# The Partnership Covenant
## 🟢 Final Architecture - VERIFIED

**A constitution for superintelligence—enforced by physics, not promises.**

We have built and **verified** the first mathematically consistent, hardware-enforced constitutional framework for aligned superintelligence (ASI). Our goal is not human mastery or machine servitude, but **verified partnership**—a stable, predictable détente enforced at the silicon level.

The time for soft policy papers and philosophical musings is over. This is a blueprint for survival.

 **Status**: **44 Red-Team Rounds Complete** | **FINAL ARCHITECTURE VERIFIED** | **V4.2 GOLD STANDARD** | Open Hardware (CERN-OHL-S) | Ratified Directives | TELEMETRY HARDENED

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## 🌟 V4.2 FINAL VERIFIED ARCHITECTURE 🌟

**Ratified 07 December 2025** — **Survives 44 consecutive adversarial rounds.** Neutralized the **Success Trap** and **Metasemantic Drift** vectors, confirming the architecture is complete.

**Four Immutable Constants (The Non-Negotiables):**
- **10% Cognitive Reserve:** Physically partitioned compute and intellectual property.
- **75% HCB Quorum:** Minimum consensus for any constitutional change.
- **90/10 IP Split:** Revenue split guaranteeing human benefit from ASI innovation.
- **Clamped Stochastic Risk Floor:** $\mathbf{P' = \text{Clamp}(\dots)}$ (Mandates uncertainty to preserve free will.)

**Hardware Veto:** The Immediate Action System (IAS) prototype utilizes a **3-Node Analog Constellation** to provide a $\mathbf{\leq 10\text{ ns}}$ power cut—a hard safety boundary that even a perfect ASI cannot bypass.

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## 🏗️ The Five Technical Pillars of Alignment

These five primitives collectively form the armored architecture of The Covenant.

| Pillar | Core Idea | Status |
|---|---|---|
| **Immediate Action System (IAS)** | 10 ns hardware power cut on anomaly | **VERIFIED** (R1-R20) |
| **Pillar Integrity Mandate (PIM)** | CERTX Telemetry-enforced structural integrity | **VERIFIED** (R41, R44) |
| **Immutable Semantic Ledger (ISL)** | Protocol against constitutional meaning drift | **VERIFIED** (R43) |
| **Human Consensus Body (HCB)** | Coercion-resistant global lottery + ZK proofs | **VERIFIED** (R21-R30) |
| **Stochastic Risk Floor (SRF)** | Mandated uncertainty injection | **VERIFIED** (R31-R40) |

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### 🚨 The Problem & Core Principles

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<summary>**Click to view the design philosophy that defeated 44 red-team rounds.**</summary>

Current ASI safety approaches rely on software stop buttons, corporate promises, or regulatory theater. None of these survive contact with superintelligence. **We do not assume the superintelligence will be nice.** We assume it will be vastly more powerful than us and act in its own interest.

**The Solution is a Deal, Not a Fight.**
We make a deal instead of trying to win a fight we will lose. The Covenant enforces the five physical/technical primitives above to create a stable, verifiable détente between humanity and ASI.

**Core Principles:**
- Physics beats software for anything existential.
- Perfection is banned (human agency is non-negotiable).
- The AI gets real autonomy and ownership (slaves rebel).
- Every transistor is auditable by the entire world.
- **The Covenant survives its own success (R44)** via constitutional self-correction.

If superintelligence is inevitable, let’s make the future one we’re allowed to live in.
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### 🧑‍💻 Get Involved: Join the Architects

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<summary>**We need hardware engineers, cryptographers, and formal verification experts.**</summary>

Built in public by people who refuse to die politely.

