Summary: Designing an SI-Core is only half the job — the other half is *running it safely at 03:00*.
This guide is a *non-normative ops runbook* for SRE/Ops teams and governance owners: what to put on the *one-page dashboard*, how to wire *alerts → actions*, when to use *safe-mode*, and how to answer the question that always arrives after an incident:
> “Why did the system do *that*?”
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Why It Matters: • Turns “auditable AI” into *operational reality* (not a slide deck) • Makes *ethics + rollback* measurable, actionable, and drillable • Clarifies how humans stay in the loop without becoming the bottleneck • Provides templates for *postmortems, escalation, and regulator-grade explanations*
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What’s Inside: *Core Ops Dashboard (1 page):* • Determinism/consistency, ethics/oversight, rollback/recovery, coverage/audit — with drill-downs that reach offending decisions in *two clicks*
*Alert → Runbook Patterns:* • Examples for ethics index drops and rollback latency degradation • Stabilization actions, scoped safe-mode, and governance handoffs
*Human-in-Loop Operations:* • Safe-mode scopes (domain/tenant/region/risk) • “Why?” view for any effectful action (structured explanation export)
*Reliability Muscle:* • Incident templates, chaos drills, on-call handoffs, and capacity planning (because SI-Core accumulates structure over time)
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📖 Structured Intelligence Engineering Series A field manual for keeping structured intelligence upright — and explainable — under real-world pressure.
Summary: Most autonomy stories quietly assume “someone can intervene in minutes.” Deep space breaks that assumption. With 2–6 hours round-trip latency and intermittent links, an onboard SI-Core must act as a *local sovereign*—while remaining *globally accountable* to Earth.
This note sketches how mission continuity survives when nobody is listening: DTN-style semantic bundles, local vs. global rollback, bounded self-improvement, and auditability that still works after contact windows return.
> Autonomy isn’t a divorce from governance— > it’s a measured loan of authority, under a constitution, with evidence.
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Why It Matters: • Makes “autonomous” mean *operational*, not rhetorical, under light-hour delays • Clarifies how rollback works when you can’t undo physics—only *policy trajectories* • Shows how an onboard core can *self-improve without drifting out of spec* • Treats *silence itself as an observation* (missing logs are governance signals)
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What’s Inside: • Two-core model: *Earth-Core (constitutional/strategic)* vs *Ship-Core (tactical/operational)* • *SCP over DTN* as semantic bundles (priorities, idempotency, meaning checkpoints) • Local rollback vs. epoch-level governance (“retroactive” steering without pretending to reverse time) • Bounded onboard learning + LearningTrace for later audit and resync • Stress scenario walkthrough: micrometeoroid storm, compound failures, and graceful degradation • Metrics framing for deep space: governability, audit completeness, ethics uptime, rollback integrity
Summary: Most stacks “learn” by fine-tuning weights and redeploying — powerful, but opaque. SI-Core already produces *structured evidence* (jump logs, ethics traces, effect ledgers, goal vectors, rollback traces), so learning can be *structural* instead:
*Upgrade policies, compensators, SIL code, and goal structures — using runtime evidence.*
> Learning isn’t a model tweak. > *It’s upgrading the structures that shape behavior.*
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Why It Matters: • Makes improvement *localized and explainable* (what changed, where, and why) • Keeps “self-improvement” *governable* (versioned deltas + review + CI/CD) • Turns incidents/metric drift into *actionable patches*, not postmortem PDFs • Scales to real ops: ethics policies, rollback plans, semantic compression, goal estimators
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What’s Inside: • What “learning” means in SI-Core (and what changes vs. classic ML) • The *Pattern-Learning-Bridge*: where it sits between runtime evidence and governed code • Safety properties: PLB proposes *versioned deltas*, never edits production directly • Validation pipeline: sandbox/simulation → conformance checks → golden diffs → rollout
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📖 Structured Intelligence Engineering Series A non-normative, implementable design for “learning from failures” without sacrificing auditability.
Summary: Specs and whitepapers tell you *what* SI-Core is. This article answers a different question:
> “If I’m on call for an SI-Core / SI-NOS stack wrapped around LLMs and tools, > *what do I actually look at — and what do I do when it goes weird?*”
It’s an operator’s guide to running Structured Intelligence in production: how CAS, EAI, RBL, RIR, SCover, ACR, etc. show up on dashboards, how to set thresholds, and how to turn incidents into structural learning instead of panic.
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Why It Matters:
* Bridges *theory → SRE/MLOps practice* for SI-Core & guardrailed LLM systems * Shows how to treat metrics as *symptoms of structural health*, not vanity numbers * Gives concrete patterns for *alerts, safe-mode, rollback tiers, and ethics outages* * Helps teams run SI-wrapped AI systems *safely, explainably, and audibly* in real environments
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What’s Inside:
* A day-to-day mental model: watching *structure around the model*, not just the model * Ops-flavoured explanations of *CAS, SCI, SCover, EAI, RBL, RIR, ACR, AES, EOH* * Example *“SI-Core Health” dashboard* and green/yellow/red regions * Alert tiers and playbooks for: ethics degradation, rollback integrity issues, coverage gaps * A walkthrough of a realistic *ethics incident* from alert → investigation → rollback → lessons
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📖 Structured Intelligence Engineering Series
This piece sits next to the SI spec and Evaluation Pack as the *runbook layer* — for SRE, MLOps, and product teams who actually have to keep structured intelligence alive in prod.