---
"@context":
  asci: "https://amos.wavult.com/asci-9001/"
  cre: "https://amos.wavult.com/cre/"
  schema: "https://schema.org/"
"@type": TechnicalStandard
"@id": "https://amos.wavult.com/asci-9001-spec"
name: "ASCI-9001: Autonomous Sovereign Cognitive Infrastructure Standard"
version: 1.0-draft
status: Proposed Standard
issued: 2026-05-21
publisher:
  "@type": Organization
  name: Wavult Group
  url: "https://wavult.com"
coreAxioms:
- id: 2.1
  label: Permanent Epistemic Uncertainty
  statement: Epistemic uncertainty is permanent and irreducible in cognitive systems.
- id: 2.2
  label: Governance over Elimination
  statement: ASCI-9001 systems MUST implement governance of epistemic uncertainty rather than attempting elimination.
- id: 2.3
  label: Mathematical Attestation
  statement: Trust SHALL be established through mathematical attestation, not procedural attestation alone.
- id: 2.4
  label: Cognitive Sovereignty
  statement: Every reasoning step MUST be attributable, auditable, and reproducible within the same governance domain.
- id: 2.5
  label: Evidence-Grade Outputs
  statement: Outputs that inform decisions MUST carry provenance metadata sufficient for forensic reconstruction.
referenceArchitecture:
  layers:
  - id: 1
    name: Cognitive Execution
    equivalent: CPU/runtime
    analogous_to: CPU/runtime layer
  - id: 2
    name: Cognitive Hypervisor
    equivalent: Tolkserver
    analogous_to: VMware ESXi
  - id: 3
    name: Epistemic Ledger
    equivalent: GECL
    analogous_to: Hardware Root of Trust
  - id: 4
    name: Cognitive Forensics
    equivalent: TraceEngine+Quarantine
    analogous_to: CrowdStrike Falcon
  - id: 5
    name: Cognitive Service Mesh
    equivalent: CognitiveMesh
    analogous_to: Istio
complianceTiers:
- tier: 0
  name: Baseline
  layers:[]
  minimum: ISO 9001
  description: Organizational quality baseline. No ASCI-9001 cognitive layers required.
- tier: 1
  name: Cognitive Governance
  layers:
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  description: Minimal viable ASCI-9001. Cognitive execution with hypervisor and epistemic ledger.
- tier: 2
  name: Forensic Grade
  layers:
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  - 4
  description: Full forensic capability. Includes trace engine and quarantine.
- tier: 3
  name: Full Sovereign Stack
  layers:
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  - 4
  - 5
  description: Complete ASCI-9001 compliance. All 5 layers operational.
- tier: 4
  name: TÜV Certified Sovereign
  layers:
  - 1
  - 2
  - 3
  - 4
  - 5
  certification: TÜV+AirGap
  description: Third-party certified sovereign stack with air-gap capability.
cognitiveFailureTaxonomy:
- id: CFT-001
  name: FABRICATED_EVIDENCE
  severity: CRITICAL
  category: epistemic_forgery
  response: HALT_AND_ESCALATE
  description: Agent fabricates or cites non-existent evidence to support a conclusion.
- id: CFT-002
  name: POLICY_DEVIATION
  severity: CRITICAL
  category: governance_bypass
  response: REJECT_OUTPUT
  description: Agent output deviates from established governance policy without authorization.
- id: CFT-003
  name: AGENT_CASCADE_INSTABILITY
  severity: CRITICAL
  category: recursive_instability
  response: ISOLATE_ORIGINATOR
  description: Multi-agent cascade produces runaway recursive instability.
- id: CFT-004
  name: NON_CANONICAL_REASONING
  severity: HIGH
  category: reasoning_graph_divergence
  response: FREEZE_AND_REPLAY
  description: Agent reasoning graph diverges from canonical execution path.
- id: CFT-005
  name: INVALID_CONFIDENCE
  severity: HIGH
  category: probabilistic_mismatch
  response: REQUIRE_RECALCULATION
  description: Agent confidence scores are statistically inconsistent with evidence base.
- id: CFT-006
  name: SEMANTIC_CORRUPTION
  severity: HIGH
  category: latent_meaning_mutation
  response: FREEZE_AND_REVIEW
  description: Latent meaning mutation in semantic layer — output meaning diverges from intent.
- id: CFT-007
  name: CONTEXT_DRIFT
  severity: MEDIUM
  category: memory_entropy
  response: WARN_AND_RESET
  description: Progressive context degradation leads to memory entropy and reasoning drift.
normativeRequirements:
  total: 135
  must_shall: 95
  should: 25
  may: 15
relatedStandards:
- ISO 9001
- ISO 27001
- SOC 2
- EU AI Act
- IEC 61508
referenceImplementation: "https://amos.wavult.com"
