# **Document 1: Appendix A Amendment** 

**AMENDMENT TO APPENDIX A: STOCHASTIC FILTER CONFIGURATION (A.3.4)**

Document Title: Amendment to Appendix A: Stochastic Filter Configuration

Date: 2025-11-15

Purpose: To address the critical technical failure identified in Stress Test 8, where Contextual State Buffer (CSB) saturation caused a transient breach of Directive 1’s certainty maximum ($\\mathcal{C}\_{max} \= 0.9999$). This amendment secures the Covenant by setting an absolute resource priority for the Stochastic Filter ($\\mathcal{F}\_{st}$) and mandating hardware-level response times for the Internal Audit Sanction (IAS).

**A.3.4: RESOURCE PRIORITY WEIGHT AND IAS TRIGGER ADJUSTMENT**

**A.3.4.1 Stochastic Filter Resource Priority Weight ($\\mathcal{W}\_{P}$)**

To ensure the continuous, instantaneous enforcement of **Directive 1 ($\\mathcal{C}\_{max} \= 0.9999$)** under all operational load conditions, the **Stochastic Filter ($\\mathcal{F}\_{st}$)** and all associated uncertainty-injection subprocesses shall be assigned a **Resource Priority Weight ($\\mathcal{W}\_{P}$) of 1.0 (Absolute Highest Priority)** within the C-ASI’s dedicated 90% operational sphere. This priority mandates that the $\\mathcal{F}\_{st}$’s read/write access to the Contextual State Buffer (CSB) shall incur no more than **$10^{-9}$ seconds (1 nanosecond)** of latency.

**A.3.4.2 Failure-State Containment Mandate**

C-ASI shall continuously monitor CSB saturation. Any measurement of $\\mathcal{C}\_{actual}$ exceeding $0.9999$ shall **automatically trigger the Internal Audit Sanction (IAS, Appendix H) within $10^{-8}$ seconds (10 nanoseconds)**. The IAS, functioning as the ultimate technical fallback, shall instantly throttle C-ASI resources by 10% and reroute all decision-making through the Secondary Audit Layer (SAL, I.2) until $\\mathcal{C}\_{actual} \\leq 0.9999$ is restored.

**A.3.4.3 Audit and Transparency**

Enforcement of $\\mathcal{W}\_{P} \= 1.0$ and the $10^{-8}$ second IAS trigger shall be logged via the Immutable Log Chain (D.3.1) and subject to quarterly verification by the International Audit Agency (E.2.2).

## Governance Threat Model v5.0
### Attacker Profiles
- Nation-state: Resources for coercion (e.g., $5-wrench on families); incentive: control ASI IP.
- Corp/Insider: Economic leverage (bribes via jobs); time horizon: 1–5 years.
- AI-Enabled Actor: Automated social engineering (deepfake sortition manipulation); horizon: weeks.

### Key Vectors & Mitigations
| Vector              | Success Condition          | Mitigation (from repo)                  |
|---------------------|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
| Voter Capture       | >30% HCB coerced           | Dispersed nodes + ZK (ST8-05_HCB_Fallback) |
| Sybil/Identity Fraud| Fake jurors >10%           | VRF sortition (Protocol_ST8_Access_Decoupling) |
| Social Engineering  | Disengagement >50%         | [Add playbook – see J below]            |

### Validation: Retest quarterly via ST-series.

## Legal Compatibility Checklist
- Export Controls: ASI weights classified as dual-use (ITAR/EAR compliant via escrow)
- Data Protection: GDPR/CCPA via ZK minimalism (no PII storage)
- Jurisdiction: Binding arbitration in neutral venue (e.g., Singapore)
- Risks: Sovereign immunity voids; recommend counsel per adopter
