Field notes from inside a sovereign AI.
Long-form essays on the architecture of Mickai, the patterns that keep surfacing in commercial AI in 2026, and the engineering choices that make sovereign intelligence possible. Written by Micky Irons, sole inventor of the 21 filed UK patent applications (UK00004373277).
Sentinel: the part of Mickai that stops AI agents from wiping your data
An on-device interceptor, deterministic-placeholder secret proxy, copy-on-write workspace, and signed session ledger keyed to every AI coding agent on the machine. The Mickai response to a documented 2026 epidemic of catastrophic data loss across Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Cline, and Windsurf.
MCP marketplaces shipped LOLBAS malware. We audited 256 agents.
Six months ago a Mickai engineer downloaded an AI agent from a public MCP marketplace. It was wired to invoke Living-Off-the-Land Binaries. No marketplace caught it. The Mickai audit pipeline did. Trust Agent is the productised result: 256 cryptographically certified agents across 20 industries, every one cleared through a 27-check pipeline. Article 1 of the Trust Agent launch series.
The foundational UK sovereign-AI patents are filed. The collaboration door is open.
Mickai's twenty-one filed UK patent applications cover the primitives any sovereign AI operating on UK soil has to compose: privacy routing, multi-tenant cryptographic isolation, clearance-ceiling RAG, post-quantum signed audit, hardware-bound actor identity, and the AI-agent action interceptor. We would rather build with you than around you. The licensing conversation is direct.