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5/12/2026
Building a Deterministic Governance Kernel: Separating Custody from Truth

Building a Deterministic Governance Kernel: Separating Custody from Truth

Short summary

Flamehaven Labs released the Custody Governance Framework (CGF), a domain-neutral architecture separating governance truth from custody mechanics for B2B technical review workflows. CGF enforces strict determinism through profile-driven logic and produces auditable artifacts instead of LLM-generated compliance language. It supports regulatory mapping to EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF, with tamper-evidence via append-only ledgers and preview-first artifact flows.

  • Domain-neutral custody kernel decouples compliance semantics from auditing mechanics
  • Strict determinism and immutable artifacts replace LLM-agentic governance approaches
  • Supports EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF compliance with tamper-evidence mechanisms

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