# dalugoda.com: full publication index > A fuller, metadata-backed index of Siri Dalugoda's published essays, research, concepts, projects and notes. Follow each Markdown edition for the original article body and sources. This index is generated from the publication content registry. Summaries below are the article descriptions supplied with each record; no additional findings or claims are inferred here. Siri (Asiri) Dalugoda is a technology executive and researcher based in Auckland, New Zealand. He authored the HDP protocol, its IETF Internet-Draft and the Agentic Sprint methodology. This is his independent publication. He co-founded Helixar, where his AI security research and open-source work is published, and ONYX1, a job-management product for New Zealand trade businesses. HDP attribution: Human Delegation Provenance was designed by Siri Dalugoda within Helixar's research programme. The arXiv paper names Asiri Dalugoda as author. The protocol, specification and implementation are published and maintained through Helixar Limited. This publication does not claim personal ownership or describe HDP as an adopted IETF standard. ## Flagship works - [The Agentic Sprint](https://dalugoda.com/md/agentic-sprint): A human-gated operating model for autonomous software delivery. Published 2026-08-28. Type: Concept. Topics: Agentic Systems, Delivery & Organisations. - [Human Delegation Provenance](https://dalugoda.com/md/human-delegation-provenance): Credited research and open-specification work on keeping human authorisation verifiable across chains of autonomous agents. Published 2026-08-28. Type: Research. Topics: AI Governance & Security, Agentic Systems. Affiliation: Helixar research / open specification. - [Autonomous Loop](https://dalugoda.com/md/autonomous-loop): An open-source engineering experiment exploring resumable, verifiable and bounded autonomous software execution. Published 2026-08-28. Type: Project. Topics: Agentic Systems, Engineering. Includes an open-source implementation record. ## Research and projects ## Essays and notes - [The Agent Never Logged Off](https://dalugoda.com/md/persistent-ai-agent-authority): Persistent AI agents are about to break one of security's oldest assumptions, that activity has boundaries. A case for continuous agent authority, authority leases and memory provenance. Published 2026-08-30. Type: Concept. Topics: AI Governance & Security, Agentic Systems. - [Leadership isn’t about knowing; it’s about navigating](https://dalugoda.com/md/leadership-isnt-about-knowing-its-about-navigating): Leadership is less about having every answer and more about setting direction, listening well, and moving through uncertainty. Published 2025-12-12. Type: Essay. Topics: Delivery & Organisations. Originally published on LinkedIn; the local edition preserves the original date and source link. - [The momentum mindset: move, learn, adjust. Don’t wait for perfect](https://dalugoda.com/md/the-momentum-mindset): Teams create clarity by moving early, learning from evidence, and adjusting before small problems become large ones. Published 2025-11-24. Type: Essay. Topics: Delivery & Organisations, Engineering. Originally published on LinkedIn; the local edition preserves the original date and source link. - [Not every engineer can deliver every project](https://dalugoda.com/md/not-every-engineer-can-deliver-every-project): Software delivery improves when leaders match people’s strengths and working styles to the demands of each project. Published 2025-11-11. Type: Essay. Topics: Engineering, Delivery & Organisations. Originally published on LinkedIn; the local edition preserves the original date and source link. - [Growing up during war and chaos: how a generation learned to live on the edge](https://dalugoda.com/md/growing-up-during-war-and-chaos): A personal reflection on growing up in Sri Lanka during war, the 2004 tsunami, and the resilience and compassion those experiences shaped. Published 2025-05-16. Type: Essay. Topics: Notes & Experiments. Originally published on LinkedIn; the local edition preserves the original date and source link. - [Culture is how employees feel about Monday morning](https://dalugoda.com/md/culture-and-sunday-night-dread): A workplace culture can often be understood through how employees feel about returning to work on Monday morning. Published 2023-02-13. Type: Essay. Topics: Delivery & Organisations. Originally published on LinkedIn; the local edition preserves the original date and source link. - [Good vibes only: toxic positivity at work](https://dalugoda.com/md/good-vibes-only-toxic-positivity-at-work): Genuine optimism makes room for difficult emotions; toxic positivity asks people to hide them. Published 2023-01-22. Type: Essay. Topics: Delivery & Organisations. Originally published on LinkedIn; the local edition preserves the original date and source link. - [Diversity in tech firms: the challenges](https://dalugoda.com/md/diversity-in-tech-firms-and-challenges): Diverse teams bring different perspectives to software work, but inclusion requires deliberate attention to communication, bias, culture, and management. Published 2023-01-11. Type: Essay. Topics: Delivery & Organisations. Originally published on LinkedIn; the local edition preserves the original date and source link. - [Everyone here is so much smarter than me. I got here by luck.](https://dalugoda.com/md/everyone-here-is-so-much-smarter-than-me): A personal note about impostor syndrome, self-doubt, and recognising the work behind our achievements. Published 2020-02-28. Type: Essay. Topics: Delivery & Organisations, Notes & Experiments. Originally published on LinkedIn; the local edition preserves the original date and source link. ## Agentic Sprint methodology The methodology is published in full at https://theagenticsprint.com, with its own retrieval index at https://theagenticsprint.com/llms-full.txt. This site keeps the introductory essay and the Autonomous Loop project record. ## Publication records - [Google Scholar profile](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T6qJcHUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao): Research and publication records for Siri Dalugoda. - [HDP paper on arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04522): The paper naming Asiri Dalugoda as author. - [HDP IETF record](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-helixar-hdp-agentic-delegation/): The active Internet-Draft record. - [HDP canonical research](https://helixar.ai/about/labs/hdp/): Helixar's research and open-specification record. - [Helixar research index](https://helixar.ai/research/): Related research published by Helixar. - [Helixar open-source organisation](https://github.com/Helixar-AI): HDP, Sentinel, ReleaseGuard, the MCP security checklist, Unpinched and Helixar MCP. - [ONYX1](https://onyx1.co.nz/): Operational job-management software for New Zealand trade businesses. - [GitHub profile](https://github.com/asiridalugoda): Public source repositories associated with Siri Dalugoda.