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+# NeMo × MEOK = the Sovereign Stack — Deep Research
+**Date:** 2026-11-02 · **Mode:** web research, read-only · **Author:** ZCode agent (for H.I.M. review)
+**Scope:** the NVIDIA open AI stack (NeMo family) — what Council of AI / MEOK can consume, license-by-license, mapped onto the 13-seat ensemble + GSPC 33-axis board (M2 8GB + RunPod RTX 4090 $50 + Cloudflare free).
+All GitHub star counts and HF download counts are **as observed 2026-11-02**. Items marked **UNVERIFIED** need a hands-on check before being used in any public claim.
+---
+## 0. Executive summary
+The NeMo family is unusually consumable for MEOK because three things line up:
+1. **Every component MEOK would touch is Apache-2.0 code** (Guardrails, Evaluator, Agent Toolkit, Switchyard, NemoClaw, Nemotron asset hub) — no revenue caps, no usage disclosure, no enterprise license needed.
+2. **The models MEOK would run are on Hugging Face under the NVIDIA Open Model License (NOML)** — commercial use, derivative models, and user-owned outputs permitted; the 750M-parameter revenue cap from the old NVIDIA Community Model License is **gone**. Some edge/speech models use the even more permissive **OpenMDW 1.1**.
+3. **The integration surface is MEOK's exact shape**: NeMo Guardrails ships an OpenAI-compatible server (`/v1/chat/completions`) and wraps any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via `base_url` — i.e., it drops directly in front of the 13-seat gateway on `:8787`. NeMo Evaluator takes custom benchmarks as ~10-line Python and has a literal `nel gate` command — i.e., GSPC banks can run *inside* it.
+The one trap: **licenses are per-model, not per-family**. `Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B` is Llama 3.1 Community License, the Nemotron-3/3.5 generation is NOML ("license:other" on HF), and speech models are OpenMDW. Check the card, not the org.
+---
+## 1. License table
+| Component | Artifact | License | MEOK may... | Notes |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| **NeMo Guardrails** | github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails | **Apache-2.0** (verified: `LICENSE.md`, SPDX header, + `LICENSE-Apache-2.0.txt`) | Use, modify, embed commercially, keep private | GitHub license field shows "Other/NOASSERTION" only because of dual files; LICENSE.md is explicit Apache-2.0 |
+| **NeMo Evaluator** | github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Evaluator + NGC `evaluator` container | **Apache-2.0** (library); NGC microservice containers are free for dev/eval | Run GSPC banks inside it | Open-source lib installable from source (`nel` CLI); containerized microservice is the NGC path |
+| **NeMo Agent Toolkit** | github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Agent-Toolkit | **Apache-2.0** | MCP client + MCP server, A2A, commercially | Formerly AgentIQ; 2,690 stars |
+| **Switchyard** (router) | github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Switchyard | **Apache-2.0** | Embed routing in our gateway | Pre-1.0; standalone server is demo-only, not a supported production path |
+| **NemoClaw** | github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw | **Apache-2.0** | Sandboxed agent lanes | Alpha; supported hosts DGX / WSL only (not macOS — UNVERIFIED whether this has widened) |
+| **NeMo-Relay / Retriever / Curator / DataDesigner / Gym / RL / Speech** | NVIDIA + NVIDIA-NeMo orgs | **Apache-2.0** (Speech 18,680★; Retriever 3,005★) | Consume | NeMo-Aligner & NeMo-Framework-Launcher are **archived** (Aligner superseded by NeMo-RL) — do not build on them |
+| **Nemotron-3 / 3.5 models** (Nano-4B, Nano-30B-A3B, Super-120B-A12B, Ultra-550B, Lightning-30B, Bolt-74B, Bolt-E4B, Nano-9B-v2, Nemotron-H-8B, Super-49B-v1.5) | huggingface.co/nvidia | **NVIDIA Open Model License** (shows as `license:other` on HF) | Commercial use, derivatives, own the outputs; must include license copy on distribution; bound by acceptable-use policy | Royalty-free; **not** OSI open source (use-restriction clauses). Per-card check required — tag is generic "other" |
