Governance Engine
Rule-based governance enforcement and validation framework for deterministic payload processing within the Execution Model.
Role in the Execution Model
The governance engine evaluates each canonical payload against a configured rule set before any state root or Verification Record is produced. Approval or rejection is deterministic and auditable.
Rules are versioned and applied in a fixed order. The same payload and rule set always yield the same governance outcome.
Rule Evaluation
- Pre-computation
- Governance runs before hashing and state root computation. A rejected payload does not advance to deterministic state computation.
- Structured decision records
- Each rule produces an explicit decision record suitable for audit and compliance review.
- Deployment configuration
- Rule sets are configured per deployment and environment. Changes follow institutional change-management and release processes.
Default Rule Categories
Version
Protocol and schema versions must be supported by the deployment.
Entity
Entity types and identifiers must conform to declared constraints.
Policy
Data fields and risk classifications are validated against institutional policy rules.
Operational Boundaries
The governance engine does not execute application business logic, allocate network resources, or manage identity credentials. It governs eligibility of structured inputs for the protocol verification pipeline only.