Sovereign
Authority
Agent Instrumentation and Management Specification
An open specification for governed sovereign inference.
The industry is converging on the meta-harness—the layer above your coding agents that coordinates them, remembers across sessions, and sets policy. XSI-AIMS™ is an open governance specification for that layer: sovereign inference, authority, observability, evidence, and controlled machine interaction. It is public and inspectable; XSI commercial products are implementations of it.
XSI Helm™ is the human operating surface above compliant XSI infrastructure. The specification beneath it still governs.
PublicInspectable and implementable
Dual-harnessReasoning separated from effects
GovernedAuthority and evidence are structural
Closed topology22 canonical paths
A frame the products operate within
Authority and action occupy different places.
AIMS is not a model, an agent, an application, Helm, or the XSI commercial platform. It defines the architecture and governance conditions under which compliant systems operate.
The specification wins. The User Manual explains the architecture; conformance is determined by the normative specification.
Human authority
Autonomous capability does not erase organizational authority.
Authority originates with the user, reaches the system through the northbound surface, moves through the governed topology, and returns with evidence of what happened.
The archetypes
Roles separate responsibilities inside the governed system.
These images are illustrative. Canonical topology, role definitions, and permitted paths remain controlled by the specification.
Visionary
Generative planning
Architect
Constraining planning
Provider
Resource formation
Orchestrator
Integration
Enforcer
Constraint enforcement
Articulator
Output formation
Sustainer
Long-running work
Relay
Internal firewall
Executor
Sole external application gateway
Gap: conformance tooling, registries, and implementation guidance will continue to mature around the open specification. The normative requirements remain the source of truth.