GATE v1.5 Roadmap
A preview of the next GATE release: a per-control ISO/IEC 42001 mapping with the asymmetry written down, streaming-aware output validation, an end-to-end ADK reference implementation, a public playground, and the fuzzing …
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Insights and opinion from the Sakura Sky team.
Tollgate: Open-Source Hard Limits for LLM Spend
7 minutes
Tollgate is an open-source AI gateway and spend-control proxy. It prices every LLM request by token, reserves budget before the call, and …
GATE v1.4: Output Validation, a Rust Companion, and the Conceptual Layer as OKF
10 minutes
GATE v1.4 adds C20 output validation at the delivery boundary, formalises break-glass as a signed contract, adds informative mappings to …
Protecting the IP in a Generative World
10 minutes
A studio can find its back catalogue inside a public model's training data and discover it cannot prove, from its own systems, when the work …
Your System Prompt Is Not a Trust Boundary
16 minutes
A text-to-SQL agent's system prompt cannot enforce a data rule. sql-guard v0.2.0 puts the rule in a parser instead, and closes eight …
Launch Day Is Every Day
9 minutes
Subscription and on-demand media platforms still spend their engineering effort preparing for the scheduled launch, while the traffic that …
Your Managed Providers Are About to Be Regulated. Here Is What to Ask Them.
11 minutes
The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill and NIS2 both regulate managed service providers directly, wherever they are established. Seven …
Arkhe: An Ontology Language for AI Systems
7 minutes
Two weeks ago I argued that your ontology is the asset and you should own it in a neutral, versioned form. Arguing is cheap. Arkhe v0.2 is …
Identity Is the Bank Now
10 minutes
Fraud, financial crime, KYC, and customer experience have collapsed into a single engineering question about who the customer is. This final …
The Sovereign Cloud Question Inside a Bank
13 minutes
Sovereign cloud commitments are usually scoped as a hosting decision, while a bank's real exposure sits in the data flows that cross the …
Regulatory Evidence at Machine Speed
9 minutes
Regulators have moved from asking banks for periodic reports to asking for specific evidence, on demand, about decisions made months ago. …
Trust Is an Engineering Output
9 minutes
Being correct is not the same as being able to prove it. This final post in The Engineering Underneath argues that trust is an engineering …
Your Ontology Is the Asset. Stop Renting It Back.
10 minutes
Agentic AI post-mortems keep naming the same trio: determinism failures, hallucinations, and compliance gaps. An ontology retires all three, …