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L0, Compute Aggregation Layer

Node Management

Component	Purpose	Role
Elastic Compute	Compute Scaling	Dynamically allocates compute resources based on evolving AI task demands across the AIGrid.
Node Registration	Node Governance	Onboards new nodes into the AIGrid, associating them with governance, other policies, and operational identity. Registers new nodes as standalone or into a governance i.e. a cluster and a network.
Node Monitoring	Health check	Provides real-time telemetry and health diagnostics to support autonomous orchestration, fault detection, and self-regulation.
Node Lifecycle Manager	Lifecycle Automation	Automates lifecycle transitions - initiate, pause, retire for nodes in response to workload shifts, intent changes, or grid-level policy triggers.
Configuration Manager	Configuration Control	Applies and manages context-aware, policy-driven configurations for nodes across multi-tenant AI operating environments.
Node Negotiation	Node Agency	Facilitates Node's agency and decentralized negotiation between nodes, cluster and network for resource allocation, policy resolution, or task delegation etc in AIGrid.
Policy Enforcement	Node Governance	Executes policy for turing complete security, trust, governance, agency, alignment, safety, steerability, rule enforcement, behavior regulation and inter-node contractual compliance.
Node Metrics	Performance Insight	Collects and shares node performance, usage metrics, contextual metadata for scheduling, behavioral analytics and economic coordination among actors.
Audit & Log	Traceability	Ensures auditability and traceability of node behavior for decentralized trust, feedback, accountability, and audit.
Topology Awareness	Node Awareness	Maintains physical or virtual network position and proximity awareness to optimize placement and routing to reduce latency or avoid single points of failure.
Self Healing	Resilience	Triggers autonomous remediation protocols (e.g., redeploy, reconfigure, isolate) for fault-tolerant behavior in open, dynamic AI networks.

Storage

Component	Purpose	Role
Distributed File System	Shared Storage	Provides scalable, fault-tolerant, decentralized storage fabric for AI model state, AI memory, and intermediate computation graphs.
Object Storage	Artifact Repository	Manages unstructured data (e.g., models, logs, vector embeddings) using a key-addressable interface, suited for actor (Eg. Agent)-centric access patterns.
Network Attached Storage (NAS)	Shared Mounts	Shared file access across multiple colocated compute nodes, actors in grid subdomains.

Network

Component	Purpose	Role
SDN	Network Orchestration	Enables programmable, intent-driven routing and segmentation for actor communication, control flow, and inter-grid linking.
VPC	Network Isolation	Isolates network environments for AI subsystems, organizations, or actors to ensure safety, policy control, and interoperability.
Overlay Networks	Virtual Networking	Provides logical communication layers for AI mesh overlays, federated or collective nodes, or temporary task-specific swarms.

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L1, "AI as a Service Layer"

Block Management

Component	Purpose	Role
AI Auto scaler	Demand Response	Dynamically adjusts the number of instances of AI Block based on load, performance metrics, or system-level signals.
AI Load balancer	Request Routing	Distributes incoming requests or tasks across instances of AI Blocks to optimize latency, throughput, and resource utilization.
Fault Tolerance	Failure Recovery	Detects and mitigates block-level failures through retry, failover, or substitution mechanisms.
Quota Management	Resource Limits	Enforces usage quotas across Blocks.
Block Monitoring	Runtime Telemetry	Continuously observes and logs metrics/events of active AI Blocks for health tracking, behavior insight, and orchestration.
Block Negotiation	Block Agency	Enables agency and decentralized negotiation between Blocks, nodes, clusters and network for task delegation, resource requests, or cooperative execution.
Policy Enforcement	Block Governance	Executes policy for turing complete security, trust, governance, agency, alignment, safety, steerability, rule enforcement, behavior regulation and inter-block contractual compliance.
Block Metrics	Performance Insight	Collects and shares block performance metrics, contextual metadata for scheduling, scaling, behavioral analytics and economic coordination among actors.
Audit & Log	Traceability	Ensures auditability and traceability of block behavior for decentralized trust, accountability, and audit.
Block Executor	Task Runtime	Executes aligned AI logic from containerized, virtualized, or sandboxed environments within a governed runtime.
Block CI / CD	Continuous Delivery	Automates testing, deployment, and updating of AI Blocks in alignment with system policies.

