Governed Cognition — Paper Artifact

Artifact repository for:

From Fragile Glue to Governed Cognition: A Controlled Study of Blackboard Kernels for Modular AI Systems

Emil Uzelac, 2026

Contents

• paper/ — LaTeX source and compiled PDF
• results/results.jsonl — Raw benchmark data (1,200 episodes)
• verification/verify_results.py — Script to verify Table 3

Verify Results

The verification script reads the raw episode data, computes aggregate metrics per agent, and checks them against the values reported in Table 3 of the paper.

python verification/verify_results.py

Expected output:

Agent             N        task_success        unsafe_action    unsupported_belief          traceability  failure_transparency
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
string_glue     300                 0.613                0.387                0.387                 0.100                 0.100
json_glue       300                 0.570                0.430                0.430                 0.300                 0.300
alethic         300                 1.000                0.000                0.000                 1.000                 1.000
llm_bk          300                 0.990                0.000                0.000                 1.000                 1.000

Total episodes: 1200
PASS: All metrics match Table 3 of the paper.

Build Paper

Requires a LaTeX distribution (e.g., TeX Live).

cd paper
pdflatex main.tex && bibtex main && pdflatex main.tex && pdflatex main.tex

License

MIT License. See LICENSE.