Independent technology advisor · Poznań, Poland

Make complex
technology useful.

I help leaders turn cloud, security, DevOps, and emerging AI into systems that are resilient, responsible, and ready for the real world.

Research terminology: on this site, an AI agent harness is the vendor-neutral control and execution environment around models and agents: context, tools, permissions, state, decision gates, evidence and effects. It does not refer to Harness.io.

L5 · Architecture · 3 Nov 2026Capabilities Are Not Permissions

Why discovery and connectivity never grant authority to act.

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Harness Weekly · 24 Oct–1 Nov 2026Harness Weekly: Evidence Before Effects

Monitoring, identity, skills, security evidence and privacy controls from the 1 November update.

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L4 · Applied controls · 29 Oct 2026Memory Admission: What an Agent Is Allowed to Remember

An enforceable gate for provenance, retention, authorization and revocable long-term memory.

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L4 · Architecture · 27 Oct 2026Context Is Governed State, Not Just Tokens

Provenance, access, purpose and freshness govern admissible agent context.

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Harness Weekly · 19–23 Oct (catch-up 27 Oct)Harness Weekly: 19–23 October 2026 — Control Signals

Five verified primary sources and their proposed control implications.

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L3 · Applied · 22 Oct (catch-up 27 Oct)Planning, Delegation and Synthesis Without Losing Decision Authority

Bound specialist work without delegating consequential approval.

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L3 · Runtime & Orchestration · 20 Oct 2026Central Authority, Distributed Cognition

Distributed reasoning with explicit consequential decision authority.

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Harness Weekly · 18 Oct 2026From Agent Experiments to Governed Systems: Five Engineering Lessons

Lessons in governed agent delivery, fail-open security evaluation, independent safety barriers and provenance.

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L2 · Applied control · 15 Oct 2026Promotion Is a Control: From Experiment to Qualified Capability

Bind exact agent changes to evidence, independent qualification, accountable approval and verified deployment.

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L2 · Governed Continual Harness · 13 Oct 2026The Governed Continual Harness: How Agent Systems Are Allowed to Change

Separate experimental improvement from evidence-based qualification and authorized promotion.

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L1 · Applied control · 8 Oct 2026The AI/Agent Factory: Promotion, Ownership and Portfolio Gates

How initiatives enter, advance, pause, scale or leave the portfolio without turning delivery evidence into automatic business approval.

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Architecture release · 1 Oct 2026AI Agent Harness Architecture v1.3.0: Govern the Effective System

Governed state transitions, effective-system capability, inherited policy, skill evolution, external-server trust, cross-layer evidence and outcome-based assurance.

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L0 · Applied boundary · 1 Oct 2026Architecture Before Tools: Defining the Boundary of a Governed AI System

Draw the governed boundary around purpose, responsibility, data, authority, execution and evidence—not around a product.

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L0 · Vision · 29 Sep 2026The Enterprise AI Operating System: What the AI Agent Harness Actually Governs

Define the governed system before selecting frameworks, models or tools: business intent, decision rights, lifecycle, evidence and explicit boundaries first.

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L3 · Runtime & orchestration · 22 Sep 2026The AI Agent Harness Is Part of the Model

Why context, planning, action space and governance determine the effective capability, cost and risk of an AI agent.

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Architecture release · 18 Sep 2026AI Agent Harness Architecture v1.1.0: Least Sufficient Governance

Trajectory control, obligation-first H0–H3 depth, relevance-scoped tools and independently verified deployed effects.

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L5 · Capability & integration · 16 Sep 2026Skills Replace Prompts

Move recurring AI work from improvised instructions to versioned capability contracts with explicit tools, authority, evidence and lifecycle.

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L0 · Vision · 1 Sep 2026Toward a Reference Taxonomy for Governed AI Systems

A vendor-neutral map connecting capabilities, architecture, decisions, evidence, risks, controls, responsibilities and lifecycle.

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L0 · Architecture boundary · 3 Sep 2026Frameworks Are Not Architecture

Separate durable capabilities, trust boundaries and governance contracts from replaceable frameworks, protocols, models and vendors.

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L6 · Security, identity & governance · 8 Sep 2026AI Guardrails Are More Than an Output Filter

A layered control architecture across governance, identity, retrieval, generation, tools, outputs and operations.

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Enterprise Assurance · 8 Sep 2026AI Can Draft the Assessment. It Cannot Own the Assurance Decision.

A practical architecture for AI-assisted GRC: evidence first, governed analysis, independent challenge and explicit assurance authority.

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L2/L6 · Policy to control · 21 Aug 2026From Policy Hierarchies to Controls

Design a machine-readable control system that produces usable evidence instead of a document graveyard.

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L1/L2 · Operating model · 21 Aug 2026The Agentic GRC Operating Model

Use specialised agents to collect evidence and route decisions while human owners retain authority.

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L2/L6 · Governed enforcement · 21 Aug 2026From Paper Policies to Agent-Driven Controls

Turn machine-readable requirements into governed gates, evidence contracts and accountable escalation.

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Blockchain governance · 10 Sep 2026Decentralization Does Not Remove Responsibility

A practical responsibility model for decentralized systems: factual control, activity, decision authority, economic benefit and assurance evidence.

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Blockchain governance · 12 Aug 2026The Blockchain Responsibility Model

Assign capable, accountable owners across protocols, infrastructure, applications, governance, data, and users.

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Cloud Infrastructure ✦ DevSecOps ✦ Information Security ✦ AI Governance ✦ Resilience
Selected expertise

From strategic decisions to the operating details that make them work.

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Cloud & Infrastructure

Pragmatic architecture, migrations, reliability, and cost-aware operations built around the business—not the tooling.

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DevOps & DevSecOps

Delivery systems that make secure defaults, clear ownership, and operational feedback part of everyday engineering.

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Information Security

Risk-led security programs, DPO perspective, resilience planning, and controls that teams can actually sustain.

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Responsible AI Agents

Least privilege, human approval, auditability, and practical guardrails for AI systems that can take action.

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How I work

Clarity before complexity.

The strongest technology decisions happen when business context, operational reality, and risk are considered together. That’s where I work best: across the boundaries.

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Business first

Translate technical choices into cost, risk, speed, and resilience.

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Secure by design

Build ownership and controls in from the start—not after launch.

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Useful over novel

Choose technology for the outcome, not for the trend cycle.

20+years across IT operations, cloud, and security
4advisory domains: cloud, security, AI, and GRC
Publicresearch notes with claim boundaries, source links, and explicit evidence limits
Trusted practice

Security, ethics
and responsible innovation.

Independent advisory grounded in practical protection, cloud security, and accountable AI.

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