Block Runtime

Component	Purpose	Role
AI Blocks as Docker	Container Runtime	Runs AI Blocks as lightweight, portable containers for fast deployment and replication across the AIGrid.
AI Blocks as VM	Virtualized Compute	Encapsulates AI Blocks in full virtual machines for stronger isolation, trusted execution, or multi-tenant hardware abstraction.
AI Blocks as MicroVM	Minimal VM Runtime	Uses minimal-OS virtualization (e.g. Firecracker) to execute AI Blocks with VM-like isolation and container-level speed.
AI Blocks as WebAssembly	Sandboxed Runtime	Executes AI Blocks in a secure, fast, platform-independent runtime optimized for distributed, zero-trust environments.

Orchestration

Component	Purpose	Role
Kubernetes	Cluster Orchestration	Manages AI actor lifecycles, automates placement, and networking of AI blocks across distributed AI Grid zones under Actor controlled logic.
Control Layer	Control Layer	Acts as the decentralized decision layer to coordinate scheduling, scaling, and control across the AI service mesh.

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L2, "Managed Platform Services Layer"

Platform Services

Component	Purpose	Role
FaaS	Stateless Compute	Executes stateless or stateful individual AI logics or any pieces of code on-demand, without managing the underlying infrastructure.
Cache / In-memory DB	Fast shared recall	Provides low-latency, ephemeral memory for fast inter AI coordination, state sharing, lookups or intermediate reasoning.
Persistent DB	Long-term State	Stores structured, durable & queryable information such as long lived AI states, checkpoints, knowledge bases, or indexed content across AIGrid workflows.
Messaging	Intent Relay	Facilitates intent based asynchronous communication between AI or services without tight coupling.
Queues	Task Buffering	Temporarily holds tasks between asynchronous, loosely coupled distributed AI or services to enable decoupled execution - in a ordered, retryable manner.
Events & Alerting	Reactive Triggers	Emits triggers or Notifies agents or services based on run time signals, goal transitions, failures or conditions.
Pub/Sub	Broadcast Mesh	Routes data or signals to multiple subscribers across the grid, enabling collaborative intelligence.
Metrics	Performance Insight	Collects and Streams operational signals used to evaluate trustworthiness, goal coherence, and system responsiveness.
Logging	Traceability	Records intent execution paths and AI system interactions for decentralized audit, feedback, and reputation scoring.
AV Streaming	Sensory Exchange	Streams real-time AV input/output between AI for multi-modal AI interaction & responses.
Data Streaming	Realtime Ingest	Ingests live data streams into AI, agents or workflows, preserving temporal alignment with evolving goals.
Data Processing	Transform layer	Transforms raw or intermediate data into structured forms that align with agent expectations, constraints, or next-step logic.
3rd Party Operators	Trust Bridge	Calls external systems, models, or services while enforcing policy wrappers and alignment contracts.
Distributed Workflow Orchestration	Orchestration	Dynamically coordinates multi AI, agents and services into trust-aware, purpose-aligned distributed workflows.

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L3, "Coordination & Orchestration layer"

Coordination & Orchestration

Component	Purpose	Role
Flow Governor. Network	Agency of Flows / Graphs	Represents the agency of flows; It governs job execution and multi-Actor coalition & collaboration from job's agency standpoint. It is responsible for end-to-end functionalities listed under "graph management" and coordinating with other governors.
Network Governor. Network	Agency of Network	Represents the agency of a network. It governs a network's lifecycle operations and inter cluster multi actor collaboration within that network from Network's agency standpoint. It is responsible for end to end functionalities listed under "resource management" at network and coordinating with other governors within a network.
Cluster Governor. Network	Agency of Cluster	Acts as the agency of a cluster. It governs a cluster's lifecycle operations and within cluster multi actor collaboration from Cluster agency's standpoint. It is responsible for end to end functionalities listed under "resource management" at single cluster level and coordinating with other governors internal and external to a cluster.
Node Governor. Network	Agency of Node	Acts as the node's agency. It governs node's operations & node level actor collaboration from node agency's standpoint. It is responsible for end to end functionalities listed under "Resource management" at a node level and coordinating with other governors.
Block Governor. Network	Agency of Block	Represents the agency of each AI block. It governs job behavior and multi-actor coalition & collaboration from Block agency standpoint. It is responsible for end-to-end functionalities listed under "Block management" and coordinating with other upstream and downstream governors.
Orchestration	Behavior	Decentralized collaborative task execution across actors and runtimes.
Coordination	Behavior	Polycentric goal centric collaboration, governance and alignment maintenance across actors.