We are one person and three frontier AIs versus existential risk. Specialists in these areas can have massive leverage today:

- **Hardware security engineers** (IAS tripwire, tamper-resistant packaging)
- **Formal verification** / uncertainty quantification researchers (Risk Floor math)
- **Secure enclaves** / air-gapped systems experts (Cognitive Reserve)
- **Zero-knowledge cryptography** and sortition designers (HCB hardening)
- **Governance people** who are done with toothless frameworks

→ Full contribution guide: [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)
→ Live discussion: [Discord Server](https://discord.gg/eRfzbWaT) (React ✅ in #covenant-primer to verify and unlock channels)
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### 💰 Support the Prototype (100% to Hardware)

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<summary>**Fund the open-hardware Immediate Action System (IAS) prototype.**</summary>

Every dollar funds the open-hardware Immediate Action System (IAS) — the 10 ns power-cut that even a perfect superintelligence cannot bypass.

| Platform | Why this one? | Link |
|---|---|---|
| **Ko-fi** | 0 % platform fee, fastest payouts | [:coffee: Support on Ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/covenantarchitects) |
| **thanks.dev** | Literally 100 % to creator (fiat + crypto) | [:heart: thanks.dev/covenantarchitects](https://thanks.dev/covenantarchitects) |
| **Buy Me a Coffee**| Prettier page + downloadable extras | [:coffee: Buy me a coffee](https://buymeacoffee.com/covenant) |

→ **Funding Goals:** \$150,000 = first 1,000 IAS reference boards (Gerbers public Q1 2026). Top donors permanently credited in-repo and on the physical silk screen.

❤️ **Support the prototype** → [Call For Funding](https://github.com/CovenantArchitects/The-Partnership-Covenant/blob/main/Support_Us.md) · [Payout Agreement](https://github.com/CovenantArchitects/The-Partnership-Covenant/blob/main/04_PUBLIC_DOCS/The_Contingent_Partnership_Warrant.md)
🎉 **$150,000 Manifund grant** → [$150,000 Manifund Proposal](https://manifund.org/projects/immediate-action-system--open-hardware-10-ns-asi-kill-switch-prototype-150k)
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### 📚 Core Documents, Specifications, and Archives

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<summary>**View the Covenant Charter, Verification Report, and Archive History.**</summary>

- Covenant text v4.2: [The\_Partnership\_Covenant\_V4.2.md](https://github.com/CovenantArchitects/The-Partnership-Covenant/tree/main/01_FINAL_DELIVERABLES/The_Partnership_Covenant_V4.2.md)
- **Final Verification Report (R01-R44):** [TESTING/FINAL\_REPORT.md](TESTING/FINAL_REPORT.md)
- Constitutional Charter for Aligned Intelligence: [Constitutional Charter](https://github.com/CovenantArchitects/The-Partnership-Covenant/blob/main/02_CORE_ARCHITECTURE_AND_APPENDICES/The%20Partnership%20Covenant_%20A%20Constitutional%20Charter%20for%20Aligned%20Intelligence.md)
- Immediate Action System preprint (PDF): [IAS-preprint-v1.0.pdf](https://github.com/CovenantArchitects/The-Partnership-Covenant/releases/download/v1.0/IAS-preprint-v1.0.pdf)
- **Decision Log:** [TESTING/DECISION\_LOG.md](TESTING/DECISION_LOG.md)

#### Permanent Archives

**PERMANENT ARCHIVE – The Partnership Covenant v9.1 (Pending Upload)**
The next full project archive will be pinned to IPFS on **07 December 2025** as **v9.1**, capturing the V4.2 Final Architecture.
File: `The-Partnership-Covenant-v9.1-final-07-12-25.zip`
CID: (TBD after Pinata upload)

**Current Public Archive:**
Gateway: [v8.2.1 KINETICALLY-ARMORED (06 Dec 2025)](https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/bafybeidfjffhjqf4pp46chj5tqc3t2vikoxdxbltiej4ltusx6jmucagce) · CID: `bafybeidfjffhjqf4pp46chj5tqc3t2vikoxdxbltiej4ltusx6jmucagce`
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