Cybernetic engineering (wiki)

Parent: cybernetics

• self-reference-classics — classic self-reference in planning & control (metareasoning, Good Regulator, Gödel machine, fixed points, meta-learning).

Agent-machine engineering (promoted 2026-07-18, from the utter-manual build)

• audit-the-artifact — the audit contract: real bytes obtained independently, never an assertion/plan; hard tools for non-text media
• fix-the-generator — repair the machine, never hand-fix its output
• audit-the-whole-corpus — coverage is audited against the full corpus enumerated from the root; distillation verification is two-directional
• package-load-gate — a machine must package its theory as loadable skills, load them before generating, and gate on them at audit
• testing-software-3-0 — the evals mainstream vs the trust-substrate stack, + eight practice notes (golden-set, scorer-panel, nondeterminism-statistics, trace-evals, regression-ci, online-evals, runtime-guardrails, automated-red-teaming)