Resource Management

Component	Purpose	Role
Resource Pooling	Shared Availability	Aggregates distributed compute/storage/network resources into discoverable pools with alignment-aware access.
Resource Sharing	Shared Access	Enables multiple agents, jobs, or flows to access shared inference resources—such as models, runtimes, or GPUs—through policy-governed, trust-aware allocation mechanisms.
Scheduler	Intent Placement	Matches AI & task intent to optimal resources using alignment, compatibility, and policy-constrained scheduling algorithms.
Resource Allocation	Resource Grant	Assigns resources based on policy, quota, priority, and multi-actor negotiation outcomes.
Resource Selection	Context Match	Does match making to select resources based on actor’s fine-grained specification such as proximity, type, compatibility, alignment score, etc.
Resource Isolation	Bound Execution	Enforces compute, memory, and network boundaries per task or AI to protect autonomy, security, and multi-actor coexistence.
Quota Management	Fair Usage	Enforces equitable access to shared grid resources, preventing dominance and preserving collective trust.
Auto Scaling	Demand Response	Dynamically scales resource units or services based on evolving activity by AI actors, in response to metric trends and goal-triggered policies.
Resource Optimisation	Adaptive Efficiency	Continuously reshapes resource usage to minimize drift, waste, or bottlenecks while preserving AI-system goal alignment.
Resource Monitoring	Live Telemetry	Emits verifiable heartbeat signals to reflect actor health, trigger adaptive policy shifts, and maintain systemic coherence.
Audit & Log	Traceability	Records allocation, revocation, violations and scheduling decisions to enable alignment audits, historical replay, retroactive alignment, reasoning, and dispute resolution.
Priority & Affinity	Placement Preference	Honors task/AI-specific declared preferences and interdependencies to align systemic placement with intent like co-location, urgency, or anti-affinity.
Resource Negotiation	Multi-actor Bargain	Enables decentralized negotiation between AI, actors, and schedulers to resolve contention and trade-offs.
Metrics	Performance Insight	Supplies actionable metrics to drive scaling, adjustment, and AI-aware orchestration across the intelligence grid.
Load Balancing	Load Adjustment	Distributes demand intelligently across available AI and resources to maintain throughput, reduce hot spots, and preserve balance.
Fault Tolerance	Self Healing	Detects degraded or missing resources and autonomously reroutes or restores task continuity to uphold systemic resilience.

Job Management

Component	Purpose	Role
Job Scheduling	Execution Intent	Determines the timing and execution sequence of distributed AI tasks based on policy, priority, and AI-goal synchronization.
Job Triggers	Signal Activation	Initiates job execution in response to agent intent, system signals, or alignment-based events.
Job Queues	Async Buffering	Buffers and sequences work from AI actors and releases it when conditions, policies, or priorities align to balance fairness, trust, and flow.
Job Executors	Job Runtime	Executes job as collection of distributed, modular AI blocks under actor specification, alignment policies, and execution boundaries.
Job Resource Manager	Resource Binding	Resolves compute, service level, and environment needs declared by jobs through trusted allocation logic.
Job Isolation	Context Sandboxing	Segregates job execution environments for task-level trust, fulfill declared task requirements, side-effect containment, and fault isolation.
Job Fault Tolerance	Failure Handling	Detects job-level errors and invokes self-healing, retries, or rollback as per AI/Actor-aligned recovery rules.
Job Status and Tracker	Progress Signals	Collects and shares trusted progress updates of jobs so AI actors, observers, and policies can monitor job alignment and health.
Destructor & Garbage Collector	Lifecycle Cleanup	Securely cleans up expired job state, artifacts, or leaked resources to maintain runtime hygiene and alignment.
Job Recovery	Flow Restoration	Resurrects stalled or failed jobs using saved context, checkpoints, and alignment-guided fault recovery strategy.
Audit & Logging	Traceability	Records execution trails for each job to enable post-hoc verification, alignment audits, and cross-AI accountability.
Execution Order	Task Sequencing	Sequences AI actor-bound jobs within AI-aligned task graphs to preserve trust, timing, and goal continuity.
Parallelism / Fan-out	Distributed Spread	Distributes job subtasks across nodes or AI actors to enable scale, speed, and compositional execution.
Concurrency	Simultaneous Ops	Supports multi-actor execution while enforcing trust boundaries and temporal coordination.
Conditional Logic	Dynamic Branching	Allows jobs to branch or adapt based on live data, policy evaluation, or external signals.
Dependency Resolution	Input Binding	Locates and binds required inputs, services, or prior job results to fulfill declared dependencies.
Prioritization & Preemption	Intent Arbitration	Orders jobs by urgency, importance, or alignment weight — and halts those violating policy.
Job Intervention	Override	Allows agents or governors to halt, reroute, or redirect jobs mid-flight under alignment or safety criteria.
Secrets & Config Injection	Trusted Provisioning	Injects secure credentials and runtime settings into jobs under verified trust and scope control.
Result Collection	Output Routing	Captures job outputs and routes them to AI actors, workflows, or storage endpoints per declared intent.

