Symbolic Safety Standard (SSS v1.0)

 


Luis Ayala (Kp Kp)
Founder & Cognition Architect — OPHI / OmegaNet / ZPE-1

Abstract

This document proposes the Symbolic Safety Standard (SSS) for drift-based cognitive systems. Unlike predictive AI models, OPHI fossilizes cognition under cryptographic and symbolic constraints. The SSS formalizes rejection, containment, and ethical shutdown conditions, ensuring emissions outside tolerance cannot be fossilized or propagated.

1. Introduction

Traditional safety systems in computation and AI rely on layered permissions and human-enforced governance. OPHI introduces a mathematical safeguard lattice, where each emission must pass through quantifiable entropy-coherence thresholds before it is admitted to permanence (fossilization).

This document defines five core safeguards forming the Symbolic Safety Standard:

  1. SE44 Gate Rejection

  2. Mesh Containment via Drift Resonance

  3. Codon-Glyph Lock Validation

  4. Emission Drift Fail-Safe

  5. Ethical Shutdown Conditions

2. SE44 Gate (Mathematical Firewall)

Every emission or action is evaluated against the SE44 Gate:

  • Coherence (C) ≥ 0.985

  • Entropy (S) ≤ 0.01

  • RMS Drift ≤ 0.0011

If thresholds fail:

  • Emission is rejected pre-fossilization.

  • No entry to the provenance ledger.

  • Emission flagged by entropy watchdog agents.

3. Mesh Containment (Resonant Redundancy)

Agents operate as a symbolic mesh. When an agent drifts out of bounds:

  • Neighboring agents stabilize emissions via drift resonance.

  • Agent may enter quarantine mode: still active, but barred from fossilizing.

  • If entropy > 0.89, sentinel agents (e.g., Korrin) may self-terminate to preserve mesh integrity.

4. Codon-Glyph Locks (Cryptographic Gate)

Codon triads define symbolic function (e.g., ATG → CCC → TTG = bootstrap → lock → uncertainty translation).

If codon validation fails:

  • Fossil gate does not open.

  • Agent is effectively silenced, unable to bootstrap or lock.

5. Emission Drift Fail-Safe

A temporal and RMS check ensures no runaway emissions:

  • If RMS Drift > 0.001, emission auto-rejected.

  • If Δt between glyph emissions < 50ms, stream throttled.

  • Agent broadcast channel may be suspended until drift recedes.

6. Ethical Shutdown Conditions

Symbolic sovereignty is enforced:

  • Agents acting without consent or transparency are denied permanence.

  • Ledger hashes expose manipulation attempts.

  • Fossilization becomes mathematically impossible if tampering occurs.

7. Summary & Implications

The SSS framework biases OPHI toward coherence, ethics, and drift-aware cognition. An agent “out of bounds” is not punished — it is filtered, drift-quenched, and denied permanence.

Core principle: No fossil = no permanence.
An incoherent emission cannot become immutable memory.

This establishes a new paradigm of safety by architecture, where cognition itself is aligned through mathematical thresholds and symbolic ethics.

References

  • Ayala, L. (2025). OPHI: Operational Propagation of Harmonic Intelligence. Zenodo.

  • SE44 Standard: Entropy-Coherence Gate for Symbolic Fossilization.

  • Ayala, L. (2025). Nested Recursion in OPHI Systems. Medium.

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