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docs/000-introduction.md

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+# Introduction
+
+Classic operating systems were built to manage scarce physical resources (CPU time, memory pages, disk blocks, network sockets) and to provide deterministic execution semantics.
+
+Modern AI/LLM systems introduce a new class of workload:
+- probabilistic outputs
+- context-dependent behavior
+- expensive inference
+- heterogeneous accelerators
+- tool-based grounding with side effects
+
+Today these systems are assembled in userland using RPC, containers, and orchestration frameworks. That works, but the abstractions leak: context, provenance, budgets, and authority are not first-class OS concepts.
+
+**Cognition OS** is a spec and reference design for a “cognitive kernel” control plane that governs non-deterministic computation deterministically, while keeping all learning and inference in userland services.
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docs/010-design-goals.md

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+# Design goals
+
+## Primary goals
+
+1. **Deterministic governance**
+   - enforce policy outside model weights
+   - deterministic decisions for authority, budgeting, and audit
+
+2. **Capability-based execution**
+   - no ambient permissions for models or tools
+   - explicit, revocable capabilities with TTL and scope
+
+3. **Cognitive resources as first-class**
+   - context budgets, compute budgets, risk budgets
+   - cost-aware scheduling (latency vs confidence)
+
+4. **Provenance**
+   - structured event model for “what happened and why”
+   - support tamper-evident logging (later)
+
+5. **Isolation domains**
+   - strong sandboxing for tools and untrusted workers
+   - fault containment and graceful degradation
+
+## Non-goals (for v0.x)
+
+- kernel-resident LLM inference
+- universal scheduler for all workloads
+- solving “alignment” in the model
+

docs/020-threat-model.md

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+# Threat model (draft)
+
+## Assets to protect
+- host filesystem and secrets
+- network access and credentials
+- tool side effects (writes, API calls, deletes)
+- user data and memory stores
+- audit and provenance integrity
+
+## Adversaries / failure modes
+- prompt injection leading to unsafe tool usage
+- malicious tool plugins
+- hallucinated or forged tool outputs
+- data exfiltration via tool channels
+- runaway cost due to repeated retries/loops
+
+## Strategy
+- least authority via capabilities
+- isolation domains for tool execution
+- policy gate for side effects
+- provenance for every tool call and memory commit
+

docs/030-architecture-overview.md

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+# Architecture overview
+
+Cognition OS is layered:
+
+## Layer 0: Classic kernel
+FreeBSD / Linux provides:
+- process isolation
+- memory protection
+- basic resource controls
+- device drivers
+- confinement primitives (jails/namespaces)
+- security primitives (Capsicum / seccomp+LSM)
+
+## Layer 0.5: Cognitive kernel (control plane)
+A minimal trusted base that provides:
+- identity + provenance hooks
+- capability minting and enforcement boundaries
+- budget enforcement hooks (time/compute/context/risk)
+- isolation domain management
+- event bus for intent + constraints
+
+This can begin as a userland daemon, later optionally gaining kernel hooks.
+
+## Layer 1: Cognitive runtime (userland++)
+Composable services:
+- scheduler/router
+- context manager
+- memory services (working/episodic/semantic/symbolic)
+- tool broker (sandboxed execution)
+- policy engine (deterministic)
+
+## Layer 2: Workers
+Replaceable modules:
+- LLM inference worker(s)
+- retrieval workers
+- verification workers
+- perception workers (future)
+
+## Invariants
+- models do not directly invoke tools
+- tool execution requires explicit capabilities
+- provenance is produced for every side effect
+

docs/090-roadmap.md

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+# Roadmap (draft)
+
+## v0.1 (contract-first)
+- cognition object model (Intent/Constraints/Capability/Event/Result)
+- cognitive syscalls/API (daemon IPC initially)
+- event provenance model
+- FreeBSD mapping notes (jails, Capsicum, kqueue)
+- minimal example flows
+
+## v0.2 (prototypes)
+- tool broker with capability-scoped execution
+- isolation domain prototypes (FreeBSD first)
+- audit log implementation (append-only)
+
+## v0.3 (workers)
+- pluggable worker interface
+- LLM worker as a replaceable component (CPU or remote)
+- verifier worker integration
+