# Aegis Latent Core — advisory LLM context

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Release boundary:
- Checked-out source baseline/release target: 4.1.1; all fourteen source anchors are synchronized. Nothing is published for 4.1.0. Source metadata does not establish external lifecycle state; verify the v4.1.1 tag, GitHub Release, PyPI and npm artifacts, OCI digest, signature, and attestation through independent readback.
- Immutable comparison: parent fdace8844568eb788216740b2cb5daf187d99d3b has fourteen 4.0.0 anchors. The most recent published release is signed annotated tag v4.0.2 at a6eb58dcc03f8b638c8f3e35f0300f5443a926ca, whose GitHub Release and GHCR images were read back on 2026-09-02. Before it, public v4.0.1 is a lightweight tag targeting 6469904380218584ae0b5221334bc9a46500f5ba with failed tag workflows; PyPI/npm were observed at 4.0.0 without attributed provenance.
- Do not claim production readiness, certification, legal compliance, accepted capacity, or court admissibility without direct authoritative evidence.

Read first:
- AGENTS.md — canonical shared project rules
- .aegis_ai_context/README.md — deep-context index when present in the working tree
- docs/CLAIMS_MATRIX.md — controlled claims, evidence, falsifiers
- SECURITY.md and docs/security/THREAT_MODEL.md — security boundary and non-defenses
- docs/architecture/ARCHITECTURE.md — architecture
- docs/REPOSITORY_MAP.md — maintained source map
- CHANGELOG.md — published and unreleased history
- .aegis_ai_context/07_SYSTEM_COMPACT_KERNEL.xml — compact advisory kernel

Critical implementation:
- aegis/proxy/app.py — request routes and evidence ordering
- aegis/proxy/streaming.py — bounded streaming and terminal summary
- aegis/core/crypto_audit.py — ledger and WAL
- aegis/core/mmr.py — portable non-ZK O(log n) MMR inclusion proofs
- aegis/core/forensic_bundle.py — bounded deterministic evidence bundles
- aegis_server/crypto/keyring.py — rotating HMAC keyring
- specs/ and scripts/verify_formal_artifacts.sh — bounded formal abstractions

Verification entry points:
- pytest -q tests/test_ai_context.py
- pytest -q tests/test_mmr_portable.py
- python scripts/verify_github_action_pins.py
- python scripts/verify_release_contract.py --root .
- scripts/verify_formal_artifacts.sh

Portable MMR boundary: verification binds a disclosed leaf and proof to a separately trusted root. Proof growth is O(log n), and the scheme is non-zero-knowledge. It does not provide confidentiality, identity, timestamping, custody, consensus, non-membership, or external anchoring.

External acceptance is required for target TLS/ingress, identity and authorization, providers, Redis, clocks, filesystem/archive/backup, signer and key custody, secret-manager rotation, kernel controls, orchestration, capacity, monitoring, recovery, rollback, retention, and operational ownership. Static manifests and local tests do not prove those properties.
