The Mechanism Auditor

A trade book for the person who is now the only witness to software that acts on its own. Part one is the loss: the demo was a promise, and a green tick says less than everyone believes. Part two is the instrument: the claim ledger, the mechanism map, the evidence trail, the detector and the response, each with the failure it is built to catch. Part three is the field guide — six signatures, from the green run to the origin that had not yet propagated, taken from one week of ordinary operation across seven products. Part four is the practice, including a first week in the order it happened. Part five is the business of auditing: what to charge, what to refuse. Part six is the twelve rules and the uncomfortable arithmetic that follows from them.