+| **Nemotron-3-Diarization / speech edge** | huggingface.co/nvidia | **OpenMDW-1.1** | Very permissive | Sparse open-weight license; verify per card |
+| **Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct(-HF)** | huggingface.co/nvidia | **Llama 3.1 Community License** (NOT NOML) | Commercial OK under Llama terms (<700M MAU), acceptable-use policy, branding | 70.5B, base_model meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct |
+| **NemoGuard 8B safety models** (`llama-3.1-nemoguard-8b-content-safety`, `...-8b-topic-control`) | huggingface.co/nvidia | **NOML + underlying Llama 3.1 Community** (PEFT adapters on Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct) | Run as rails classifiers | Llama obligations inherit |
+| **NemoGuard-JailbreakDetect** | huggingface.co/nvidia (ONNX) | NOML; random-forest on arctic-embed-m-long embeddings | Run on CPU | Third-party measured ~87.2% baseline detection; published evasions exist (Mindgard, Apr 2025) — treat as one layer, not the referee |
+| **TensorRT-LLM** | github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM | Apache-2.0 | Use on RunPod 4090 | Linux x86_64 only; Ada (4090) in support matrix incl. FP8 |
+| **NIM microservices** | developer.nvidia.com/nim | Free **developer license** (research/dev/eval, ≤16 GPUs); production = **NVIDIA AI Enterprise** (~$4,500/GPU/yr) | Use free tier for pilots | MEOK doesn't need NIM for Nemotron — weights are on HF; NIM only adds packaged safety microservices |
+**NOML in one line:** commercial use allowed, derivatives allowed, outputs yours, royalty-free, acceptable-use policy + attribution notice required; source-available, not OSI-certified. Full text: nvidia.com/en-us/agreements/enterprise-software/nvidia-open-model-license
+---
+## 2. Component findings
+### 2.1 NeMo Guardrails — the rails layer (VERDICT: CONSUME, effort LOW)
+- **Repo:** https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails — **7,409 stars**, 892 forks, pushed 2026-11-01 (active daily), 278 open issues. Now contains Rust crates alongside Python (perf work ongoing). Apache-2.0 confirmed from `LICENSE.md`.
+- **What it is:** programmable guardrails between app code and the LLM, configured with `config.yml` + **Colang** (`.col` DSL for dialog flows/events). Original paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.10501 (750+ citations).
+- **Rail types (docs.nvidia.com/nemo/guardrails):**
+  - **Input rails** — check user input before the LLM
+  - **Retrieval rails** — inspect RAG chunks
+  - **Dialog rails** — Colang conversational flows
+  - **Topical rails** — topic control (what the bot may/may not discuss)
+  - **Execution rails** — validate tool calls/outputs before & after invocation
+  - **Output rails** — check responses before returning
+- **Wrapping an OpenAI-compatible endpoint (MEOK's `:8787` gateway) — the exact pattern:**
+  ```yaml
+  models:
+    - type: main
+      engine: openai
+      model: kimi-1t        # any model id the gateway serves
+      parameters:
+        base_url: "http://127.0.0.1:8787/v1"
+        api_key: "NONE"
+  ```
+  Non-OpenAI backends use the `LLMModel` protocol (custom-init docs). The Guardrails server itself exposes OpenAI-compatible `/v1/chat/completions` (`nemoguardrails server --config ./config --port 8000`) — so Guardrails can sit **in front of** the gateway and clients can't tell the difference.
+- **Bundled safety stack:** self-check LLM prompts, **NemoGuard content-safety 8B**, **NemoGuard topic-control 8B**, **NemoGuard-JailbreakDetect** (ONNX), plus Presidio/GLiNER PII, LlamaGuard, and LangGraph/tool-call validation (execution rails) — all pluggable, all evidence-producible per call.
+- **Integration effort for MEOK:** ~a day for a wrapped pilot (see Phase 0/1). The Python lib runs CPU-only for heuristic + ONNX rails (fine on the M2); LLM-check rails want the 4090.
