Research
Papers, working drafts, and open-source tools from CARE.
The Cost of Governance: Measuring Overhead in Toggleable LLM Agent Safety Layers
7,504 live API calls. Three providers. Five governance configurations. The full safety stack adds 0.2 to 0.35 milliseconds. Token overhead: zero.
Beyond Cost-Quality: Privacy-Aware Routing for Local-to-Cloud LLM Escalation
A five-class architecture for classifying query sensitivity and routing to an admissible model set. PRISM is a related but distinct problem.
claw0: A Zero-Dependency Agent Governance Framework
A single-file Python agent implementing all five agentic patterns — tool use, ReAct, planning, reflection, multi-agent. No outside libraries.