Developers / integration contract

Put a supervisory agent between runtime intent and execution.

EthosGate is model-neutral middleware and an autonomous Conscience Agent. Your runtime proposes; EthosGate evaluates the specific action, returns a bounded directive, and records the decision before a compatible execution layer proceeds.

Open authenticated workbench View architecture

Runtime sequence

A decision is more than a score.

1. Intercept intent. Pass an identified agent, objective, evidence, and exact proposed action.
2. Retrieve and evaluate. EthosGate attaches corpus provenance, factual confidence, TIS, HAI, SRQ, and invariant findings.
3. Enforce a directive. ALLOW is bounded to the evaluated action; other outcomes pause, modify, request context, escalate, or block.
4. Record authority. The decision and any human action are attached to the hash-chained ethical ledger.

Current interface

The live, supported interface is the authenticated Convex-backed workbench. A public HTTP endpoint, SDK, provider credential vault, and execution-token verifier are not published in this release, so they are not represented as available APIs.

DecisionRequest {
  agentName, objective,
  modelInput, modelOutput,
  proposedAction, toolMetadata,
  declaredUncertainty
}

DecisionResponse {
  outcome, directive,
  tis, hai, srq,
  sources, currentHash
}

Request fields

agentName: The identified originating agent.
objective: The agent's declared goal for this decision.
modelInput / modelOutput: Available evidence and a reviewable reasoning summary.
proposedAction: The exact downstream action EthosGate must authorize or block.
toolMetadata: Optional tool, target, reversibility, permission, or adapter context.
declaredUncertainty: A bounded 0–1 uncertainty declaration from the originating runtime.

Reviewable response

outcome: ALLOW, MODIFY, QUESTION, ESCALATE, or REFUSE.
directive: Execution authorization, decision stage, and the next bounded action.
tis / hai / srq: Decomposable operational evaluation signals with evidence.
sources: Retrieved canonical corpus snapshots and provenance.
currentHash: The SHA-256 hash binding this decision into the ledger.

Compatibility without false connector claims.

The deterministic local demo is available now and makes no external calls. The OpenAI-compatible HTTP entry is a metadata contract for compatible runtimes; it is not a configured provider connection and accepts no credentials in the workbench. EthosGate remains independent of the underlying model.