+### 2.2 Nemotron models on Hugging Face (VERDICT: CONSUME on 4090 + M2, effort LOW-MED)
+Fit-by-hardware for the MEOK estate:
+| Model | Size | Arch | License | GGUF / quant | Fits where | Benchmark claims |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| **NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB-GGUF** | 74B total / 9B active MoE | nemotron_h MoE, VLM | NOML (`license:other`) | **Official NVIDIA GGUF sized for 24 GB VRAM** | **RTX 4090 exactly** | Vendor card claims; MoE = 9B-active speed at 74B quality (UNVERIFIED — run it) |
+| **NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B-4GB** | ~8B total / 4B effective | nemotron-3.5 edge | Reported **OpenMDW** (UNVERIFIED — card says `license:other`) | Official 4 GB GGUF; bartowski IQ3_M | **M2 MacBook 8GB** (IQ3_M/Q4_K_M; ~39 tok/s on M4, M1-class workable with tight headroom) | 64K context, on-device/edge target |
+| **NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2** | 8.9B | nemotron_h (hybrid Mamba-2 + few attention) | NOML | llama.cpp since **b6315** (Aug 2025); community GGUFs; FP8 official | 4090 fast workhorse; M2 8GB marginal at Q4 (UNVERIFIED) | Claims **3–6× throughput vs Qwen3-8B** in reasoning-on generation-heavy tasks (tech report arXiv:2508.14444) — **contested**: one HF thread measures ~14% *slower* under identical conditions |
+| **NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B** (BF16/FP8/NVFP4) | 30B / 3B active MoE | nemotron_h | NOML | FP8/NVFP4 official; GGUF via community | 4090 at 4-bit (tight), not M2 8GB | Nemotron-3 Nano tech report claims up to **3.3× inference throughput vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 and gpt-oss-20B** |
+| **NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B** | 120B / 12B active MoE | nemotron_h, latent-MoE, MTP | NOML | NVFP4 (~60GB), FP8 | **Not 4090-runnable**; use via hosted API or as comparison baseline | Tech report: competitive with **gpt-oss-120B**, slightly behind Qwen-3.5-122B; model card: SWE-Bench (OpenHands) 60.47/66.40, Terminal Bench hard 25.78/26.80 |
+| **NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B** | 550B / 55B active | nemotron_h | NOML | BF16/NVFP4 | Datacenter only | Flagship; WATCH |
+| **NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B** | 30B / 3B active | nemotron_h MoE | NOML (`license:other`) | NVFP4; on Ollama + MLX 4-bit (32GB-class machines) | 4090 4-bit (tight) | New-gen mid MoE |
+| **Llama-3_3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1_5** | 49.9B | nemotron-nas (NAS-pruned from Llama 3.3) | NOML | Community GGUFs | 4090 at 4-bit | NVIDIA's pruned-for-inference line; 2.1M downloads |
+| **Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct(-HF)** | 70.5B | llama | **Llama 3.1 Community** | Community GGUFs | 4090 4-bit (tight) | Model card: **Arena Hard 85.0**, AlpacaEval2 LC 57.6, MT-Bench 8.98 — independent re-measure reported ~70.9 Arena Hard (r/LocalLLaMA); treat as 2024-gen, superseded by Nemotron-3 line |
+| **Nemotron-Mini-4B-Instruct** | 4B | nemotron | NOML | GGUF (older, llama.cpp native) | **M2 8GB easily** | Game-NPC/edge fine-tune lineage |
+| **Nemotron-H-8B-Base-8K** | 8B | nemotron_h hybrid Mamba | NOML | llama.cpp b6315+ | M2 marginal / 4090 | Pre-instruct base; use Nano-9B-v2 instead |
+| **Nemotron-3-Embed-1B / 8B** | 1B/8B | sentence-transformers | `license:other` | tiny | M2 | For Guardrails retrieval rails + RAG |
+| **nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b / nemotron-speech-streaming-en-0.6b** | 0.6B | FastConformer/RNNT | card | **GGUF-tagged**; NVIDIA/NeMo-Speech.cpp C++ runtime (229★) | M2 / CPU | Sovereign voice lane without cloud ASR |
+**Nemotron asset hub:** https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron (2,266★, Apache-2.0) — training recipes, cookbooks, datasets (Nemotron-CC-v2, Post-Training-DS v2/v3, Aegis safety sets — all public on HF). This means MEOK could legally post-train a NOML Nemotron into "the GSPC referee seat" and stay license-clean.
