# Aegis Latent Core — advisory LLM context

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Release boundary:
- Checked-out source baseline/release target: **5.0.1**; all fourteen source anchors are synchronized, and nothing is published for it. The most recent published release, 5.0.0, was published on 2026-09-16; readback established: signed annotated tag c34d41280ec4a5acb38aa74220eac8f20a9d0aab at commit b2e4335409377442e9dde70ea579c3df08a0c1be, a GitHub Release with 31 uploaded assets, PyPI aegis-latent-sdk 5.0.0, npm aegis-latent-sdk 5.0.0, and GHCR gateway sha256:81d106c9… and dashboard sha256:ec73cba5… with cosign signature objects present. cosign verify and gh attestation verify were not run, and the SHA256SUMS sweep was not run for 5.0.0. **The gateway distribution `aegis-latent-core` is NOT on PyPI at 5.0.0** — its latest there is 4.1.2. Source metadata never establishes external lifecycle state.
- Most recent published release on every surface: **v4.1.2** (readback 2026-09-04: signed annotated tag 860f14177d94c194e5ae7156017d6fa74264e429, GitHub Release with 31 uploaded assets, PyPI `aegis-latent-core` 4.1.2 and `aegis-latent-sdk` 4.1.2, npm `aegis-latent-sdk` 4.1.2, GHCR gateway and dashboard images with cosign signature objects present; `cosign verify` and `gh attestation verify` were not run). Immutable comparison: parent fdace8844568eb788216740b2cb5daf187d99d3b retains fourteen 4.0.0 anchors. Before it, v4.0.2 is signed annotated tag a6eb58dcc03f8b638c8f3e35f0300f5443a926ca (GitHub Release and GHCR images read back 2026-09-02); public v4.0.1 is a lightweight tag at 6469904380218584ae0b5221334bc9a46500f5ba with failed tag workflows, and registries 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
- docs/MODULE_INVENTORY.md — generated per-file inventory: purpose, reachability status, tests, owner
- 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.