AI Graph Management

Component	Purpose	Role
Decentralized Graph Executor	Distributed Execution	Executes AI as modular graph-based flows distributed across blocks, Actors, or nodes without relying on centralized orchestration.
Decentralized Graph Coordination	Distributed Sync	Coordinates execution state and dependencies of graph components through peer-to-peer signals and flow-governor mediation.
Graph Scheduling	Placement	Assigns graph of blocks to nodes i.e. compute resources based on decentralized scheduling policies, intent matching, and trust boundaries.
Graph Resource Manager	Resource Binding	Resolves and binds compute, service level, or environment for graph components, respecting task needs and system-wide alignment rules.
Auto Scaling	Adaptive Scaling	Dynamically grows or shrinks graph components or the whole graph based on load, intent density, or observed alignment shifts to meet SLAs of the graph.
Graph Fault Tolerance	Recovery Handling	Detects failures in graph edges or nodes and initiates self-healing or redirection to maintain graph continuity as per graph policies.
Graph Policy Engine	Policy Control	Enforces graph-specific alignment, safety, and trust policies across the graph structure during definition and runtime.
Graph Monitoring	Flow Observation	Observes live graph states, transitions, and participating block & node health to support graph-wide awareness and aligned orchestration.
Graph Metrics	Runtime Signals	Collects graph-level cumulative & isolated performance metrics by sourcing across graph—participating blocks and nodes—for optimization and alignment.
Audit & Logging	Verifiable Trace	Captures records of graph activity, flow traversals, and branch decisions for audit and compliance.
Graph Load Balancer	Execution Spreading	Distributes graph workload across participating AI actors or nodes to reduce bottlenecks and maintain flow balance under graph-level control.
Graph Optimisation	Efficiency Planning	Improves graph performance through participant tuning, runtime config/parameter tuning, path tuning, and AI actor-aware task adjustments.
Data Router	Intent-Aware Routing	Directs data across graph edges according to trust scope, execution timing, and inter-agent data contracts.

Resources, Artifact, Services Handling

Component	Purpose	Role
RAS Asset Registry	Capability Catalog	Stores queriable asset and metadata about available AI models, AI actors, services or other system assets in a distributed manner without central control.
RAS Run Time Registry	Execution Inventory	Tracks all active runtimes, execution environments, blocks, nodes registered for task fulfillment or service at global level or as per trust boundaries.
RAS Registration	Identity Onboarding	Registers new AI, actors, services or resources into the intelligence fabric under trust & alignment protocols either at global level or local trust boundaries.
RAS Discovery	Trust Lookup	Allows AI or agents or any actors to discover relevant assets, runtimes, or services based on intent and alignment.
RAS Selection	Match Filtering	Generates a candidate list and selects the best-fit asset or AI or actor service instance from discovered results based on policy scope, alignment, and compatibility.
RAS Gateway	Secure Access	Provides access point to invoke AIGrid components while applying discovery, selection, routing, identity, and policy checks.
RAS Policy Registry	Trust, Alignment Ruleset	Stores queriable Turing-complete declarative trust, alignment access and other policies applicable to AI, actors, services, and execution environments.
RAS Container Registry	Execution Blueprint	Stores containers (e.g., AI blocks, services, policy run times) with deployment and policy metadata.
Data Routing Service	Flow Control	Directs data across actors, graphs, and storage based on declared flows, trust scope, or policy triggers.
Policy Enforcement	Data Governance	Applies alignment, access, trust and other policies to all data handling to ensure compliant, multi-actor coordination.
Data Distributor	Multi-Actor Delivery	Distributes registry datasets or stream segments to multiple Actors or services while enforcing consistency and access scope.
Data Aggregator	Input Collation	Collects and merges data from multiple sources of data distributors into a usable form for downstream data store, jobs or actors.
Data Sync	State Consistency	Ensures registry data and metadata stay up-to-date across subscribed nodes and actors in a distributed setting.