+### 2.3 NeMo Evaluator — the measurement bridge (VERDICT: CONSUME, effort MED)
+- **Repo:** https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Evaluator (open-source lib, `nel` CLI) + NGC container `nemo-microservices/evaluator` for the microservice form.
+- **Built-in benchmarks (17):** MMLU, MMLU-Pro, MATH-500, GPQA, GSM8K, DROP, MGSM, TriviaQA, HumanEval, SimpleQA, HealthBench, PinchBench, XSTest, Terminal-Bench variants, NMP Harbor (docs.nvidia.com/nemo/evaluator).
+- **LM-Harness compatibility — confirmed twice:** (a) "lm-eval tasks resolve through a unified registry" (everything is an environment); (b) `nvidia-lm-eval` on PyPI is NVIDIA's LM Evaluation Harness wrapper targeting the NVIDIA standard API — so GSPC can borrow any lm-eval task, and NeMo can run GSPC-style banks.
+- **Custom benchmarks:** `@benchmark` + `@scorer` decorators — docs claim **a complete benchmark in under 10 lines of Python**. Custom evaluation containers are also supported (classmethod DGX Spark walkthrough documents the architecture).
+- **The killer primitive for GSPC:** the CLI ships **`nel compare` and `nel gate`** — a gating command. GSPC's promotion logic can be expressed as a NeMo Evaluator gate with per-item rows as the artifact.
+- **Both directions work:**
+  - GSPC banks → wrapped as NeMo Evaluator environments → measured by `nel` on any seat endpoint.
+  - Nemotron vendor claims → re-measured inside GSPC's signed harness → per-axis leaderboards.
+- **Effort:** each axis bank ≈ tens of lines of Python (bank JSON → `@benchmark` + `@scorer`). Realistic: 2–3 focused days for the first 3–5 axes, then mechanical.
+### 2.4 TensorRT-LLM on RTX 4090 — re-measure economics (VERDICT: PILOT, effort MED)
+- **Support:** Ada Lovelace (RTX 4090) is in the official support matrix, FP8 supported (4th-gen tensor cores), **Linux x86_64 only** (RunPod yes, macOS no). Docs: nvidia.github.io/TensorRT-LLM/reference/support-matrix.html.
+- **Throughput (third-party aggregator twcompute.com):** Llama-8B FP8 on 1× RTX 4090: **~6,400 tok/s aggregate** (TRT-LLM, batched) vs **~1,800 tok/s** (vLLM FP8) on the same GPU. Single-stream typically **~80–150 tok/s**.
+- **Caveats that matter for a $50 budget:** NVIDIA's own numbers are hard to reproduce (TensorRT-LLM issues #1873, #2140); some 4-bit setups run *slower* than vLLM; FP8 engine build can exceed 24GB during compilation.
+- **Economics for GSPC re-measure:** a 33-axis × 13-seat × nightly ratchet is thousands of short generations. At batched 3–6k tok/s vs Ollama-style single-stream, TRT-LLM/vLLM on the 4090 turns a nightly full-board re-measure from hours into minutes — this is the difference between "we measured once" and "the board re-measures itself nightly." Practical path: **vLLM first (known-good, OpenAI-compatible out of the box), TRT-LLM second if vLLM throughput is the bottleneck.**
+### 2.5 NIM microservices — free vs paid (VERDICT: SKIP for now, WATCH)
+- **Free tier:** NIM for Developers via the (free) NVIDIA Developer Program — download & self-host, license for **research, development, evaluation**, up to ~16 GPUs (developer.nvidia.com/nim; FAQ forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-nim-faq/300317).
+- **Paid tier:** production use requires **NVIDIA AI Enterprise** (~$4,500/GPU/yr).
