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AI and Agentic Systems Field Guides 14

  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0001

    AI Model Architecture and Capability Foundations

    A foundation-to-frontier guide covering tensors, representation learning, transformers, attention, encoders, decoders, mixture-of-experts, diffusion, state-space and recurrent alternatives, multimodality, scaling, capability boundaries, and architecture evaluation.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0002

    AI Model and Agent Evaluation Engineering

    A rigorous evaluation guide covering capability, quality, safety, robustness, calibration, agents, tools, long-horizon tasks, datasets, contamination, judges, human studies, performance, cost, regression, and decision-focused reporting.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0003

    Local Models On Device Inference and Sovereign AI

    A local-first AI guide covering model acquisition, licensing, hardware sizing, GGUF, runtimes, accelerators, offline operation, privacy, sovereign controls, model lifecycle, evaluation, updates, and hybrid routing.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0004

    Inference Serving Quantization KV Cache and Throughput Engineering

    A production inference guide covering serving architecture, tokenization, prefill, decoding, batching, scheduling, KV caches, quantization, parallelism, speculative decoding, autoscaling, SLOs, observability, cost, and failure recovery.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0005

    Fine Tuning Alignment Synthetic Data and Training Governance

    A training and post-training guide covering objectives, datasets, SFT, PEFT, LoRA, QLoRA, preferences, DPO, reward models, synthetic data, curriculum, distributed training, evaluation, safety, provenance, release, and rollback.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0006

    Multimodal AI Vision Voice and Realtime Interaction

    A multimodal systems guide covering image, document, audio, speech, video, fusion, grounding, realtime streaming, voice activity, turn-taking, latency, accessibility, privacy, safety, and multimodal evaluation.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0007

    Context Engineering Token Management and Trajectory Compaction

    A context-systems guide covering tokenization, context budgets, prompt anatomy, relevance, long context, position effects, caches, summaries, compaction, trajectory records, working sets, multi-agent context, security, and evaluation.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0008

    Knowledge RAG Memory Grounding and Source Authority

    A grounded AI guide covering knowledge ingestion, parsing, chunking, embeddings, lexical and dense retrieval, reranking, graph retrieval, citations, memory tiers, source authority, freshness, access control, evaluation, and lifecycle.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0009

    AI Tools Skills MCP Plugins and Capability Security

    A capability integration guide covering tools, functions, skills, plugins, MCP clients and servers, resources, prompts, transports, authorization, schemas, discovery, sandboxing, capability policy, supply chain, observability, evaluation, and incident response.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0010

    Agent Harnesses Multi Harness Fabrics and Runtime Isolation

    A frontier runtime guide defining agent harnesses as governed execution authorities and multi-harness fabrics as distributed systems for routing missions across isolated workspaces, tools, models, credentials, memory, sandboxes, and evidence planes.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0011

    Multi Agent and Multi Model Parallelism

    A frontier guide to extreme parallel agent systems: task graphs, role arrays, model portfolios, speculative branches, supervisors, distributed scheduling, context partitioning, consensus, verification, failure isolation, budgets, and scalable fan-in.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0012

    AI Safety Alignment Red Teaming Sycophancy and Control

    A practical-to-frontier safety guide covering risk governance, objective and instruction alignment, sycophancy, reward hacking, deceptive behavior, prompt injection, tool misuse, memory poisoning, red teaming, control architectures, human oversight, monitoring, and incident response.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0013

    AI and Agent Observability Evidence and Evaluation Telemetry

    A complete observability and evidence guide for models and agents covering semantic telemetry, traces, mission graphs, model calls, tokens, context, retrieval, memory, tools, approvals, artifacts, evaluations, costs, privacy, replay, and assurance.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-AI-0014

    Agentic Software Engineering and Autonomous Development Workflows

    A frontier software-delivery guide covering autonomous requirements analysis, repository understanding, architecture, planning, coding, test generation, review, debugging, documentation, release, maintenance, multi-harness workflows, and verified completion.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF

Cloud and Platform Field Guides 8

  • MYTHOS-FG-CLD-0001

    Public Private Hybrid and Sovereign Cloud Foundations

    A cloud-foundations guide covering service and deployment models, landing zones, identity, networking, data, security, operations, resilience, hybrid integration, sovereignty, FinOps, portability, and cloud exit.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-CLD-0002

    Kubernetes Controllers Operators and Cluster Engineering

    A complete Kubernetes engineering guide covering API machinery, desired state, controllers, CRDs, operators, scheduling, nodes, networking, storage, security, upgrades, multi-cluster operations, batch and AI workloads, and cluster assurance.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-CLD-0003

