PLATFORM / IMPLEMENTATION LAYER

One machine underneath four control systems.

Kairos Core is the reusable implementation layer beneath Invariant, Context Passport, Valence, and Lightcone. It generalizes research-control patterns developed in XGCS systems into shared state, evidence, lineage, deployment, and authorization machinery. Domain Packs hold what is specific to one industry. Core is not a fifth public product family.

AUTHORITY MODEL / 02

Deployment is a monitored state, not a finish line.

System
Kairos Core
Status
PRODUCTIZING. The diagram below is a schematic.
Customer data
None shown
01Proposed02Researching03Historically supported04Forward observation05Decision-eligible06Approved07Deployed08Monitored09Rejected10Retest11Degraded12Suspended13Retired
01 / 08Proposed

A bounded claim enters with intended use, source, and stop conditions.

AUTHORITY / NONE
AUTHORITY INCREASES ONLY THROUGH EXPLICIT STATE

This is a specified Kairos Core governance model. It does not represent live customers, deployed models, or operational telemetry. Historical support, forward observation, shadow, paper and live are deliberately distinct states here; nothing in this system collapses them into "validated".

A claim progresses from proposed through research, historical support, forward observation, decision eligibility, approval, deployment, and monitoring. Deployment is itself three separately authorized states: shadow, then paper, then live. Rejection and underpowered evidence can return to retesting. Monitoring can degrade, suspend, or retire a deployed system.

  1. 01

    Source World

    Authorized data with provenance, policy labels, and effective-time / available-time / ingest-time semantics.

  2. 02

    Evidence Membrane

    Canonicalize what the system may know before candidate generation begins.

  3. 03

    DecisionSpec

    Compile the target, information set, objective, constraints, baselines, evidence requirements, authority, and stop conditions.

  4. 04

    Evolutionary Research Engine

    Generate, mutate, recombine, cull, revive, and preserve diverse candidate systems across representations.

    NULL COMPASSnegative knowledgeREFEREEfalsificationQD ARCHIVEdiversity memory
  5. 05

    Forward Observer

    Freeze survivors and accumulate prospective evidence. Historical success cannot silently substitute for forward behavior.

  6. 06

    Decision State Machine

    Separate finding outcome, evidence maturity, and advancement authority across reject, retest, observe, advance, suspend, and retire.

  7. 07

    Action Gateway

    Recommendations and external execution remain separate permissions. Consequential action is explicitly authorized.

MODEL ROUTING / BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

No foundation-model provider is the evidence authority.

LOCAL_ONLY

Sensitive work stays local.

Customer-controlled inference and storage for data and tasks that must not leave the local trust boundary.

PRIVATE_ALLOWED

Approved private infrastructure.

Local models plus approved private-cloud services inside the organization's policy boundary.

FRONTIER_ALLOWED

Frontier capability, selectively routed.

Permitted providers may support approved tasks without becoming the system of record, evidence authority, or owner of the customer's sensitive context.