# Research

Canonical: https://careinstitute.ai/research/
Published: 2026-03-01
Author: CARE Institute
Code licence: Apache 2.0 (https://github.com/CAREInst)

> Papers, working drafts, and open-source tools from CARE.

- [The Cost of Governance: Measuring Overhead in Toggleable LLM Agent Safety Layers](https://careinstitute.ai/research/cost-of-governance/) (2026-03-01 · Paper): How much time governance checks add to each API call. Measured results will follow an archived replication run.
- [Beyond Cost-Quality: Privacy-Aware Routing for Local-to-Cloud LLM Escalation](https://careinstitute.ai/research/privacy-routing/) (2026-02-15 · Paper): A five-class scheme for labelling how sensitive a request is, and routing it only to the set of models allowed to see it.
- [claw0: A Zero-Dependency Agent Governance Framework](https://careinstitute.ai/research/claw0/) (2026-01-20 · Paper): One Python file that runs all five common agent patterns: tool use, ReAct, planning, reflection, and multi-agent. It needs no outside libraries.