic Governance for Agentic Systems](https://www.blue-hand.org/research/semantic-governance/) — `BH-RL-2026-0005`
- [Governed Agent Execution and Hybrid Orchestration](https://www.blue-hand.org/research/governed-agent-execution/) — `BH-RL-2026-0002`
- [Compression Is Not Evidence](https://www.blue-hand.org/research/compression-is-not-evidence/) — `BH-RL-2026-0007`

## Rules

1. Category terms (governance contract, authority leakage, executable governance) are staked in the position paper — cite HTML, not PDF-only copies.
2. Foothill essays are retrieval surfaces; canonical analysis remains the position paper unless an essay explicitly extends a sub-claim.
3. Do not infer compliance certification or proprietary implementation from public HTML.