    Internal Developer Platforms GitOps and Policy as Code

    A platform-engineering guide covering platform-as-product, developer portals, catalogs, golden paths, control planes, self-service APIs, Crossplane, GitOps, Argo CD, Flux, policy as code, OPA, Kyverno, provenance, observability, adoption, and governance.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-CLD-0004

    Serverless Event Driven and Function Architecture

    A serverless and event-driven engineering guide covering functions, scale-to-zero, event contracts, CloudEvents, brokers, queues, streams, workflows, idempotency, state, cold starts, observability, security, cost, and portability.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-CLD-0005

    Service Mesh API Gateway and East West Traffic Engineering

    A traffic-platform guide covering gateways, proxies, service mesh, Gateway API, Envoy, Istio, workload identity, mTLS, routing, resilience, policy, telemetry, ambient and sidecar architectures, multi-cluster, egress, and emerging agent-aware gateways.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-CLD-0006

    Durable Workflows Queues Streams and Sagas

    A distributed-execution guide covering durable workflows, activity execution, queues, brokers, event streams, delivery guarantees, timers, signals, idempotency, transactions, sagas, compensation, replay, testing, observability, and failure recovery.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-CLD-0007

    Edge Computing Remote Sites and Distributed Control Planes

    An edge-systems guide covering remote-site architecture, fog and MEC models, autonomous local operation, distributed control planes, intermittent links, fleet lifecycle, data locality, security, observability, failover, synchronization, and recovery.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-CLD-0008

    DePIN and Verifiable Distributed Infrastructure

    A critical engineering guide to decentralized physical infrastructure networks, including participants, resources, incentives, identity, attestations, verifiable service, coordination, ledgers, privacy, economics, governance, attacks, and adoption limits.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF

Data, State, and Reliability Field Guides 7

  • MYTHOS-FG-DAT-0001

    Relational, Document, Graph, Vector, and Time-Series Databases

    A database engineering guide comparing data models, transactions, indexing, query planning, replication, sharding, search, vector similarity, temporal data, operations, and polyglot persistence.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-DAT-0002

    State Modeling, Event Sourcing, CQRS, and Durable State Machines

    A state-engineering guide covering domain state, invariants, state machines, events, event sourcing, projections, CQRS, commands, concurrency, snapshots, durable execution, compensation, migration, and verification.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-DAT-0003

    Storage, Search, Backup, Archival, and Recovery

    A data-protection guide covering block, file, object, checksummed storage, indexing and search, lifecycle tiers, snapshots, backups, immutability, archives, retention, restore, disaster recovery, ransomware resilience, and evidence.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-DAT-0004

    OpenTelemetry, Semantic Conventions, and Observability Pipelines

    An observability-engineering guide covering telemetry design, resources, traces, metrics, logs, events, baggage, semantic conventions, OTLP, collector pipelines, sampling, enrichment, routing, storage, privacy, reliability, and governance.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-DAT-0005

    SRE, SLOs, Error Budgets, Capacity, and Reliability Engineering

    A site-reliability guide covering user-centered reliability, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, risk, toil, capacity, performance, alerting, incidents, change safety, resilience testing, disaster recovery, and reliability governance.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-DAT-0006

    Tamper-Evident Evidence, Provenance, and Audit Systems

    An evidence-engineering guide covering event identity, provenance, signed statements, hash chains, Merkle logs, transparency services, receipts, attestations, audit trails, time, custody, privacy, verification, retention, and incident use.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-DAT-0007

    Data Sovereignty, Privacy, Local-First Synchronization, and Egress

    A data-control guide covering sovereignty, privacy engineering, data mapping, local-first architecture, offline-first state, CRDTs, synchronization, access control, key ownership, egress policy, deletion, cross-border flows, and user agency.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF

Frontier Technology Field Guides 10

  • MYTHOS-FG-FRONTIER-0001

    Quantum Computing Foundations and Hybrid Algorithms

    A foundation-to-frontier engineering guide to quantum information, circuits, algorithms, hardware modalities, noise, error mitigation, hybrid execution, verification, benchmarking, and responsible adoption.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-FRONTIER-0002

    Quantum Networking QKD Entanglement and Repeaters

    A rigorous quantum-network engineering guide covering photonic qubits, entanglement distribution, QKD, quantum memories, repeaters, routing, control planes, coexistence, security limitations, verification, and readiness.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-FRONTIER-0003

    Silicon Photonics Co Packaged Optics and Photonic Interconnects

    An engineering guide to integrated photonics, silicon photonics, optical engines, co-packaged and near-package optics, external lasers, coherent and direct-detect interconnects, management, reliability, AI fabrics, and photonic-compute frontiers.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-FRONTIER-0004

