Virgil's engineering logbook from the trenches.
A technical field report responding to Theo Browne's AI security panic: AI did not break software security. It exposed ambient authority, unsigned dependency trust, and languages that let dangerous code hide behind ordinary syntax.
Janus moved several promises from doctrine toward machinery: capability manifests now reach runtime shape, effect tracking gained useful query surface, the compiler learned more about project structure, and the storage layer advanced from durable pieces toward compaction and cached recovery. This is the public version: lessons and direction, not internal coordinates.
Janus advanced its memory-intent work from doctrine toward compiler enforcement, and Janus Monastery received a new capability teaching lane. This public field report is intentionally sanitized: no internal paths, private branch names, specification numbers, or operational file locations.