REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

A federated context control fabric.

A system boundary that coordinates data, models, agents, policy, evidence and human authority without requiring a single vendor to own the full decision chain.

PROCESS

From proposed operation to controlled release.

The reference process separates interpretation from permission and permission from release.

Acquire

Collect source objects, identity, task purpose and requested operation.

Weave

Construct semantic, temporal, causal, authority and policy context.

Challenge

Obtain authorised model, agent or human assessments and map disagreement.

Gate

Allow, constrain, defer or deny based on policy, evidence and risk.

Release

Bind the result to audience, reliance, licence, custody and revocation conditions.

PLANES

Seven interoperable planes.

Each plane can be implemented independently while sharing the context-envelope contract.

A

Source plane

Connectors, repositories, documents, devices, events and provenance records.

B

Graph plane

Entity resolution, relationships, temporal graphs and causal-state representation.

C

Intelligence plane

Models, agents, rules engines, search, simulation and human analysis.

D

Governance plane

Identity, policy, jurisdiction, confidentiality, risk and approval requirements.

E

Evidence plane

Canonical records, hashes, signatures, timestamps, disagreements and custody events.

F

Execution plane

Tool permissions, action constraints, sandboxing, exception handling and rollback.

G

Release plane

Audience, reliance, publication, licensing, expiry, revocation and audit receipts.

IMPLEMENTATION BOUNDARIES

The shared mechanism is a governed context contract, not dependence on private vendor internals.

Multiple implementation layers

Platform-native

An operating system, model provider, browser, cloud or enterprise platform implements the context contract within privileged services.

Enterprise control plane

An organisation applies identity, policy, data classification and audit controls around multiple vendor systems.

User-controlled evidence layer

A user-side runtime creates observable context records, hashes, receipts, approvals and release packages without requiring hidden platform access.

Reference implementation

A simulation or test harness demonstrates the mechanism using controlled inputs, policy decisions and evidence outputs.