Whitepaper: Repo-Native Agent Operations (v1.0.0)

We’ve published the studio’s founding whitepaper — Repo-Native Agent Operations, v1.0.0.

It argues that the delivery gap in agentic software is a system-of-record gap, not a tooling gap, and describes six architectural commitments that make a one-operator studio’s every claim checkable by git log: the gnome contract, propose-don’t-decide, the two-layer output contract, trust-tier manifests, runner-level cost receipts, and the guidance ledger. It evaluates them against this studio’s own bootstrap and pilot — the numbers all trace to these repos.

The paper is versioned content: the canonical URL /whitepaper/ always serves the latest release, with a changelog in the paper itself. This is v1.0.0, ratified 2026-07-06.