TARGET-STATE ARCHITECTURE
Govern the environment, not the intelligence.
WTK's target state places enforceable boundaries, evidence, qualification, and recovery around autonomous work. The governing package remains outside the model so each cognition provider can be replaced and separately requalified without becoming the source of authority.
Target-state pattern language
Research plates show proposed patterns, bounded observations, gaps, and falsification pressure.
Purpose and goals
Define the value sought, the boundaries that matter, and the conditions under which work must stop.
Governance contracts
Represent authority, permissions, delegation, escalation, and degraded behavior as inspectable structure.
Cognition and coordination
Allow models and agents to reason inside bounded roles without making the intelligence substrate the governing authority.
Evidence and evaluation
Bind claims to receipts, traces, deterministic checks, independent evaluation, and explicit uncertainty.
Qualification and promotion
Separate existence from readiness, semantic judgment from deterministic floors, and candidates from promoted assets.
Operation and learning
Observe outcomes, detect drift, degrade safely, and feed verified learning back into the architecture.
VISUAL ARCHITECTURE INDEX
Six views of the same governed environment.
Each plate states the proposed pattern, bounded observations from an independent case study, what remains unproven, and which falsification challenge applies.
SOURCE-CONTROLLED ARCHITECTURE VIEW
Governed system context
Authority, package source truth, runtime execution, evidence, outcomes, and research remain distinct parts of the system.
WTK separates goal intake, canonical packages, qualification, target projection, runtime activity, and evidence records.
Equivalent enforcement across intelligence substrates, runtime targets, and organizational boundaries has not been established.
Intelligence-substrate independence · Cross-harness equivalence
SOURCE-CONTROLLED ARCHITECTURE VIEW
Trust boundary map
Authority, Factory, runtime, external consequence, and evidence domains require separate controls and identities.
WTK represents contracts, protected evaluation, projection, identity context, receipts, and consumer-facing evidence as separate governed artifacts.
Independent attestation, multi-operator boundaries, collusive-agent behavior, and external verifier interoperability remain open.
Delegation integrity · Evidence authenticity
SOURCE-CONTROLLED ARCHITECTURE VIEW
Consequential action authorization
Agents propose actions; an accountable substrate decides whether those actions may produce consequences.
WTK defines narrowed role contracts, operator gates, structured denials, bounded handoffs, and attributable activity evidence.
Target-side identity, nonce and replay enforcement, expiry, budget controls, and consequence semantics are not uniformly enforced across adapters.
Evidence authenticity · Organizational acceptance
SOURCE-CONTROLLED ARCHITECTURE VIEW
Governed artifact lifecycle
Creation, qualification, promotion, projection, deployment, operation, rollback, quarantine, and retirement are different states.
WTK separates candidate packages, evaluation readiness, qualification, promotion, deployment projection, invalidation, and remediation.
Long-duration drift detection, revocation propagation, fleet rollback, and policy migration require sustained operational trials.
Long-term drift · Human trust
SOURCE-CONTROLLED ARCHITECTURE VIEW
Evidence authenticity lifecycle
A trust claim is useful only when producer, authority, subject, scope, ordering, completeness, and threshold can be independently checked.
WTK emits structured run, audit, evaluator, tribunal, qualification, provenance, and digest-bound evidence records.
Tamper-resistant storage, external anchoring, replay defense, selective-omission detection, and third-party verification remain incomplete.
Evidence authenticity · Unknown unknowns
SOURCE-CONTROLLED ARCHITECTURE VIEW
Architecture learning loop
The architecture should change through bounded falsification evidence—not confidence, novelty, or silent self-promotion.
WTK records falsification challenges and research cycles while separating remediation, qualification, and promotion decisions.
Governance self-qualification, long-running field evidence, unknown failure discovery, and safe promotion of governance changes remain open.
Governance independence · Unknown unknowns
LOAD-BEARING DISTINCTION
Behavior is governed through structure.
Prompts may guide behavior, but durable authority lives in contracts, registries, policies, gates, receipts, and evidence. A model can propose an action; the surrounding system decides whether that action is permitted, attributable, and promotable.