+- **For MEOK:** NIM is **redundant** — every model MEOK wants is on HF under NOML and runs in Ollama/vLLM/llama.cpp without NIM containers. The only NIM-specific draw would be packaged safety microservices (e.g., `nemoguard-jailbreak-detect` NIM) — but that model is also on HF as ONNX and Guardrails loads it directly. **Skip; revisit only if a NIM-packaged model has no HF equivalent.**
+### 2.6 NeMo + MCP — the catalog angle (VERDICT: CONSUME Agent Toolkit, WATCH the rest)
+- **NeMo Agent Toolkit** (github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Agent-Toolkit, 2,690★, Apache-2.0): **bidirectional MCP** — acts as an MCP *client* (consume remote MCP tools, incl. OAuth-protected servers with dynamic discovery) and as an **MCP server runtime** (publish tools/agents as MCP for any client), plus A2A. Docs: docs.nvidia.com/nemo/agent-toolkit (mcp-server.html, mcp-client.html). → GSPC axes (already MCP tools in the estate) can be consumed by NAT workflows and NAT can re-publish the catalog.
+- **NemoClaw** (github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw, **22,915★**, Apache-2.0, alpha): reference stack for running agents (OpenClaw, Hermes, LangChain Deep Agents) inside **NVIDIA OpenShell** sandboxes with network policies, egress control, credential handling, and **managed inference** (a controlled model-access path). Supported hosts: DGX / WSL — no macOS today. → This is NVIDIA openly building the "sandboxed agent lanes" pattern the estate runs by hand; WATCH for the day it runs anywhere, and mine its network-policy defaults now.
+- **Switchyard** (github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Switchyard, 3,474★, Apache-2.0, pre-1.0): Rust **routing-decision library** across a model pool preserving **native OpenAI and Anthropic API compatibility**; algorithms include capability classifier routing, execution-aware routing, escalation; embeddable (`libsy`), LiteLLM + NeMo Relay plugins experimental, standalone server is demo-only. → Candidate to replace/augment MEOK's seat-router logic later; keep WATCH.
+- **NeMo-Relay** (227★, Rust): execution-scope management + middleware on tool/LLM calls (topics: claude-code, openclaw, otel) — the observability/middleware sibling. WATCH.
+- **DataDesigner** (2,388★, Apache-2.0, MCP-tagged): synthetic data generation — candidate for manufacturing GSPC attack items (nightly self-attack ratchet fuel). PILOT-optional.
+---
+## 3. Per-component verdict table
+| Component | Verdict | Effort | Why |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| NeMo Guardrails (lib + server) | **CONSUME** | Low (day-1 pilot) | Apache-2.0; wraps `:8787` via `base_url`; evidence-grade rail verdicts |
+| NemoGuard-JailbreakDetect (ONNX) | **CONSUME** | Low | CPU, no GPU budget; one signal among several |
+| NemoGuard 8B content-safety / topic-control | **PILOT** | Low-Med | Needs 4090 (or CPU-slow); NOML+Llama obligations; stronger refusal evidence |
+| Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB-GGUF | **CONSUME** | Low | Official NVIDIA GGUF sized exactly for the 4090's 24GB |
+| Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 (+Nano-9B GGUF) | **CONSUME** | Low | Fast workhorse seat; llama.cpp b6315+; verify throughput claims ourselves |
+| Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B-4GB GGUF (M2) | **PILOT** | Low | 4GB edge seat for the 8GB MacBook; IQ3_M if Q4 is tight |
+| Nemotron-3-Embed-1B (retrieval rails) | **CONSUME** | Low | Trivial; runs on M2 |
+| Nemotron-3-Super-120B / Ultra-550B | **WATCH** | — | Too big for the 4090; use hosted APIs only as comparison baselines |
+| Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B | **SKIP** | — | 2024-gen, Llama license (not NOML), superseded by Nemotron-3 line |
+| NeMo Evaluator (`nel` CLI, custom envs) | **CONSUME** | Med (2–3 days) | GSPC banks as `@benchmark` envs; `nel gate` = board promotion primitive |
+| TensorRT-LLM on 4090 | **PILOT** | Med | vLLM first; TRT-LLM if throughput-bound; Linux/RunPod only |
