{"version":"1.0","discipline":"Cognitive Reliability Engineering","description":"Canonical vocabulary for the CRE discipline as defined in ASCI-9001 v1.0-draft.","issued":"2026-05-21","publisher":{"name":"Wavult Group","url":"https://wavult.com"},"terms":[{"term":"Epistemic Trust","definition":"Trust established through verification of cognitive state integrity, not merely identity authentication.","related":["Epistemic Privilege Escalation","Mathematical Attestation"]},{"term":"Epistemic Privilege Escalation","definition":"A condition where an agent or process gains epistemic authority that is no longer verifiable through the same governance path as the rest of the system. The cognitive equivalent of sudo.","severity":"CRITICAL","analogous_to":"Privilege escalation in classical cybersecurity","related":["Epistemic Trust","Cognitive Hypervisor"]},{"term":"Mathematical Attestation","definition":"The practice of establishing trust through cryptographic or mathematical proof of cognitive state integrity, as opposed to procedural or social attestation.","related":["Epistemic Trust","Epistemic Ledger"]},{"term":"Epistemic Ledger","definition":"An immutable, append-only record of all cognitive state transitions, reasoning steps, and confidence evaluations within a ASCI-9001 compliant system.","analogous_to":"Hardware Root of Trust / Blockchain ledger","related":["GECL","Mathematical Attestation","Cognitive Forensics"]},{"term":"GECL","definition":"Global Epistemic Consensus Ledger — the reference implementation of the Epistemic Ledger layer in AAMOS Ouroboros.","type":"Implementation","related":["Epistemic Ledger"]},{"term":"Cognitive Hypervisor","definition":"An infrastructure layer that mediates between cognitive execution and lower system resources, enforcing epistemic governance policies at the boundary.","analogous_to":"VMware ESXi / Hypervisor in classical virtualization","related":["Tolkserver","Epistemic Privilege Escalation","Cognitive Execution"]},{"term":"Tolkserver","definition":"The reference implementation of the Cognitive Hypervisor in AAMOS Ouroboros — responsible for reasoning mediation, policy enforcement, and epistemic boundary control.","type":"Implementation","related":["Cognitive Hypervisor"]},{"term":"Cognitive Forensics","definition":"The discipline and infrastructure for post-hoc reconstruction and analysis of cognitive failures, reasoning paths, and epistemic state at any point in time.","analogous_to":"CrowdStrike Falcon / EDR in classical cybersecurity","related":["TraceEngine","Quarantine","Cognitive Failure Taxonomy"]},{"term":"TraceEngine","definition":"Reference implementation component for cognitive forensics — captures, indexes, and enables replay of reasoning traces in AAMOS Ouroboros.","type":"Implementation","related":["Cognitive Forensics"]},{"term":"Cognitive Service Mesh","definition":"Infrastructure layer that manages inter-agent communication, epistemic routing, and service-level cognitive policies in multi-agent deployments.","analogous_to":"Istio / Service mesh in classical microservices","related":["CognitiveMesh","Agent Cascade Instability"]},{"term":"CognitiveMesh","definition":"Reference implementation of the Cognitive Service Mesh in AAMOS Ouroboros.","type":"Implementation","related":["Cognitive Service Mesh"]},{"term":"Cognitive Failure Taxonomy","definition":"Structured classification of cognitive failures in AI systems, organized by severity, category, and prescribed response. ASCI-9001 defines CFT-001 through CFT-007 as the canonical taxonomy.","related":["CFT-001","CFT-002","CFT-003","CFT-004","CFT-005","CFT-006","CFT-007"]},{"term":"Cognitive Sovereignty","definition":"The property of a system whose reasoning, governance, and epistemic state are fully attributable and controllable within a defined organizational boundary.","related":["Epistemic Trust","ASCI-9001 Tier 3"]},{"term":"Evidence-Grade Output","definition":"An AI output that carries sufficient provenance metadata, confidence attestation, and reasoning trace to be admissible as evidence in regulatory, legal, or governance contexts.","related":["Epistemic Ledger","Cognitive Forensics","Mathematical Attestation"]},{"term":"Epistemic Quarantine","definition":"An isolation mechanism that prevents an agent or reasoning chain suspected of epistemic corruption from influencing other system components until forensic review is complete.","related":["Cognitive Forensics","CFT-003","TraceEngine"]},{"term":"Confidence Calibration","definition":"The process of aligning expressed confidence scores with empirical accuracy, ensuring probabilistic claims are statistically valid and not overfit.","related":["CFT-005","Mathematical Attestation","Evidence-Grade Output"]},{"term":"Reasoning Graph","definition":"A directed acyclic graph (DAG) representing the complete chain of inference steps, evidence references, and confidence weights that produced a given cognitive output.","related":["Epistemic Ledger","CFT-004","Cognitive Forensics"]}]}