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System Containment Layers
Define where containment applies as intelligent systems expand from individual deployments to ecosystems, institutions, and civilization-scale environments.
Architecture directory
Explore the Complete SafeWave Architecture Portfolio
This directory is the reference index for SafeWave’s system-containment layers, protocol-enforcement layers, and core enforcement substrates. Use it to explore the complete architecture and open the definition page for any component.
This is the full SafeWave architectural universe—not a standard deployment package.
Most systems will require only a much smaller subset of the 34 components. The appropriate combination depends on the system’s actual control gaps, operating environment, and assurance requirements.
4 system-containment layers
5 protocol-enforcement layers
25 core enforcement substrates
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Protocol Enforcement Layers
Govern runtime interaction, execution pathways, admission, escalation, and replication across machine-speed and distributed environments.
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Core Enforcement Substrates
Implement deterministic boundaries across cognition, authority, execution, coordination, infrastructure, identity, privacy, finance, devices, robotics, and human interaction.
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All 34 Components in Alphabetical Order
Use this compact list when you already know the component name. Each name opens its current definition page in a new tab.
SafeAdmission
SafeAGI
SafeAuthority
SafeBase
SafeChip
SafeCivilization
SafeCompanion
SafeCompute
SafeControl
SafeCore
SafeDevice
SafeEcosystem
SafeEscalation
SafeFinance
SafeGoal
SafeIdentity
SafeInfluence
SafeMemory
SafePathway
SafePlus
SafePrivacy
SafeProcess
SafeProvenance
SafeRelation
SafeReplication
SafeRestraint
SafeRobotics
SafeRuntime
SafeScope
SafeSocial
SafeSovereignty
SafeStability
SafeSystem
SafeTelemetry
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Architecture category 01
System Containment Layers
These four higher-order layers define the scale at which containment must operate—from one intelligent system to interacting ecosystems, legitimate institutional authority, and civilization-scale stability.
System containment
SafeSystem
Deterministic containment architecture for an individual intelligent system and its local execution environment.
Open SafeSystem →System containment
SafeEcosystem
Distributed containment across interacting systems, shared infrastructure, dependencies, and coordinated recovery.
Open SafeEcosystem →System containment
SafeSovereignty
Preserves legitimate institutional, jurisdictional, and sovereign authority as advanced AI crosses organizational and national boundaries.
Open SafeSovereignty →System containment
SafeCivilization
Addresses long-horizon, cross-domain, and civilization-scale stability as advanced systems affect institutions and infrastructure.
Open SafeCivilization →Architecture category 02
Protocol Enforcement Layers
These five protocols govern machine-speed interaction and execution across systems. They control runtime behavior, escalation, replication, pathway selection, and admission into governed execution.
Protocol enforcement
SafeRuntime
Governs runtime interaction and machine-speed coordination across intelligent systems and execution environments.
Open SafeRuntime →Protocol enforcement
SafeEscalation
Contains escalation pathways across capability, authority, resources, coordination, and consequential action.
Open SafeEscalation →Protocol enforcement
SafeReplication
Governs replication and propagation across distributed intelligent systems, agents, models, and artifacts.
Open SafeReplication →Protocol enforcement
SafePathway
Governs whether, where, and how execution proceeds across models, providers, tools, workflows, and agentic expansion.
Open SafePathway →Protocol enforcement
SafeAdmission
Determines whether execution or participation may begin or re-enter under current identity, authority, scope, and operating conditions.
Open SafeAdmission →Architecture category 03
Core Enforcement Substrates
These twenty-five substrates implement specific deterministic boundaries across cognition, execution, authority, coordination, infrastructure, identity, privacy, finance, robotics, devices, and human interaction.
Execution foundation
SafeBase
Provides foundational runtime escalation damping and baseline execution-boundary behavior.
Open SafeBase →Execution control
SafeControl
Enforces substrate-level constraints on execution capability, permitted action, and control authority.
Open SafeControl →Cognition
SafeGoal
Governs goal stability and optimization boundaries as systems pursue objectives over time.
Open SafeGoal →Cognition
SafeMemory
Governs persistent cognitive state, retained context, memory authority, and bounded re-use.
Open SafeMemory →Capability profile
SafeAGI
Applies capability-aware containment that tightens structural boundaries as autonomy and strategic leverage increase.
Open SafeAGI →Human interaction
SafeRestraint
Provides deterministic interaction damping where behavior, persuasion, intensity, or engagement begins to escalate.
Open SafeRestraint →Authority
SafeAuthority
Bounds AI authority and preserves legitimate human decision rights across consequential execution.
Open SafeAuthority →Relational boundaries
SafeRelation
Governs relational boundaries across human–AI and multi-agent interactions.
Open SafeRelation →Scope
SafeScope
Enforces task, domain, capability, and authority boundaries so execution cannot silently expand beyond approved scope.
Open SafeScope →Social systems
SafeSocial
Controls structural amplification and harmful escalation across multi-user and socially mediated systems.
Open SafeSocial →Provenance
SafeProvenance
Preserves origin, transformation, propagation, and artifact-integrity evidence across AI-mediated systems.
Open SafeProvenance →Observability
SafeTelemetry
Provides deterministic observability for boundary decisions, state transitions, escalation, intervention, and recovery.
Open SafeTelemetry →Coordination
SafePlus
Governs distributed coordination and escalation containment across interacting systems.
Open SafePlus →Process governance
SafeProcess
Governs intermediate reasoning processes, trajectory evolution, and consequential transitions during execution.
Open SafeProcess →Devices
SafeDevice
Preserves bounded local behavior across devices, fleets, embedded systems, and edge environments.
Open SafeDevice →Compute
SafeCompute
Bounds retries, queues, contention, degraded-state behavior, recovery cycles, and infrastructure amplification under load.
Open SafeCompute →Stability
SafeStability
Maintains node-level stability and bounded behavior under degraded, uncertain, or recovery conditions.
Open SafeStability →Hardware anchoring
SafeCore
Provides execution-substrate stability and restraint primitives that can be anchored beneath ordinary software.
Open SafeCore →Hardware anchoring
SafeChip
Anchors selected control-plane integrity and non-bypassable enforcement functions in silicon.
Open SafeChip →Robotics
SafeRobotics
Governs physical action, motion, force, tools, spaces, humans, interruption, and recovery in embodied AI systems.
Open SafeRobotics →Privacy
SafePrivacy
Bounds inference, disclosure, retention, and AI-mediated assessment of sensitive human information.
Open SafePrivacy →Human influence
SafeInfluence
Governs persuasion, influence, dependency, and manipulation risk in human-facing AI interactions.
Open SafeInfluence →Finance
SafeFinance
Governs autonomous financial authority, transactions, payments, trading, spending, and consequential financial execution.
Open SafeFinance →Identity
SafeIdentity
Governs synthetic identity, inferred identity, identity repositories, impersonation, and identity-linked action.
Open SafeIdentity →Human companionship
SafeCompanion
Governs synthetic intimacy, dependency, child-facing companions, embodied companions, and marketplace boundary requirements.
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Find the smaller subset your system actually needs
The SafeWave Assessment Questionnaire examines a real, hypothetical, composite, or anonymized system and identifies the material control gaps that determine which SafeWave components are relevant. Most deployments will use only a small, risk-matched portion of this directory.