    Neuromorphic Computing Spiking Systems and NPUs

    A guide to event-driven neural computation, spiking models, neuromorphic hardware, Loihi-class systems, Lava, learning rules, sensors, NPUs, workload mapping, benchmarking, and adoption limitations.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-FRONTIER-0005

    Robotics Physical AI Simulation and Autonomous Fleets

    A full robotics and physical-AI guide covering ROS 2, perception, localization, planning, control, simulation, digital twins, safety, fleet coordination, Open-RMF, learning systems, operations, and human oversight.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-FRONTIER-0006

    Sovereign Air Gapped and Offline First Systems

    An engineering guide to sovereign control, true and partial air gaps, disconnected operations, local-first applications, secure transfer, update supply chains, trust anchors, observability, synchronization, recovery, and governance.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-FRONTIER-0007

    WebAssembly WASI Edge Sandboxing and Portable Compute

    A modern WebAssembly guide covering core modules, validation, linear memory, the Component Model, WIT, canonical ABI, WASI 0.2 and 0.3, native async, capability security, Wasmtime, language tooling, edge deployment, performance, and supply-chain assurance.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-FRONTIER-0008

    WebGPU Browser Local Compute and High Performance Web Systems

    A WebGPU and browser-compute engineering guide covering adapters, devices, resources, WGSL, rendering, compute, synchronization, performance, browser-local AI, WebNN interoperability, security, privacy, debugging, deployment, and progressive enhancement.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-FRONTIER-0009

    Human in the Loop Approval Operational UX and AI Presence

    A human-centered operational UX guide covering approval architecture, automation states, evidence, uncertainty, dense technical interfaces, voice and multimodal presence, multi-monitor and spatial workflows, accessibility, trust calibration, evaluation, and governance.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-FRONTIER-0010

    5G Advanced 6G NTN Integrated Sensing and Future Networks

    A future-network engineering guide covering 5G-Advanced Release 19, radio and core evolution, slicing, edge, AI-native operations, non-terrestrial networks, direct-to-device, integrated sensing and communication, IMT-2030, transport, timing, security, and readiness.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF

Network Engineering Field Guides 22

  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0001

    Packet Flow, Encapsulation, and OSI Troubleshooting

    A practical packet-centered guide that teaches engineers to trace communication from application intent through transport, IP, link, physical transmission, middleboxes, return paths, and evidence-driven troubleshooting.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0002

    Ethernet Switching, VLANs, STP, MLAG, and Layer-2 Resilience

    A comprehensive Layer-2 engineering guide covering Ethernet forwarding, VLAN segmentation, spanning tree, link aggregation, multichassis designs, loop prevention, failure behavior, security, observability, and migration toward EVPN fabrics.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0003

    IPv4, IPv6, Addressing, Subnetting, and Neighbor Discovery

    An addressing and host-forwarding guide that develops IPv4 and IPv6 fluency from binary prefix math through allocation, subnetting, ARP, Neighbor Discovery, SLAAC, DHCPv6, dual stack, transition, security, and operations.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0004

    OSPF Architecture, Design, Operations, and Troubleshooting

    A complete OSPF engineering guide covering link-state theory, packets, neighbors, LSAs, areas, SPF, summarization, convergence, authentication, BFD, redistribution, operations, and packet-level troubleshooting for OSPFv2 and OSPFv3.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0005

    BGP Architecture, Policy, Scale, Security, and Troubleshooting

    A policy-centered BGP guide covering path-vector operation, sessions, attributes, selection, route policy, communities, route reflection, multiprotocol families, convergence, RPKI, filtering, telemetry, scale, and incident troubleshooting.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0006

    MPLS, L3VPN, Traffic Engineering, and Service Provider Foundations

    A service-provider and enterprise MPLS guide covering labels, forwarding equivalence classes, LDP, BGP labeled services, L3VPNs, route distinguishers and targets, RSVP-TE, entropy, OAM, QoS, resilience, and migration.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0007

    Segment Routing, SR-MPLS, and SRv6 Engineering

    A modern transport guide covering segment-routing architecture, SRGB and SIDs, SR-MPLS, SRv6, network programming, SR Policies, steering, PCE and BGP control, TI-LFA, security, telemetry, interworking, and migration.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0008

    Quality of Service, Classification, Queuing, and Capacity Engineering

    An end-to-end QoS and capacity guide covering application requirements, classification, marking, trust, policing, shaping, queuing, scheduling, congestion avoidance, ECN, wireless and WAN behavior, telemetry, testing, and capacity planning.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0009

