For engineers building agent systems and leadership deploying them responsibly.
Governance Beneath Orchestration
Protocols, not prompts.
DaemonCore sits below your orchestration layer. It doesn't coordinate agents—it defines what they're allowed to do, enforces boundaries structurally, and ensures outputs follow protocol before any action occurs.
The layer that makes AI behaviour enforceable instead of advisory.
The Evolution of AI Control
Where Risk Appears
Orchestration coordinates. But coordination without governance creates gaps.
Drift
Agents interpret instructions differently over time. Without structural constraints, behaviour shifts unpredictably.
Ambiguity
Natural language instructions leave room for interpretation. Edge cases become judgment calls the model makes alone.
Responsibility
When something goes wrong, who's accountable? Prompt-based systems make audit and attribution difficult.
From Instructions to Protocols
DaemonCore doesn't give agents better instructions—it changes what counts as valid output. Agents produce protocol-shaped responses. Those responses are classified and validated before any action occurs. The shift isn't "tell the model to be careful." It's "only protocol-compliant outputs are eligible for execution."
How It Works
Concrete mechanisms, not abstract principles.
Action Protocol
Only protocol-shaped outputs are eligible for action.
Agent output → Protocol validation → Classification → Action (or rejection) MAX Messaging Bus
Typed, schema-validated message routing between agents and systems.
Messages carry type, sender, recipient, payload schema. Malformed messages rejected. Template-Driven Operations
Complex operations follow predefined templates with explicit boundaries.
Code review template defines: scope, checklist, output format, approval gates. What We Promise (and When)
V1 (Current)
- Protocol-shaped output validation
- Message schema enforcement
- Template-constrained operations
- Deterministic boot sequences
- Audit trail for agent actions
V1.5 (Planned)
- Cryptographic action signing
- Hardware-backed attestation
- Cross-agent capability delegation
- Real-time constraint verification
We ship what's working. V1.5 features are in development—we'll announce them when they're ready.
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Status
Kernel V1 specification stable. Protocol validation and MAX bus operational. Public documentation available for review.