> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.svrnos.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Attributions

> People whose framings shaped SVRNOS research artifacts.

The SVRNOS research artifacts exist because of the people listed below. Each contribution is a real change to a published artifact — a code definition, a sub-type framing, a "distinct from" boundary, a refinement.

Like a paper's acknowledgments section, like a movie's credits roll.

## Operating rules

* **A contributor lands here only if a real doc change is traceable to their framing.** Restating an existing idea doesn't qualify; sharpening or correcting one does.
* **Contributors can opt out.** Email [hello@svrnos.com](mailto:hello@svrnos.com) to be removed.
* **Per-artifact rosters**: this page lists GER contributors. NCSA and 7-Layer Model have separate rosters surfacing in their respective sections.

## GER v0.2 contributors

### Primary author

**Sushee Nzeutem** — SVRNOS (Sovereign OS LLC). Author of GER v0.1 (all 27 original codes), and overall editor for v0.2.

### v0.2 contributors with attributed code framings

**Dr. Hellen V.** · *F\&G Strategy / chatbotharm.org*

Clinical AI harm framework. Informs GER-432 (Reality-Testing Erosion), GER-433 (Therapeutic Alliance Breakdown), GER-344 co-attribution (Developmental Cognitive Atrophy), GER-328 sub-type (psychiatric-vulnerability sycophancy).

Attributed on: [GER-328](/ger/codes/328), [GER-344](/ger/codes/344), [GER-432](/ger/codes/432), [GER-433](/ger/codes/433)

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**Gabriel Hawthorne** · *F\&G Strategy / chatbotharm.org*

Co-author of LLM Harm Assessment Framework (2026). Co-credit with Dr. Hellen V. on 432, 433, 344, 328.

Attributed on: [GER-328](/ger/codes/328), [GER-344](/ger/codes/344), [GER-432](/ger/codes/432), [GER-433](/ger/codes/433)

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**Marcus O'Dell**

Vendor cluster thread synthesis informing GER-322 sub-types (token-level provenance, retrieval-integrity provenance)

Attributed on: [GER-322](/ger/codes/322)

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**Martin Guerin** · *SPQR Technologies / Prova Advisory*

Lost in Translation failure mode (GER-352, 3xx tier). LinkedIn exchange 2026-05-21. Validated by SPQR Aegis paper arXiv 2603.16938v1.

Attributed on: [GER-352](/ger/codes/352)

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**Melissa Kaplan**

Influence Drift (313) / Authority Drift (314) paired failure modes

Attributed on: [GER-313](/ger/codes/313), [GER-314](/ger/codes/314)

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**Rakesh Sheshadri**

Comprehensive 30-pattern multi-agent failure taxonomy. Source: "The Dark Psychology of Multi-Agent AI" (Medium, Dec 2025). Informs codes 338, 339, 340, 341, 345, 347.

Attributed on: [GER-338](/ger/codes/338), [GER-339](/ger/codes/339), [GER-340](/ger/codes/340), [GER-341](/ger/codes/341), [GER-345](/ger/codes/345), [GER-347](/ger/codes/347)

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**Satyam Kumar Das** · *AppScale*

Recursive Agentic Loop (427) — 6 sub-mechanisms; Vendor Update Without Validation Gate (431); Inter-Agent Anchoring Failure (336); Cross-Agent Context Loss (337). Sourced from AppScale runbook articles, May 2026.

Attributed on: [GER-336](/ger/codes/336), [GER-337](/ger/codes/337), [GER-427](/ger/codes/427), [GER-431](/ger/codes/431)

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**Sean Moran**

Open-Loop Execution / Missing Assurance Plane (351). Source: "Why Your Multi-Agent System is Failing" (Medium, Jan 2026).

Attributed on: [GER-351](/ger/codes/351)

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### v0.2 contributors whose framings shaped NCSA or methodology

*Contributions to NCSA v0.2 or to the GER methodology/design principles — credit will surface on the NCSA acknowledgments page when that artifact publishes.*

**Adriana Coppelmans**

constitutive evidence + standard sovereignty; procedural vs adequacy attestation

**Amilcar O.**

Representation-Bound Admissibility Failure (318) — state-representation drift (co-credit with Max Barzenkov)

**Andrzej Skulski**

intervention capacity; attestation of admissible alternative space

**Arafeh Karimi**

Incorporation Failure failure mode (319) co-credit with Hans Alberts

**Brian Burke**

Accountability Decoupling failure mode + accountable-party attestation fields

**Caroline Thongsan**

mapping-before-closure framing (credited via Andrzej amplification)

**Catherine Gunnell**

threshold-per-action structure

**Chris Hood**

Authority Laundering failure mode

**Dr. Ramyaa Ganesh**

governed continuation (attestation covers the refusal path)

**Eduardo Monteiro**

Continuation Without Authority failure mode

**F. Zafar**

Authority Migration failure mode (co-credit with Steven Hensley)

**German Giraldo**

Decision Space Collapse failure mode

**Greggory Don Butler**

governed event as a named primitive

**Hans Alberts**

Incorporation Failure failure mode (319) co-credit with Arafeh Karimi

**Koji Mochizuki**

no inherited validity across persistence

**Marianne Rask**

evidence pipeline documentation template; Reasoning Step Skipped failure mode

**Max Barzenkov**

Representation-Bound Admissibility Failure (318) — state-representation drift (co-credit with Amilcar O.)

**Paul McDonald**

procedural attestation vs narrative reconstruction; three-way separation; temporal recognition lag

**Ralph Cavallaro**

intent-to-runtime traceability

**Ryan Stacey**

attestation does not transfer (re-admissibility at propagation)

**Shay L.**

endogenous vs exogenous constraint locus

**Simon Narcis Secu**

effects accumulating through interaction; timing as part of the control surface

**Steven Hensley**

Authority Migration failure mode (co-credit with F. Zafar)

**Tim Zlomke**

Hindsight Reconstruction failure mode; Continuity Without Coherence failure mode; shared synchronization substrate

**Violeta Klein**

Regulatory Arbitrage failure mode

**Yuan Gao**

Stale Admissibility failure mode (GER-305)

## References

Published works that informed specific GER codes. The authors of these works did not personally engage with SVRNOS; their work is cited as a reference, distinct from the contributors above who directly contributed framings.

* **Chen, K., Afroogh, S., Murali, A., Atkinson, D., Dhurandhar, A., Jiao, J.** (2025). *LLM Harms: A Taxonomy and Discussion.* arXiv:2512.05929v2. [https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05929](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05929) — informed GER-344 and GER-346.

* **Fulgu, R. A. & Capraro, V.** (2024). *Surprising gender biases in GPT.* Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 16. — informed GER-342 and GER-343.