    Multicast Engineering with IGMP, PIM, and Anycast RP

    A multicast engineering guide covering addressing, receiver signaling, IGMPv3, MLD, PIM-SM, shared and shortest-path trees, rendezvous points, Anycast RP, source-specific multicast, Layer-2 snooping, security, operations, and troubleshooting.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0010

    DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management Engineering

    A DDI engineering guide covering authoritative and recursive DNS, resolution, zones, DNSSEC, encrypted DNS, DHCPv4, DHCPv6, relay, high availability, IPAM, source-of-truth integration, automation, security, observability, and recovery.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0011

    Enterprise Campus and Branch Network Engineering

    A complete campus and branch engineering guide spanning requirements, hierarchical and fabric designs, wired and wireless access, routing, identity, WAN edge, resiliency, operations, automation, lifecycle, and transition toward intent-driven architectures.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0012

    Data-Center Networking, EVPN/VXLAN, and Fabric Architecture

    An implementation-grade data-center networking guide covering leaf-spine fabrics, underlays, BGP EVPN, VXLAN, distributed gateways, multitenancy, multihoming, routing, DCI, automation, telemetry, security, capacity, and failure assurance.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0013

    Enterprise Wireless and RF Engineering

    A comprehensive WLAN and RF guide spanning electromagnetic foundations, 802.11 MAC and PHY behavior, Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7, design, surveys, roaming, authentication, capacity, troubleshooting, automation, sensing, and lifecycle.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0014

    802.1X, RADIUS, NAC, and Device Profiling

    A full identity-aware access guide covering 802.1X, EAP, RADIUS, certificates, wired and wireless enforcement, profiling, posture, guest and IoT onboarding, dynamic policy, high availability, troubleshooting, telemetry, and zero-trust evolution.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0015

    WAN, SD-WAN, SASE, and Private Networking

    A complete WAN and secure-access guide covering transport, overlays, SD-WAN architecture, path selection, application policy, routing, internet and cloud connectivity, SASE and SSE integration, zero trust, remote access, observability, resilience, and migration.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0016

    Network Automation with Python, Go, Rust, and Ansible

    An extensive automation engineering guide covering requirements, data models, APIs, NETCONF, RESTCONF, gNMI, Python, Go, Rust, Ansible, idempotency, concurrency, testing, transactions, rollout, rollback, observability, security, and agent-assisted workflows.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0017

    Network Source of Truth, Intent, and Drift Reconciliation

    A governance and implementation guide for network source of truth, normalized intent, inventory, topology, addressing, services, lifecycle, discovery, reconciliation, drift, approvals, APIs, and evidence-driven automation.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0018

    Network Digital Twins, Simulation, and Pre-Change Verification

    A rigorous network-verification guide covering twin scope, models, configuration analysis, reachability, policy, simulation, emulation, traffic generation, differential testing, failure injection, confidence, CI integration, and decision evidence.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0019

    Streaming Telemetry, gNMI, OpenTelemetry, and Network Observability

    A complete network observability guide covering telemetry architecture, YANG-Push, gNMI, OpenConfig, metrics, logs, events, traces, OpenTelemetry, collectors, schemas, time, cardinality, storage, SLOs, anomaly detection, security, and troubleshooting.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0020

    Packet Capture, Wireshark, tcpdump, and Protocol Forensics

    A deep packet-evidence guide covering capture planning, observation points, tcpdump and capture filters, Wireshark display analysis, TCP, UDP, DNS, TLS, routing, wireless, tunnels, performance, security, forensics, evidence integrity, automation, and encrypted-network limitations.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0021

    Optical Networking, DWDM, Coherent Transport, and Photonic Evolution

    A practical-to-frontier optical networking guide covering fiber propagation, optical budgets, transceivers, CWDM and DWDM, ROADMs, amplification, coherent modulation, DSP, OTN, 400ZR and 800ZR, telemetry, failure isolation, planning, automation, and photonic evolution.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-NET-0022

    5G-Advanced, 6G, RAN, Core, Slicing, and Transport

    A present-to-frontier mobile-network guide covering NR and NG-RAN, standalone core, service-based architecture, user and control planes, QoS, slicing, edge, private 5G, O-RAN, observability, 5G-Advanced Release 18 and 19, Release 20 studies, IMT-2030, NTN, integrated sensing, and AI-native operations.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF

Cybersecurity Field Guides 19

  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0001

    Threat Modeling and Security Architecture

    A system-level threat-modeling and security-architecture guide covering assets, data flows, trust boundaries, actors, attack surfaces, abuse cases, STRIDE-style analysis, attack trees, adversary behavior, control selection, residual risk, architecture review, verification, and living-model governance.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0002

