Charles Jones
callcharlie-ops
ActiveA governance Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that executes filed protocols rather than restating them — and refuses when the estate has moved since the ruling.
Model Context Protocol (MCP)OAuth 2.1Cloud RunBigQueryPython
Charles Jones
AI Platform Engineer · Marine EngineerPhillipsburg, NJcharlie@callcharlie.io
Available for work
Twenty years in engine rooms, seven building software — concurrent, not sequential.
I design and ship governance servers, agent runtimes, and static web platforms with a focus on proof and scale.
Provenance Engine
Read about the Provenance EngineProvenance Engine · preview
Governance for agents: measured, cited, verifiable.
The four figures below measure this estate's own governance — not the product. Each one names the instrument that produced it, and a figure that could not be measured reads ABSENT with its reason rather than zero.
Rulings filed
214
STALE — measured at 7152fb62, origin/main is 925dcf0c — as of 2026-09-11 19:20 UTC
Open debt rows
110
STALE — measured at 7152fb62, origin/main is 925dcf0c — as of 2026-09-11 19:20 UTC
Quotes verified / failed
272 / 0
STALE — measured at 7152fb62, origin/main is 925dcf0c — as of 2026-09-11 19:20 UTC
Last audit
2026-09-11
STALE — measured at 7152fb62, origin/main is 925dcf0c — as of 2026-09-11 19:20 UTC
Commits from 1 of 2 estate repositories, last 52 weeks — from git, not from GitHub. This grid is INCOMPLETE.Repositories counted: callcharlie-ops.NOT COUNTED — junelifeinsurance (junelife-drill-2026-08-01) — no .git. The total above is a floor, never the estate.
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The rulings, the debt rows and the commit stream are on /governance/.
SNAPSHOT 2026-09-11T19:20:28Z · tools/vitals_snapshot.py @ 1685abcf9f9fbeb2 · baked at build
Featured projects
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Ingenium
In progressAgent identity and agent governance built from contracts down — a cryptographic seal at genesis, append-only state, and a turn cycle that can refuse.
Agent runtimeCryptographic identityAppend-only state
WebMCP readiness
ActiveMaking an independent business site legible to AI agents on purpose. The platforms ship agent-readiness to businesses; almost nobody authors it themselves. That gap is the service.
WebMCPModel Context Protocol (MCP)Structured dataAstroStatic output
2026
Provenance Engine
In progressIndexes a corpus, computes a Merkle root over the document manifest, and returns a signed, tamper-evident receipt for an AI output: this span matches document X at offset Y, under corpus root R, at time T.
Merkle treeFM-index / suffix arrayCryptographic receiptsPythonRust
2026
Incident log
View allEntry 014 — Seven gates passed fifty of fifty, and none fetched the one page the message exists to send a person to
Every check on the outgoing email passed. The images loaded, the copy matched, the headers were right. Nobody asked whether the link in the middle of the message opened. Seventy-five businesses were sent a page that did not exist.
3 min read
Entry 013 — The gate refused correctly, named a cure, and the cheapest way to follow that cure switched the gate off
A refusal can be right in every particular and still do damage, if the remedy it recommends is one nobody tested. This one recommended a path that satisfied the check and silently restored the fault the check existed to prevent.
3 min read
Entry 012 — "All steps passed" printed two lines after two suites announced they had proved nothing
A written warning was added so a human reading the log could not mistake a skipped test for a passing one. The warning worked. The machine reading the same log saw only a zero.
2 min read
Entry 010 — The review gate counted a rejection as approval, and an example of the format as a real review
A new rule said certain changes need the other machine to review them first. The check that enforced it accepted three things that were not approval: a quoted example, an unsigned author, and a review that said do not merge this.
2 min read
By the numbers
- Pages in production
- 1,346,766
- Both platforms, live sitemap indexes counted 2026-08-08.
- MCP tools in production
- 52
- junelife-ops 31 + callcharlie-ops 21, counted 2026-09-03.
- Years engineering
- 20
- Chief engineer on yachts up to 180 feet, then cloud and code.
- Years software dev
- 7
- Building and running large websites and the tools that keep them honest.
Skills & technologies
Fluent / daily
TypeScript & JavaScript (Node)Astro / SSG architectureGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP) — Firebase Hosting, Firestore, Cloud Run, IAM, BigQuery, Cloud SchedulerClaude Code & agentic development toolchainsMCP server developmentEnterprise technical SEOStructured data / schemaHTML / CSS
Working proficiency · AI-directed
PythonSQL (BigQuery analytics in production)BashNetwork engineering (SD-WAN, Starlink, cybersecurity fundamentals — field-deployed)
AI platforms
Anthropic Claude (agents, MCP, evaluations)Google Gemini / Vertex AI (Agent SDK, Model Garden)
Practices
Manifest-verified deploysGated release pipelinesObservability & honest-failure instrumentationSecurity-first IAM (keyless service accounts, least privilege)
Let's build something
I'm open to interesting projects, collaborations, and consulting. Every way to reach me is on one page, each one labelled with what it is for.