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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