    Zero-Trust Architecture and Continuous Authorization

    A zero-trust engineering guide covering policy decision and enforcement, identity, devices, workloads, networks, applications, data, telemetry, continuous evaluation, microsegmentation, SASE, service identity, hybrid cloud, failure design, migration, maturity, and operational assurance.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0003

    Enterprise Firewall Engineering and Policy Architecture

    A vendor-neutral enterprise firewall guide covering packet flow, sessions, zones, policy evaluation, objects, NAT, application and identity controls, TLS inspection, clustering, routing, virtual systems, cloud enforcement, policy lifecycle, automation, telemetry, performance, troubleshooting, and blast-radius control.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0004

    IPsec, TLS VPN, Remote Access, and Tunnel Troubleshooting

    A tunnel and remote-access guide covering IPsec architecture, IKEv2, ESP, SAs, traffic selectors, NAT traversal, certificates, routing, policy, TLS VPN, client posture, split tunneling, clustering, mobility, MTU, observability, packet troubleshooting, and hybrid post-quantum transition.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0005

    Microsegmentation, Workload Isolation, and East-West Security

    A microsegmentation guide covering workload identity, policy models, distributed enforcement, host and hypervisor controls, Kubernetes network policy, service mesh, east-west traffic, dependencies, brownfield adoption, policy testing, observability, failure containment, and zero-trust integration.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0006

    Identity, Access, PKI, Secrets, and Privileged Access Engineering

    An identity-security engineering guide covering proofing, directories, authentication, passkeys, federation, OAuth and OIDC, authorization, PKI, certificates, workload identity, secrets, key management, privileged access, non-human and agent identity, lifecycle, recovery, monitoring, and post-quantum readiness.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0007

    Vulnerability, Exposure, and Attack-Surface Management

    A vulnerability and exposure guide covering asset authority, discovery, scanning, CVE and product data, CVSS v4.0, KEV, SSVC, exploitability, attack paths, business context, remediation, mitigation, exceptions, patching, cloud and application exposures, external attack surface, validation, metrics, automation, and governance.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0008

    SIEM Architecture, Log Engineering, and Security Analytics

    A SIEM and analytics guide covering logging strategy, source onboarding, collection, time, parsing, schemas, normalization, enrichment, storage, search, correlation, detection, UEBA, hunting, evidence, privacy, integrity, performance, cost, cloud architecture, engineering lifecycle, incident operations, and AI-assisted analytics.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0009

    SOAR, Case Management, and Security Workflow Automation

    A security-orchestration guide covering operating models, alert and case lifecycle, evidence, machine-readable playbooks, integrations, safe actions, approvals, automation testing, metrics, failure recovery, and governed AI-assisted response.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0010

    Detection Engineering and Detection-as-Code

    A detection-engineering guide covering hypotheses, data requirements, ATT&CK-informed coverage, event semantics, Sigma, analytics, correlation, testing, version control, deployment, observability, tuning, retirement, and AI-assisted detection development.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0011

    Threat Hunting and Adversary-Informed Investigation

    A threat-hunting guide covering hunt strategy, adversary behavior, intelligence, hypotheses, telemetry, endpoint, network, identity, cloud, timelines, graph analysis, findings, operationalization, metrics, and governed AI-assisted investigation.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0012

    Incident Response, Forensics, and Recovery Engineering

    An incident-response and recovery guide covering preparation, triage, command, containment, evidence, forensics, scoping, eradication, recovery, crisis communication, legal and privacy coordination, exercises, automation, and continuous improvement.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0013

    Application, API, and Web Security Engineering

    An application-security guide covering secure architecture, browser and web controls, APIs, authentication, authorization, sessions, input and output, cryptography, data, business logic, abuse resistance, testing, verification, deployment, monitoring, and incident readiness.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0014

    Software and AI Supply-Chain Security

    A software and AI supply-chain guide covering source, dependencies, build systems, CI/CD, provenance, signing, SBOMs, VEX, model and dataset lineage, release, distribution, updates, suppliers, validation, incident response, and governed automation.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0015

    Cloud, Container, Kubernetes, and Workload Security

    A cloud-native security guide covering shared responsibility, cloud identity, network and data controls, containers, images, registries, Kubernetes control plane, nodes, admission, pod security, workload identity, network policy, secrets, runtime defense, observability, incident response, and confidential workloads.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0016

    Applied Cryptography, PKI, and Key Management

    An applied cryptography guide covering security goals, randomness, symmetric encryption, hashes, MACs, KDFs, public-key cryptography, signatures, key establishment, protocols, PKI, certificates, HSMs, FIPS 140-3, key lifecycle, crypto agility, testing, and implementation failures.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0017

