The `spec-spine` command-line tool: compile a markdown spec corpus into a deterministic authority registry and query it. A thin wrapper over spec-spine-core.
The action-gate Gate: a pure, deterministic decision engine over a pluggable, ordered Check registry, with a stable config hash and optional common checks.
Remote MCP connectors for the Common Agent Runtime — connect to remote MCP servers over HTTP, register their tools, and route calls through CAR's governance…
Canonical Rigorix contracts (JSON Schemas + conformance fixtures), embedded at build time and consumable by the verifier, clients, and servers — one copy, no…
Constitutional self-modification: every change to a system's own behavior-bearing state is a signed amendment — proposed, deliberated, ratified by tier,…
Bounded autonomy for self-acting systems: an autonomy ladder (off/suggest/safe-apply/full), protected surfaces that never auto-apply, blast-radius caps, rate…
Bicameral minds: consequential decisions require signed concurrence from independent reasoning chambers — GPU brain and ANE brain — with dissent preserved in a…
A dissenting quorum for agent actions: deterministic seats vote on a normalized risk vector, verdicts carry every vote and rationale, and dissent is scored and…
Temporal policy provenance: pin the policy hash in force at every event, then answer 'what rules governed at time T' forever — named for the painted buffalo…
