FOUNDATIONAL ARCHITECTURE / GSA v0.2
Govern before you scale.
GSA defines the authority separations, responsibilities, and invariants for governed, traceable, verifiable systems. Architecture comes before runtime decisions.
01 / ORIGIN
Projects came first
Building different systems revealed recurring problems: who may act, what evidence supports a decision, how context can be reconstructed, and where authorization ends. GSA exists to make those questions explicit and proportional to risk.
02 / AUTHORITY
Inference is not authority
When AI is present, it contributes inference. Authority belongs to the governed system and authorized actors. A model output may be a proposal, classification, or recommendation; it does not gain operational effect by itself.
03 / TRACEABILITY
Conceptual model
A governed system should be able to reconstruct what happened, who participated, what information was used, what authority existed, what action was authorized, and how it was verified.
A reconstructable chain / GSA v0.2
04 / INVARIANTS
Boundaries that hold the system
05 / DIRECTION
What comes next
The next stage is to translate this architectural direction into explicit contracts, mappings, and verifiable evidence, always under human authorization. Whether a runtime is actually needed remains to be evaluated; the architecture does not assume one.
06 / PUBLIC RECORD
Public evidence
GSA v0.2 foundational architecture is the available public evidence. Documentary acceptance does not demonstrate implementation or production conformity.