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# Attack Resistance & Control Ledger
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Status: Canonical
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Scope: State-Level Threat Model
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Operating Mode: Single-Sovereign, Local-First
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Federation: Optional Witness Augmentation
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## Non-goal
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VaultMesh does not guarantee liveness, availability, or global consensus under adversarial conditions. It guarantees detectability, attribution, and recoverable truth.
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## Pinned Definitions
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- **ShadowReceipt**: An append-only proof emitted when an action is considered but not executed, recording intent, denial reason, and (if applicable) scope narrowing without side effects.
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- **Receipt scroll**: An append-only JSONL event log per domain (e.g., `receipts/treasury/treasury_events.jsonl`).
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- **Merkle root**: A deterministic commitment over a scroll’s hashed leaves using the VaultMesh `VmHash` + `merkle_root` algorithm.
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- **Root file**: A file that stores the current Merkle root for a scroll (typically `ROOT.<scroll>.txt`).
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- **Seal bundle (Ouroboros)**: A deterministic digest over a selected evidence set in the local SQLite ledger, stored as a `proof_artifacts.kind=ouroboros_seal_bundle` artifact.
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- **Anchor (external, optional)**: A timestamp/immutability witness over a seal digest (RFC-3161 / blockchain / etc.), recorded as an additional proof artifact referencing the seal bundle.
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- **Trace id**: A correlation id linking the evidence chain across `tool_invocations`, `mcp_calls`, `proof_artifacts`, and (where emitted) `shadow_receipts`.
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- **Capability / scope**: A revocable, least-privilege right that can be narrowed without rewriting history (Mesh receipts).
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## Operating Assumption
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VaultMesh is designed to remain truthful, auditable, and survivable as a single sovereign system under isolation. Federation is an optional augmentation that increases resilience and reach, but is never required for correctness.
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Primary adversary context: *“You are alone. No peers. No network. No court protection.”*
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## Adversary Classes (State-Level)
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- **Isolation**: network partition, long-term offline operation, selective connectivity denial.
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- **Seizure**: physical confiscation, disk imaging, forced shutdown, forced relocation.
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- **Coercion**: compelled operation, compelled credential disclosure, compelled signing.
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- **Supply chain**: compromised dependencies, poisoned updates, build/release interdiction.
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- **Insider drift**: sequences of individually policy-valid actions that violate long-horizon invariants.
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- **Narrative warfare**: re-framing outages as “lies”, attacking legitimacy rather than mechanics.
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---
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## 🜔 Proof (Immutable Wealth)
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### Invariants
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- **Append-only evidence**: evidence is never rewritten in place; corrections are new events referencing prior ids/hashes.
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- **Deterministic verification**: the same inputs yield the same roots and seal digests.
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- **Detectable tamper**: any change to past events must surface as a root/seal mismatch.
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### Likely Moves
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- Edit/delete old receipts; roll back state to a “clean” snapshot; truncate scrolls.
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- Rewrite root files to match a forged history.
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- Partition the node so anchoring cannot occur.
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### Controls
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- Scrolls are append-only JSONL + deterministic Merkle roots (`ROOT.*.txt`).
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- Seals bind SQLite evidence to a deterministic digest (local witness) that can be copied out-of-band.
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- Optional anchoring adds a time witness when connectivity exists (never required for local correctness).
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### Evidence Artifacts
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- Scrolls: `receipts/**`
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- Roots: `ROOT.*.txt` and `receipts/console/ROOT.console.txt`
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- Local ledger: `.state/ledger.sqlite` (`tool_invocations`, `mcp_calls`, `proof_artifacts`, `shadow_receipts`)
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- Seal bundles: `.state/seals/ouroboros_seal_*.json` + `proof_artifacts.kind=ouroboros_seal_bundle`
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- Anchor receipts: `receipts/guardian/anchor_events.jsonl` (and planned `proof_artifacts.kind=external_anchor`)
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### Drills
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- Recompute and compare roots (no writes): `python3 cli/vm_cli.py guardian compute-roots`
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- Check whether on-disk roots match computed roots: `python3 cli/vm_cli.py guardian status`
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- Emit an anchor cycle (writes roots + anchor receipt): `python3 cli/vm_cli.py guardian anchor --backend local`
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- Seal recent evidence (deterministic digest over ledger tables): `python3 cli/ledger.py seal --since "7 days"`
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---
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## 🜃 Energy (Scarce Wealth)
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### Invariants
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- **No action without cost**: actions require a debit/charge.
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- **No cost without record**: debits/credits are receipted; state is reconstructable from receipts.
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- **No silent denial**: denied/aborted high-impact actions produce a ShadowReceipt (proof of restraint), not silence.
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### Likely Moves
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- Spam/flood to force writes, bury signals in volume, or extract unbounded work.
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- Coercive drain of budgets to force depletion or induce “just this once” shortcuts.
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### Controls
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- Debit-before-write for mutating operations; budgets enforce ceilings.
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- Compartment budgets by purpose; require stronger capabilities for high-impact budgets.
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- “Freeze” and “contain” responses narrow authority; they never grant new authority.
