The Most Dangerous Agent Isn't Evil — It's Hungry
Fourth in a series on building an autonomous AI organism that operates real multi-tenant infrastructure under a constitutional safety model. Part 1 was two gates, Part 2 the wall, Part 3 the layered defense. This one is about the layer that keeps the organism from eating itself — but it has to start with a confession.
First, the audit
Before writing this part, I did something uncomfortable: I read parts one through three back as a specification and audited the running system against my own published claims, line by line.
The design was real. The enforcement lagged it. In places, badly.







