For the last few months, we've been working on a fundamental architectural shift in how autonomous agents are governed. The current industry standard relies almost entirely on probabilistic alignment (RLHF, system prompts, constitutional training). It works until it's jailbroken or the context window overflows. A statistical disposition is not a security boundary.

We've built an alternative: Deterministic Policy Gates. In our architecture, the LLM is completely stripped of execution power. It can only generate an "intent payload." That payload is passed to a process-isolated, deterministic execution environment where it is evaluated against a cryptographically hashed constraint matrix (the constitution). If it violates the matrix, it is blocked. Every decision is then logged to a Merkle-tree substrate (GitTruth) for an immutable audit trail.

We filed 99 provisional patents on this architecture starting January 10, 2026. Crucially, we embedded strict humanitarian use restrictions directly into the patent claims themselves (The Peace Machine Mandate) so the IP cannot legally be used for autonomous weapons, mass surveillance, or exploitation.

I wrote a full breakdown of the architecture, why probabilistic safety is a dead end, and the timeline of how we filed this before the industry published their frameworks: Read the full manifesto here: https://salvatoresystems.medium.com/the-death-of-probabilist...

The full patent registry is public here: https://aos-patents.com

I'm the founder and solo inventor. Happy to answer any questions about the deterministic architecture, the Merkle-tree state persistence, or the IP strategy of embedding ethics directly into patent claims.