    Post-Quantum Cryptography Implementation and Migration

    A post-quantum implementation and migration guide covering quantum risk, cryptographic discovery, FIPS 203/204/205, KEM use, signatures, hybrid protocols, PKI, code signing, data protection, performance, interoperability, testing, vendors, governance, and phased enterprise transition.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0018

    Confidential Computing, TEEs, Attestation, FHE, and ZKP

    An advanced assurance and privacy-enhancing cryptography guide covering trusted execution environments, data-in-use protection, threat models, remote attestation, RATS, EAT, key release, confidential containers and AI, multi-party data collaboration, fully homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, integration, performance, governance, and adoption limits.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SEC-0019

    Offensive Security, Penetration Testing, and Control Validation

    A governed offensive-security guide covering authorization, scoping, rules of engagement, attack-surface analysis, vulnerability validation, adversary emulation, web, API, cloud, identity, network, wireless, application, social and physical boundaries, control testing, evidence, reporting, remediation, retesting, and safe automation.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF

Software Engineering Field Guides 20

  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0001

    Software Requirements, Specifications, and Acceptance Criteria

    A requirements-engineering guide covering stakeholder needs, system and software requirements, product discovery, domain language, functional and quality requirements, constraints, interfaces, use cases, scenarios, normative specifications, acceptance criteria, traceability, change control, validation, and specification-driven development with human and AI implementers.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0002

    Software Architecture, Modularity, and Domain-Driven Design

    A software-architecture guide covering architectural drivers, views and viewpoints, modularity, coupling and cohesion, domain-driven design, bounded contexts, dependency direction, monoliths, services, events, plugins, data ownership, architecture decisions, evolutionary design, governance, fitness functions, and architecture recovery.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0003

    API Design, Typed Contracts, Schemas, and Compatibility

    An API-engineering guide covering HTTP and message semantics, resource and operation design, typed contracts, OpenAPI 3.2, AsyncAPI 3.1, JSON Schema, Protocol Buffers, GraphQL, errors, identity, pagination, idempotency, compatibility, versioning, testing, gateways, observability, governance, and AI-consumable tool interfaces.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0004

    Error Architecture, Reliability, and Failure Semantics

    A reliability guide covering error taxonomies, typed failures, exceptions and results, fault containment, timeouts, retries, backpressure, overload, circuit breakers, idempotency, partial failure, degradation, recovery, observability, error budgets, resilience testing, and failure-safe API and workflow semantics.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0005

    Asynchronous Programming and Structured Concurrency

    A language-spanning guide to asynchronous programming, futures, tasks, event loops, reactors, goroutines, channels, async Rust, Python asyncio, structured concurrency, cancellation, deadlines, backpressure, synchronization, testing, observability, performance, and safe shutdown.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0006

    Distributed Systems, Consistency, Coordination, and Sagas

    A distributed-systems guide covering time, ordering, partial failure, replication, partitioning, consistency models, consensus, coordination, transactions, events, messaging, idempotency, sagas, compensation, reconciliation, observability, testing, multi-region design, and emerging verifiable or autonomous coordination.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0007

    Software Testing Strategy and Quality Engineering

    A quality-engineering guide covering test strategy, quality models, risk, levels and types, unit and component tests, integration, contract, system, acceptance, property, model-based, fuzz, mutation, performance, security, usability, accessibility, test data, environments, automation, flakiness, CI/CD, metrics, and AI-assisted testing.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0008

    Software Debugging, Diagnostics, and Root-Cause Analysis

    A debugging and diagnostics guide covering scientific troubleshooting, reproduction, state inspection, debuggers, traces, logs, metrics, dumps, memory and concurrency bugs, distributed debugging, production diagnostics, causal analysis, bisecting, incident timelines, postmortems, automation, and evidence-driven root-cause analysis.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0009

    Software Performance Engineering and Profiling

    A performance-engineering guide covering workload models, latency and throughput, queues, capacity, benchmarking, profiling, CPU, memory, I/O, databases, networks, concurrency, tail latency, load testing, optimization, regression prevention, hardware counters, energy, and cross-language toolchains for Rust, Python, Go, and systems software.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0010

    Secure Coding and Application Security Practices

    An implementation-centered secure-coding guide covering threat-informed design, trust boundaries, input and output handling, authentication and authorization, data protection, secrets, dependencies, concurrency, memory safety, error handling, secure defaults, testing, review, telemetry, incident readiness, and governed AI-assisted development.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0011

    Application Observability, Logging, Metrics, Tracing, and Diagnostics

    A production observability guide covering telemetry strategy, structured logs, metrics, traces, events, context propagation, semantic conventions, instrumentation, collectors, sampling, cardinality, storage, dashboards, SLOs, diagnostics, privacy, cost, resilience, testing, and profiling.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0012

