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CANON PIPELINE // STEP 02: APPROVE

Securing governance transitions behind human compliance supervisors and Ed25519 cryptographic signatures.

When modifications or new statutory rules are ingested, Canon generates an immutable evidence package. A qualified compliance officer or safety maintainer inspects the diffs, verifies legal obligations, and signs off using an Ed25519 hardware keypair.

// Technical Architecture

The Approval step enforces human-in-the-loop governance for all critical invariant transitions. The generated evidence package contains full before-and-after diffs, regulatory citations, and risk scores, sealing the approved state inside an append-only ledger.

// Implemented by AnimusLab

Built Canon Evidence Package Generator and Ed25519 signing interface powering admin.animuslab.dev sovereign node whitelist cockpit.

// Data Flow & Process Execution Diagram

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// Live CLI & Code Execution Example

# Canon Approval & Signing Command
$ canon approve --draft=".canon/drafts/owasp_llm_v2.json" \
  --signer="compliance-officer-01@bank.internal" \
  --keypair="~/.ssh/id_ed25519_gov" \
  --reason="Satisfies EU AI Act Article 12 v2 Log Mandates"

[OK] Evidence Package #EV-9801 Sealed. Signature: ed25519:8f9a2b...

// Key Operational Deliverables

  • //Evidence Packages: Generating comprehensive diff reports detailing rules modified, added, or deleted.
  • //Attributed Audit Records: Binding supervisor keypair signatures to approved governance state changes.
  • //Hash-Chained Ledger: Preventing history rewriting by chaining approval records sequentially in GOVERNANCE.lock.
  • //Regulatory Attestation: Attaching legal justification metadata to every approved invariant update.

// Binding Operational Invariants

1

Article IV Governance First: No machine code execution rule can be modified without explicit signed human authorization.

2

Non-Repudiation: Every approval is tied to a verified cryptographic Ed25519 keypair.

3

Governance Floor: Approval can only raise security severity levels, never silently lower them.