Purpose and stewardship
A shared model worth challenging
Maneuver Calculus is an emerging open research project for describing security behavior and defensive reasoning. Its principal author is Jacob Schorr.
The problem the project takes seriously
Security work produces many useful local descriptions: alerts, vulnerabilities, threat reports, control assessments and test outcomes. Joining those descriptions does not automatically explain what can happen, which conditions matter, or what a defensive change will actually alter.
MC explores a shared behavioral model in which evidence, state, mechanisms and defensive interventions can be related without flattening their differences. Claims should carry their scope and uncertainty, and disagreement should give the model a way to improve.
Current project identity
Foundational scientific and architectural decisions remain author-led. Jacob Schorr is the principal author and current steward. A public contributor register, durable governance charter and independent decision process remain to be established.
The project is intended to grow beyond its original author. That intention is expressed as a progression from author-led discovery to maintainer-led stewardship and durable open governance. It is a direction for institutional development, not a claim that those later arrangements already exist.
Shared foundations, broad participation
MC's intended foundations are free and open to inspection, implementation and challenge. They should benefit people worldwide and remain independent of control by any one vendor. Commercial products, services and economic development are welcome parts of that future.
The Our principles section sets out that direction together with present stewardship and licensing limits. The examples and source summaries remain development work, with known failures and separate version identities.
Find your next answer
- Our principles — openness, worldwide benefit, commercial participation and responsibility.
- Common questions — what you can use, how to cite it and what is still in development.
- Project history — dated source records, decisions and limitations.
- Research — hypotheses, evidence and unresolved questions.
- Contribution paths — improve evidence, analysis, theory or tooling.
Editorial review: 19 October 2026. The project identity and implementation evidence retain their dated sources; the governance path remains intended.