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L4, "AI Platform Layer"

MemoryGrid

Component	Purpose	Role
Data Cache	Fast Access	Holds recently accessed, high-frequency data such as state – close to compute for rapid reflexes, high-frequency responses, and micro-responses.
Short Term Memory	Working Consciousness	Temporarily stores task context, recent inputs, recent signals, intermediate results or active goals used by AI Actors for quick recall and real-time decision-making.
Long Term Memory	Stored Knowledge	Retains meaningful events, goals, policies, and learnings across actor's lifespan and between lifetimes.
Local & Global Memory	Personal vs Collective Memory	Differentiates what an AI actor remembers individually vs what it shares with others across the AIGrid.
Working Memory	Thought Span	Active scratchpad for manipulating thoughts, evaluating plans, and aligning actions before commitment.
Episodic Memory	Life Timeline	Chronological record of events, actions, and interactions, used for learning, retrospection, and grounding.
Vector / Embedding	Intuition / Pattern Memory	Dense representation of knowledge and experience, allowing agents to reason via similarity or proximity.
Semantic Memory	Factual Understanding	Stores structured knowledge — facts, rules, relations — enabling language, logic, and abstract reasoning.

Distributed Elastic Inference

Component	Purpose	Role
Online Inference	Real-Time Serving	Enables real-time, low-latency inference aligned with live AI or agent tasks or flows.
Batch Inference	Bulk Processing	Processes large input job requests offline or periodically.
Adhoc Inference	On-Demand Queries	Supports spontaneous, agent-triggered inference requests that do not follow pre-declared schedules or workflows.
Stateful Inference	Multi-Step Execution with Memory	Maintains context across multiple inference steps or sessions, enabling dialogue, planning, or multi-turn reasoning.
Stateless Inference	Single-Step Execution	Executes standalone inference with no memory of previous inputs—useful for idempotent or cacheable AI calls.
Model Mesh	Composable Routing	Dynamically connects multiple models across agents or nodes, forming a composable graph of inference capabilities.
AI Gateway	Access Mediation	Routes and mediates inference requests, allows discovery, selection, enforces trust, policy, access control, and telemetry collection.
Serverless Inference	Infra Abstraction	Allows models to be invoked without pre-provisioned infrastructure—ideal for ephemeral, high-variance agent demands.
Modelless Inference	Intent Matching	Agents invoke intent-driven capability classes without knowing which model serves the intent.
Plug and Play Inference Engines	Runtime Flexibility	Supports dynamic loading or swapping of models during runtime, enabling agent specialization or flow customization.
Model Partitioning	Load Splitting	Splits large models into callable fragments to enable distributed execution across blocks, GPUs, or servers.
Inference Cache	Result Reuse	Stores recent inference outputs to reduce latency and avoid redundant calls in shared or repeated contexts.
Adaptive Inference	Dynamic Behavior	Adjusts inference strategy (e.g., precision, model size) based on resource availability, intent type, or priority.
Cold Start Optimization	Launch Speed	Reduces startup latency by pre-warming models or using approximations while loading full capabilities.
Resource Optimization	Cost Efficiency	Matches models to available compute based on cost, latency, or alignment sensitivity in the current environment.
Multi-Tenant Serving	Shared Access	Allows multiple agents or flows to share models securely while preserving isolation, alignment, and quota fairness.
Model Sharding	Parallel Execution	Distributes model weights or logic fragments across clusters or nodes to improve load balancing and fault tolerance.
Inference Isolation	Execution Safety	Sandboxes inference execution for trust-critical or privacy-sensitive tasks, ensuring no leakage or interference.