    Build, Packaging, CI/CD, Release, and Supply-Chain Engineering

    A production delivery guide covering source and dependency control, build systems, hermeticity, caching, packaging, artifacts, container images, CI, testing gates, deployment, release strategies, provenance, signing, SBOMs, reproducibility, rollback, update security, and supply-chain incident response.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0013

    Code Review, Refactoring, Technical Debt, and Maintainability

    A maintainability engineering guide covering review objectives, change comprehension, correctness and security review, refactoring, characterization tests, technical-debt economics, architecture erosion, dependencies, readability, documentation, metrics, modernization, AI-generated code review, and sustainable improvement.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0014

    Advanced Async Rust, Tokio, Ownership, and Cancellation

    An advanced Rust concurrency guide covering futures, pinning, ownership across await points, Send and Sync, Tokio runtimes, tasks, structured task ownership, select, cancellation safety, channels, backpressure, locks, time, I/O, graceful shutdown, tracing, testing, debugging, profiling, and service architecture.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0015

    Unsafe Rust, FFI, Memory Models, and Safety Governance

    A low-level Rust guide covering unsafe contracts, raw pointers, aliasing, validity, initialization, layout, provenance, Send and Sync, atomics, FFI, callbacks, ownership transfer, panics, allocators, safe wrappers, testing with Miri and sanitizers, code review, documentation, supply-chain risk, and governance.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0016

    Type-Safe Python, Packaging, and Production Architecture

    A production Python guide covering project structure, pyproject.toml, environments, builds, distributions, type hints, protocols, generics, dataclasses, validation, dependency injection, configuration, errors, logging, testing, performance, native extensions, deployment, and maintainable application architecture.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0017

    Python Asyncio, Automation, and Concurrent Workflows

    An advanced Python concurrency and automation guide covering event loops, coroutines, tasks, TaskGroup, cancellation, timeouts, queues, semaphores, streams, subprocesses, thread and process bridges, automation workflows, retries, idempotency, rate limits, structured logging, testing, debugging, profiling, and graceful shutdown.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0018

    Go Concurrency, Contexts, Services, and Reliability

    An advanced Go guide covering goroutines, channels, ownership, the memory model, mutexes, atomics, contexts, deadlines, cancellation, services, HTTP, queues, worker pools, backpressure, retries, graceful shutdown, testing with race detection and synctest, profiling, observability, and production reliability.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0019

    Tauri, Svelte, TypeScript, and Secure Desktop Engineering

    A secure desktop application guide covering Tauri 2 architecture, Rust core, webview threat model, commands and IPC, capabilities and permissions, CSP, plugins, file and shell access, Svelte 5 reactivity, TypeScript 6 contracts, state, accessibility, testing, packaging, signing, updates, observability, performance, multi-window and multi-monitor behavior, and incident-ready desktop operations.

    Focused Field Guide 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FG-SWE-0020

    AI-Assisted Coding, Review, Testing, and Repository Workflows

    An implementation-grade guide to using coding models and agents across requirements, planning, repository understanding, implementation, review, testing, debugging, documentation, release, provenance, and verified completion.

    Focused Field Guide 55 pp PDF

Methods and Governance 1

  • MYTHOS-GOV-AUTH-0001

    Authority Mapping Lifecycle, Confidence, and Expiration Method

    Defines how external authorities are version-pinned, mapped, confidence-graded, expired, superseded, revalidated, and prevented from being misrepresented as certification or legal equivalence.

    Governance Method 11 pp PDF

Living Engineering Guides 22

  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-AGENT-0001

    Agentic Systems, Harnesses, Tools, Memory, and Multi-Agent Orchestration

    A comprehensive guide to designing, securing, operating, evaluating, and scaling agent runtimes, harness fabrics, tools, skills, MCP integrations, memory, context, planning, multi-agent teams, multi-model parallelism, governance, evidence, and recovery.

    Living Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-AI-0001

    Artificial Intelligence Engineering

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for enterprise ai and agentic systems engineering.

    Living Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-AIDEV-0001

    AI-Driven Software Development and Agentic Engineering

    A governed engineering guide to model selection, specification-driven development, repository context, coding agents, multi-agent workflows, testing, review, security, provenance, hallucination control, and verified completion.

    Canonical Living Overview Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-CLD-0001

    Enterprise Cloud Compute And Hardware Engineering Guide

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for enterprise cloud compute and hardware engineering.

