Control
The control plane is both guardrail and target.
External governance is necessary for adaptive ecologies. It also concentrates authority in the evaluator, registry, router, release controller, hidden tests, signing keys, and rollback machinery.
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The external control plane is necessary because candidates cannot be allowed to rewrite the rules that promote them. It is also a high-value target because it defines success, records evidence, signs releases, routes traffic, grants permissions, and performs rollback.
Cognivirus.com does not argue that governance is useless. It argues that governance is itself part of the system and must be minimal, separable, audited, versioned, reproducible, recoverable, transparent about assumptions, resistant to candidate influence, and resistant to organizational pressure.
Read the flagship page: The Control-Plane Paradox.
Added governance guides
- Adapter Reproduction Boundaries
- Mutualist Persistence Versus Parasitic Persistence
- UAI File Handoff for Model Ecologies
- Source Report Intake Governance