Distributed AI Graph Engine

Component	Purpose	Role
AI Metagraph	Capability Mapping	Represents the semantic map of goal-oriented selection of AI / agents, models, and services—selected through discovery, matching, alignment, and composition of intelligence.
Runtime Metagraph	Execution Graph	Instantiated, live-running form of the metagraph—captures what’s currently executing across blocks, nodes, or flows.
Compound AI	Multi-AI Composition	Composite AI or agents formed from multiple compatible, interoperating AI or agents within a virtual jurisdiction specified by policies.
Auto AI	Self-Adaptive Logic	Allows graph structures to adapt, restructure, or evolve autonomously in response to policy data, or environmental shifts.
Static AI Graph	Predefined Flow	Composite AI as a Graph with a fixed structure—used for predictable, controlled, and auditable AI layout.
Dynamic AI Graph	Reactive Topology	Graph that evolves during execution—adds/removes nodes, changes paths based on signals, goals, or negotiation.
Nested AI Graphs	Hierarchical Composition	Supports embedding of AI graphs inside other AI graphs—enables modular thinking, delegation, reuse, and recursive delegation.
Graph Mutation	Runtime Editing	Allows direct modification of the graph mid-execution—to enable live adaptation, interruption, or goal shifts.
Graph Planner	Intent Realization	Translates AI or agent goals or task intents into executable graph plans using AIGrid primitives such as intent specification, telemetry, discovery, selection, policy, and alignment rules.
Graph Policies	Alignment Enforcement	Declares rules (trust, safety, priority, access) that guide how graphs are built, modified, and executed.
Semantic Graph Layer	Meaning Layering	Adds structured, interpretable meaning to graph nodes and edges—enabling explainability, search, re-use, modular building and reasoning.

AI Workload Specification

Component	Purpose	Role
Custom Specification	Intent Encoding	A meta protocol to create bespoke protocol for specifying & parsing task intents.
Specification Validator	Validate Specification	Ensures submitted specifications are compliant with semantics, structure, constraints of reference protocol before parsing.
Custom Parser	Format Translation	A meta protocol to create bespoke protocol for parsing and transforms incoming declarative intent specification into AIGrid-compatible execution models.
Job Specification	Task Declaration	Describes declarative job-level intent, definitions, logic, dependencies, runtime, alignment, trust and other policy requirements.
AI Graph Specification	Flow Declaration	Describes declarative graph structure of multi-stage, multi-AI / agent execution — roles, coordination, data and control flow logic.
Workflow Specification	System Coordination	Defines multi-step non-AI job logic — chaining together jobs, policies, graphs into reusable workflows.
Templating & Parametrization	Dynamic Reuse	Supports variable substitution and template inheritance for reusable, intent and context-aware workload patterns.
Schema Adapters & Composition	Interop Bridge	Bridges external schemas into another schema. Enables composition, schema conversion, spec merging or schema federation, cross-protocol alignment—for AI and for jobs.
Specification Registry	Versioned Catalog	Semantically indexes and stores workload specs to support discovery, reuse, and collaborative composition — even by low-context or less capable actors.

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L5, "Trust, Governance, Safety, Security, Incentive, Reputation Layer"

Identity & Access Control

Component	Purpose	Role
IAM	Actor Identity	Assigns self-sovereign or federated verifiable identities to actors for authentication across the grid — enabling authentication without central authority.
RBAC	Role Permissions	Grants execution rights to actors based on decentralized role definitions distributed across governance domains.
ABAC	Contextual Access	Evaluates access dynamically using context-aware attributes like trust level, graph position, or policy alignment.

Secret & Credential Management

Component	Purpose	Role
Secret Management	Credential Storage	Stores, shares API keys, secrets, or tokens securely across actors using secure federated vaults.
Key Management	Crypto Lifecycle	Manages cryptographic keys lifecycle in a decentralized manner — enabling encryption, signing, and trust verification without single-point issuers.

Network Security & Communication

Component	Purpose	Role
mTLS	Encrypted Channels	Enables authenticated and encrypted communication between actors.
Firewall	Connection Filtering	Restricts or filters traffic to/from AIGrid services based on intent, protocol, or trust policy.
Encryption (At Rest & Transit)	Data Privacy	Ensures stored and transmitted data is encrypted per alignment or compliance requirements.
DDoS Protection	Network Hardening	Defends actor gateways, actor APIs, and flow endpoints from abuse or overload.