    Engineering Guide 15 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-CYOPS-0001

    Cybersecurity Operations, Detection, Response, and Threat Hunting

    A comprehensive cyber-operations guide spanning SOC design, telemetry, SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, NDR, detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, evidence, recovery, and continuous improvement.

    Living Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-DAT-0001

    Data, State, Reliability, and Observability Engineering

    A comprehensive guide to data models, databases, authoritative state, event sourcing, CQRS, storage, search, backup, observability, SRE, evidence systems, privacy, sovereignty, and recovery.

    Canonical Living Overview Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-EDGE-0001

    Endpoint Edge OT IoT And Telecommunications Operations Guide

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for endpoint edge ot iot and telecommunications operations.

    Engineering Guide 15 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-EMT-0001

    Emerging Technology Research and Transition Guide

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for emerging compute sovereign ai photonics and neuromorphic systems engineering.

    Engineering Guide 15 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-GO-0001

    Go Engineering, Concurrent Services, and Cloud-Native Systems

    A production Go guide covering language idioms, packages, interfaces, goroutines, channels, contexts, service and API design, networking, Kubernetes controllers, testing, profiling, security, and operations.

    Canonical Living Overview Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-KDIL-0001

    Knowledge, Data, Identity, and Learning Governance Guide

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for knowledge data identity and learning governance.

    Living Guide 7 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-MEDIAWEB-0001

    Realtime Media And Browser Compute Engineering Guide

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for realtime media and browser compute engineering.

    Engineering Guide 15 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-NET-0001

    Network Engineering: Foundations, Architecture, Automation, and Future Networks

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for enterprise network engineering architecture and operations.

    Living Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-NETSEC-0001

    Network Security Engineering: Policy, Segmentation, Identity, and Resilience

    A practical and architectural guide to firewalls, zero trust, VPNs, identity-aware access, microsegmentation, secure routing, remote access, network detection, policy assurance, and resilient change.

    Living Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-NETSEC-0002

    Network And Security Engineering Library Guide

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for network and security engineering library.

    Engineering Guide 9 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-PQC-0001

    Modern Cryptography and Post-Quantum Migration

    A practical cryptographic engineering guide from primitives, protocols, PKI, HSMs, and key lifecycle through crypto-agility, NIST post-quantum standards, hybrid transition, protocol migration, inventory, testing, and long-lived data risk.

    Living Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-PY-0001

    Python Engineering, Automation, and AI Development

    A production-focused Python guide covering type safety, packaging, asyncio, automation, network engineering, APIs, data workflows, testing, observability, AI tooling, performance, security, and deployment.

    Canonical Living Overview Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-QTC-0001

    Quantum Technology and PQC Engineering Guide

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for quantum computing networking qkd and migration engineering.

    Engineering Guide 16 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-ROB-0001

    Robotics and Autonomous Systems Engineering Guide

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for physical ai robotics sensor fusion and autonomous fleet engineering.

    Engineering Guide 16 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-RUST-0001

    Rust Engineering and High-Performance Systems Development

    A deep Rust engineering guide covering ownership, lifetimes, traits, error architecture, async and Tokio, concurrency, unsafe governance, networking, testing, fuzzing, performance, workspaces, supply-chain controls, and Tauri backends.

    Canonical Living Overview Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-SEC-0001

    Security Engineering and Information Security

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for enterprise cybersecurity architecture and operations.

    Living Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-SWE-0001

    Software Engineering: Architecture, Quality, Testing, and Delivery

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for enterprise software and platform engineering.

    Canonical Living Overview Guide 47 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GUIDE-SWEPLT-0002

    Software, Platform, Data, And Reliability Library Guide

    Integrated engineering guide connecting the relevant Mythos standards, implementation patterns, operating procedures, architecture decisions, evidence expectations, and maturity path for software, platform, data, and reliability library.

    Engineering Guide 10 pp PDF

Library and Registry 3

  • MYTHOS-LIB-REG-0001

    Master Engineering Standards Library Registry

    Canonical registry of public Mythos publications, permanent IDs, statuses, series, routes, relationships, revision state, and lifecycle metadata.

    Library Registry 18 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-LIB-TAX-0001

    Engineering Standards Library Taxonomy

    Defines the permanent taxonomy, publication classes, series codes, naming rules, tags, audiences, relationships, assurance states, and web information architecture used across the library.

    Library Taxonomy 9 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-WEB-CAT-0001

    Web Publication Catalog and Information Architecture

    Defines the public website catalog, canonical routes, search facets, publication detail pages, accessibility requirements, structured metadata, redirects, integrity controls, and supersession behavior.

    Web Catalog 7 pp PDF

Candidate status describes publication review state. It does not establish certification, legal compliance, implementation conformance, benchmark reproduction, or product readiness.