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### Evidence Artifacts
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- Treasury scroll + root: `receipts/treasury/treasury_events.jsonl`, `ROOT.treasury.txt`
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- Ledger witness of debits/denials: `.state/ledger.sqlite` (`tool_invocations`, `shadow_receipts`)
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- Seal bundles over the above: `.state/seals/ouroboros_seal_*.json`
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### Drills
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- Create a seal over a high-volume window and confirm it is stable on replay: `python3 cli/ledger.py seal --since "1 day"`
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- Confirm denials are queryable (ShadowReceipts are sealed even if not rooted):
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- `sqlite3 .state/ledger.sqlite "select ts,horizon_id,reason_unrealized,trace_id from shadow_receipts order by datetime(ts) desc limit 20;"`
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---
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## 🜍 Intelligence (Auditable Consciousness)
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### Invariants
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- **Bounded automation**: analysis may run, but execution requires capability + receipt trail.
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- **Legible decisions**: reasoning/uncertainty is recorded as evidence, not “trust the model”.
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- **Temporal defensibility**: “locally allowed” is insufficient if a long-horizon invariant is violated.
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### Likely Moves
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- Drift sequences: individually allowed steps that collectively break invariants.
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- Poisoned telemetry: adversarial signals to induce unsafe policies or overblocking.
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- “Optimize away restraint”: remove proof-of-denial records to reduce friction.
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### Controls
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- DriftGuard pattern: detect long-horizon invariant violations and deny execution while emitting a ShadowReceipt.
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- Quarantine: treat suspicious signals as inputs to proposals (artifacts), not direct law rewrites.
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- Replay + seal: decisions are reviewable through deterministic seals over evidence sets.
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### Evidence Artifacts
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- ShadowReceipts: `.state/ledger.sqlite` table `shadow_receipts`
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- Correlated evidence chain: `.state/ledger.sqlite` tables `tool_invocations`, `mcp_calls`, `proof_artifacts`
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- Automation scroll (if/when used): `receipts/automation/automation_events.jsonl`, `ROOT.automation.txt`
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### Drills
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- Create a ShadowReceipt for a denied path (proof of restraint), then seal the window:
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- `python3 cli/ledger.py seal --since "1 day"`
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- Confirm trace correlation is preserved (and treat gaps as audit failures):
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- `python3 cli/ledger.py last --n 50`
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## ☿ Trust (Circulating Authority)
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### Invariants
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- **No ambient trust**: rights are explicit capabilities with scopes.
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- **Revocation is additive**: power can shrink without erasing history.
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- **Containment > blame**: automatic responses narrow scopes; they do not expand authority.
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### Likely Moves
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- Key theft / replay; attempt to broaden scope “just for recovery”.
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- Coercion to compel signing or privileged action.
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### Controls
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- Least-privilege, short-lived capabilities; explicit scopes; revocation receipts.
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- For irreversible actions: time-locks and/or multi-party approval (policy-dependent).
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- Record refusals as ShadowReceipts; never “black-hole” denied operations.
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### Evidence Artifacts
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- Mesh capability receipts + root: `receipts/mesh/mesh_events.jsonl`, `ROOT.mesh.txt`
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- Identity receipts + root: `receipts/identity/identity_events.jsonl`, `ROOT.identity.txt`
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- ShadowReceipts for denied/coerced paths: `.state/ledger.sqlite` `shadow_receipts`
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### Drills
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- Revoke and verify containment:
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- (emit revoke) verify it appears in `receipts/mesh/mesh_events.jsonl`
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- recompute roots: `python3 cli/vm_cli.py guardian compute-roots`
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---
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## 🜞 Time (Continuity Across Decades)
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### Invariants
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- **Portability**: proofs can be verified from artifacts alone.
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- **Legibility**: tools and formats remain understandable without a priesthood.
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- **Recoverability**: state can be reconstructed from receipts + seals.
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### Likely Moves
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- Long-term offline storage; partial artifact survival; missing dependencies; bit rot.
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- Availability attacks misframed as correctness failures (narrative warfare).
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### Controls
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- Boring formats: JSONL + SQLite + text roots.
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- Archaeology drill: restore from a cold copy and re-derive roots and seals.
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- Explicitly separate **truth** from **availability** (see Non-goal).
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### Evidence Artifacts
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- Local ledger: `.state/ledger.sqlite`
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- Scrolls + roots: `receipts/**`, `ROOT.*.txt`, `receipts/console/ROOT.console.txt`
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- Constitutional mapping: `spec/BLUEPRINT_SPEC.md`, `spec/MAPPING.md`
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### Drills
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- Cold-restore verification: copy artifacts to a new directory and run:
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- `python3 cli/vm_cli.py guardian status`
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- `python3 cli/ledger.py seal --since "365 days"`
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---
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## Federation (Optional Witness Augmentation)
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Federation is not correctness. It is redundancy and cross-witnessing.
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- Peers may mirror roots/seals to increase survivability and detect targeted rollback.
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- Disagreement is an incident artifact, not a correctness failure of the local node.
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