Warren Smith

Projects

Each artifact explains one question, its method, its result and its limits. Maturity is labelled honestly; most are research prototypes.

Formal verification

ProjectWhat it establishesMaturityGrade
escrow-budget A budget bound (spend within cap) holds for all reachable states, machine-checked. research prototype PROVEN
vsf-cjson Four kernel-checked theorems about a JSON parser and serialiser, with a differential over 120,000 inputs. research prototype PROVEN

Agent control

ProjectWhat it establishesMaturityGrade
mcp-authority-boundary Mediation held; binding did not. research prototype OBSERVED
capctl-iris A concurrent capability bound holds over every interleaving, machine-checked with no axioms. research prototype PROVEN
safeguards-control-plane A monitor reports intentions as outcomes. research prototype MEASURED
compositional-temporal-safety A compositional safety invariant holds for all finite N, machine-checked. research prototype PROVEN

Evaluation integrity

ProjectWhat it establishesMaturityGrade
evaltrust Two off-the-shelf LLM judges fail in opposite directions; a zero-disagreement judge's agreement interval is degenerate. research prototype MEASURED
inspect-replay Two evaluation logs compared deterministically, distinguishing 'unchanged' from 'cannot tell'. research prototype MEASURED
inspect-audit A read-only auditor flags silent validity failures in evaluation logs. research prototype MEASURED

Security engineering

ProjectWhat it establishesMaturityGrade
escrow-budget-mpst The transfer session is deadlock-free and crash-safe by typing; the budget bound is not expressible in it. research prototype PROVEN
mcp-boundary-audit A harness detects a tool hidden from discovery yet reachable through the call surface, on a mock built to show it. research prototype OBSERVED
semdiff A deterministic, severity-ranked semantic diff for four high-risk engineering formats, no LLM calls. research prototype MEASURED

Assurance architecture

ProjectWhat it establishesMaturityGrade
OMEGA A sealed, replayable decision record whose tamper-evidence is machine-checked. research prototype PROVEN
nanogpt-provenance A verifier re-derives a training run bit-for-bit; cross-hardware re-derivation stays UNKNOWN, not claimed. research prototype MEASURED

Upstream contributions (proposed)

Changes proposed to verification projects maintained by others. Each is an open pull request under review. None has been merged, and none is claimed here as an accepted contribution; each link shows the current state, checked on 2026-08-06.

ProjectProposed changeStatus
cedar-policy/cedar-spec #995 A differential-testing target comparing the typed expression produced by the Rust and Lean typecheckers, against upstream issue #840. Open, changes requested
strata-org/Strata #1448 Classify bugFinding goals with the mode-aware predicates at the minimal check level. Open
strata-org/Strata-CLI #7 Count verification goals with the predicate that matches the check mode. Open
strata-org/Strata-CLI #8 Bump lake-manifest.json to a Strata revision that StrataMainLib compiles against. Open