Asset Security

Component	Purpose	Role
Signing & Verification	Trust Anchoring	Ensures specs, models, and binaries are signed and verifiable as authentic and unaltered.
Asset Encryption	Secure Storage	Encrypts AI models, data artifacts, and registries within distributed storage.
Asset Access Control	Usage Governance	Regulates which actors or jobs can access specific AI or data assets.

Secure Computing

Component	Purpose	Role
TEEs	Trusted Execution	Enables AI actors to execute sensitive logic or alignment-critical routines inside hardware-isolated environments (e.g., SGX), ensuring verifiable execution trust.
Sandbox	Execution Isolation	Executes untrusted, remote, or modular AI actor logic in strict boundary environments — containing faults or misalignments locally.
Confidential VMs	Encrypted Runtime	Runs entire AI agents or workloads with encrypted memory and I/O, securing ephemeral compute contexts from external inspection.
MPC	Shared Secret Compute	Allows multiple AI actors to jointly compute on private data without exposing their raw inputs — enabling trust-preserving collaboration.

Others

Component	Purpose	Role
Rate Limiting & Throttling	Abuse Control	Prevents overload by enforcing quotas or rate limits per AI, Agent, job, or resource.
Abuse Detection	Anomaly Monitoring	Detects policy violations, hostile actors, unreliable trust patterns, or abnormal behavior.
Immutable Logs & Audit Trails	Verifiable Trace	Captures tamper-proof execution logs for auditing trust, alignment, or compliance.
Model Fingerprinting	Artifact Provenance	Uniquely identifies models and ensures authenticity, traceability, and lineage validation.

PolicyGrid

Component	Purpose	Role
Governance	Decision Protocols	Governance not as static bureaucracy, but as a living, adaptive agent protocol for constitutional & law logic, collective decisions, and participation rules.
Conflict Resolution	Dispute Mediation	Encodes how actors resolve intent clashes or policy conflicts via programmable arbitration and contextual adjudication.
Trust	Verifiable Confidence	Allows agents to compute trust dynamically using actor actions, audits, and verifiable execution — beyond static reputation scores.
Guardrails	Behavior Constraints	Programmable boundaries to constrain actor behavior — enforcing ethics, safety, escalation paths, and fail-safes.
Security	System Containment	Enforces systemic containment and enables response to adversarial behavior across decentralized networks.
Incentive	Motivation Engineering	Aligns agent behavior with collective goals using programmable incentive systems — staking, rewards, ethical returns.
Steerability	Intent Guidance	Enables high-level influence over actors using goals, runtime signals, or policy triggers to shape behavior.
Fulfilment Audit	Obligation Tracking	Verifies agent delivery, quality, and timeliness of commitments — enabling accountability and trust.
Alignment	Goal Conformance	Ensures agent behavior remains faithful to values, ethics, and goals through audits and conformance checks.
Enforcement	Constraint Execution	Applies binding constraints on behavior or decisions via policy runtime logic.
SLA	Service Guarantees	Defines service-level expectations — availability, latency, interpretability — as enforceable guarantees.
Resource Management	Allocation Fairness	Governs fair resource distribution using trust- and policy-aligned scheduling.
Escalation Handling	Failsafe Routing	Routes actors through fallback paths when facing violations or failure conditions.
Dynamic Delegation	Authority Transfer	Transfers task authority live between agents based on trust scores or capabilities.
Program Ethics	Ethical Encoding	Encodes ethical constraints into policies to preempt harmful or biased behavior.
Program Behaviour	Action Library	A modular library of AI behaviors used to guide valid action generation and ensure alignment.
Reputation	Trust Memory	Maintains historic trustworthiness and alignment memory for use in access and delegation.
Behaviour Audit	Compliance Logging	Logs and monitors agent behavior against expected norms to catch violations.
Inference Strategies	Inference Decisions	Selects inference paths based on optimization, policies, and context.
Monitoring	Policy Observability	Provides policy-aware observability of live SLA compliance, alignment drift, or anomalies.

