Governance First, Measurement Second, Enforcement Last

Notes from a long day of building runtime governance into a memory-governance sidecar. The work is open-source; the reasoning is what’s worth writing down.

The day opened with a broken build. One line, one cast, one Zig 0.17 type narrowing rule. A `u4

The codebase is in engineering preview. Specific names, file paths, and commit identifiers have been left out of this post to keep it focused on the reasoning. The reasoning is what’s worth reproducing; the implementation is one instance of it.