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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
+