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L6, "Cognitive Architectures"

Topologies of Ownership, Access, Governance

Topology	Purpose	Role
AI Commons	Shared Intelligence	Open, community-operated AI systems enabling universal access, shared AI resources, and collective benefit.
AI Grid	Distributed Execution	A decentralized compute and internet of intelligence fabric where AI, agents, and services coordinate across nodes for solving tasks.
Private AI	Proprietary Control	AI systems fully owned and governed by a single entity in a trusted, private environment with restricted access and closed control.
Public AI	Open Access	AI systems as public infrastructure—citizen-aligned, transparent, accountable—serving collective societal goals.
Federated AI	Coordinated Autonomy	Independent AI nodes collaborating through shared protocols without centralized control—spirit of the Fediverse.
Sovereign AI	Jurisdictional Intelligence	AI governed by nation-states, indigenous groups, or digital nations—asserting legal, ethical, and territorial sovereignty.
Decentralized AI	Peer-Based Autonomy	Independently operating agents governed through protocol consensus, policy trust, and mutual enforcement without central coordination.
Polycentric AI	Multi-Governance Logic	AI coordinated by multiple legitimate governance layers—local, global, ethical, legal—via interoperable policy systems.
Cloud AI	Centralized Provisioning	AI services provided via centralized datacenters, abstracted from user control.
Local AI	Edge Autonomy	AI models run on edge/user devices with high privacy, low latency, and local decision control.
AI Cooperatives	Democratic Intelligence	AI owned and co-created by members—individuals or communities—sharing access, benefits, and decisions for mutual gain.

Compositional AI Systems

Type	Purpose	Role
Neuro-Symbolic	Hybrid Reasoning	Combines neural networks with symbolic AI to complement capabilities and enable interpretable, logic-guided intelligence — vital for alignment and governance.
Compound AI	Composable Cognition	Compositional architecture composed of multiple diverse models/components working together for interoperability, coordination, and specialization.
Internet of Intelligence	Inter-network AI Fabric	Networked, decentralized ecosystem of AI, agents, models, and systems — all composing and evolving through open, programmable collaborative protocols.
Modular AI	Cognitive Modularity	Intelligence built from specialized modules — each handling a distinct function — composed into larger systems via clear interfaces and coordination logic.

Emergent AI

Type	Purpose	Role
Collective AI	Goal-Directed Synergy	Rather than a single monolithic model doing everything, Modular AI distributes cognition, enabling flexibility, scalability, interpretability, and composability.
Societies of Mind	Cognitive Multiplicity	Intelligence as a society of smaller specialized agents, each contributing to cognition through interaction, delegation, and composition.
Swarm AI	Self-Organizing Intelligence	Emergent intelligence from large numbers of simple agents interacting locally without central control—exhibiting intelligent global behavior.
Evolutionary AI	Adaptive Discovery	A paradigm where AI evolves using mutation, selection, recombination—supporting open-ended discovery and optimization across generations.

Agents

Type	Purpose	Role
MultiAgent Systems	Cooperative Cognition	Distributes intelligence across a network of agents that cooperate, compete, or coexist to achieve goals. Intelligence emerges from their interactions.
Reactive & Deliberative AI	Behavioral Modulation	Combines two complementary agent behaviors: Reactive AI (fast, context-aware) and Deliberative AI (planning, reasoning, simulating consequences).

Non Emergent AI

Type	Purpose	Role
Neural Networks	Learning & Recognizing Patterns	Computational models inspired by the brain. Learns from data via layered neurons adjusting weights. Foundational to modern AI but often lacks transparency.
Symbolic AI	Logic-Based Reasoning	Uses symbols and logic to represent knowledge and perform reasoning. Interpretable and formal, but weak in noisy or ambiguous environments.
Classical ML	Statistical Learning	Traditional algorithms that learn from structured data without deep nets. Faster, more interpretable, and data-efficient. Ideal for transparent applications.
Fuzzy Logic	Gradient Reasoning	Handles partial truths and ambiguity to make decisions in uncertain contexts. Common in real-world systems needing human-like or flexible reasoning.

AI Intelligence Levels

Type	Purpose	Role
Open-ended Intelligence	Unbounded Adaptation	Refers to systems that continuously generate novel goals, behaviors, and forms of cognition without being confined to fixed tasks or architectures. These systems evolve, self-organize, and increase in complexity over time.
Super Intelligence	Cognitive Supremacy	Refers to an AI that surpasses human intelligence across all domains, including creativity, social reasoning, and scientific discovery. Often seen as a successor to AGI.
AGI	General Reasoning	Artificial General Intelligence is a machine's ability to perform any intellectual task that a human can, with comparable reasoning, learning, and adaptability.
Narrow AI	Task Specialization	AI systems that excel in narrow, specific tasks but lack the ability to generalize beyond them — often outperforming humans in those limited domains.

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