State & reasoning
State estimation, adaptation, task reasoning, and transition verification. It maintains the context in which a decision can be evaluated.
PROJECT A.L.I.C.E. / 01 / ARCHITECTURE
Intelligence with an execution boundary.
A layered architecture for maintaining state, governing action, and carrying evidence across changing platforms.
THE INTEGRATION STACK
From observation to accountable action.
LAYER 03 / ESTIMATE / GOVERN / VERIFY
A.L.I.C.E. runtime
Maintain state, evaluate policy, coordinate tasks, and verify transitions. Proposed decisions carry their evidence and authorization context to the execution boundary.
Ingest adaptersState estimationPolicy evaluationTask orchestrationAudit / recovery
- Produces
- Evidence-bearing decisions within a declared capability envelope.
- Boundary
- IRA bounds effects; A.L.I.C.E. maintains state and reasoning; QSNv carries continuity records.
THREE DISTINCT RESPONSIBILITIES
Execution boundary
A narrow, deterministic checker between proposed behavior and permitted effects. Its operating envelope and timing budget are explicit.
Continuity & assurance
Receipts, provenance, lineage, and unresolved gaps. It carries the evidence needed to assess a continuation claim.
DECISION LIFECYCLE
Every action has a preceding question.
- 01
Sense
Acquire observations.
- 02
Estimate
Represent state and uncertainty.
- 03
Predict
Evaluate possible outcomes.
- 04
Constrain
Apply scope and policy.
- 05
Act
Execute an authorized decision.
- 06
Verify
Check the resulting state.
- 07
Learn
Carry evidence into the next cycle.
OBSERVED≠INFERRED≠PREDICTED≠KNOWN
An unresolved state remains unresolved until sufficient evidence changes it.
VERIFIED CONTINUITY
Preserve the reason
behind the state.
The architecture carries invariant constraints, an ordered provenance record, lineage, and an admissible transition. Recovery, replication, resumption, and continuation describe different system events.
Invariant
What must remain true through change.
Provenance
What happened and which evidence supports it.
Lineage
Where a state, model, or decision came from.
Transition
How one valid state became the next.
Verification
What permits a commit, rollback, or hold.
OPERATING MODULES
A defined role for each component.
The module model recovered from the Niratech architecture specification.
| Module | Responsibility | Design scope |
|---|---|---|
| Root authority | Identity & trust | Trust anchors, signing policy, audit ownership, and release authorization. |
| GENESIS | Policy compilation | Mission constraints, configuration provenance, and signed policy bundles. |
| IRIS | Observation quality | Sensor ingestion, normalization, timing, health, and source confidence. |
| NEXUS | Constrained orchestration | Action arbitration, bounded execution, and fail-safe transitions. |
| A-Prime / R55 | Operator oversight | Presentation, approvals, telemetry replay, and after-action review. |
SOURCE ARCHITECTURE STUDIES
The underlying system views.
Original program artwork places the runtime, transport, command, and assurance layers in a shared context.
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