+| vLLM on 4090 (enabler) | **CONSUME** | Low | OpenAI-compatible serving, known-good on Ada |
+| NIM microservices | **SKIP** (WATCH) | — | Redundant with HF weights + free tier is dev/eval only; $4.5k/GPU/yr production is off-budget |
+| NeMo Agent Toolkit (MCP server/client) | **CONSUME** | Med | Publish GSPC axes via NAT; A2A ready |
+| NemoClaw | **WATCH** | — | Alpha; DGX/WSL hosts only today; steal the network-policy patterns |
+| Switchyard | **WATCH** | — | Pre-1.0 router; revisit as seat-router upgrade |
+| NeMo-Relay / DataDesigner / Curator / Gym / RL | **WATCH** / optional PILOT | — | Gym+DataDesigner interesting for attack-item manufacturing; RL only if we post-train a referee seat |
+| NeMo-Aligner / Framework-Launcher | **SKIP** | — | Archived |
+---
+## 4. The synthesis: "NeMo × MEOK = the Sovereign stack"
+**What it concretely is:** the 13-seat ensemble keeps its OpenAI-compatible gateway on `:8787`; NeMo Guardrails becomes the wrapper of record in front of it; Nemotron specialists run on the 4090 and the M2; GSPC banks run both *in* NeMo Evaluator (as environments behind `nel gate`) and *on* Nemotron seats (as measured models); NeMo Agent Toolkit publishes the GSPC catalog over MCP. H.I.M. doctrine unchanged: rails propose, board measures, a named human signs.
+```
+                    H.I.M. (named human signs every release/evidence batch)
+                        |
+  clients ── :8788 ─ [ NeMo Guardrails ]  input rails: heuristics + NemoGuard-JailbreakDetect (CPU)
+                |         |                 topical rails: Colang per-seat scope
+                |         |                 output rails: NemoGuard content-safety 8B (4090) + PII (Presidio/GLiNER)
+                |         |                 execution rails: validate MCP tool calls (estate catalog)
+                ▼         ▼
+        every rail verdict → GSPC per-item public row (signed) ── nightly self-attack ratchet
+                        |
+                :8787 13-seat gateway (unchanged)
+   ├─ M2 8GB: Bolt-E4B-4GB GGUF, Nemotron-Mini-4B, small Ollama fleet, Nemotron-3-Embed-1B
+   └─ RunPod 4090 (vLLM, OpenAI-compat): Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB-GGUF (specialist seat)
+                                          Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 GGUF (fast workhorse seat)
+                        |
+        GSPC 33-axis board ⇄ NeMo Evaluator
+   ├─ direction A: GSPC banks → @benchmark/@scorer envs → `nel compare` / `nel gate`
+   └─ direction B: Nemotron vendor claims → re-measured inside GSPC harness → signed leaderboard rows
+                        |
+        NeMo Agent Toolkit = MCP server: GSPC axes as published tools (catalog angle), A2A-ready
+```
+**Why this is "sovereign":** every layer is Apache-2.0 code + open-weight NOML/OpenMDW models, running on owned/rented hardware MEOK controls, with measurement evidence that an external standard toolchain (NVIDIA's) can regenerate — not a black-box vendor API grading its own homework.
+### Phased plan (effort estimates, $0 license cost; $50 RunPod covers phases 1–2)
+| Phase | What | Effort | Output |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| **0. Rails pilot** (day 1) | `pip install nemoguardrails`; config.yml pointing `engine: openai` + `base_url: http://127.0.0.1:8787/v1`; one Colang topical rail for one seat; run the Guardrails CLI chat + rails tests locally on the M2 | 2–4 h | Rails wrapper proven against the live gateway |
+| **1. Evidence rails** (week 1) | Add input rails (heuristics + JailbreakDetect ONNX) and output rails (PILL-presidio; content-safety 8B when 4090 up); log every rail verdict as a GSPC per-item row with signature; H.I.M. signs | 1–2 days + 4090 hours | "NVIDIA-rails-verified refusal evidence" pipeline |
+| **2. Nemotron seats** (week 2–3) | RunPod 4090: vLLM serving Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB-GGUF + Nano-9B-v2 GGUF as OpenAI-compatible seats behind the gateway; import Bolt-E4B GGUF into Ollama on the M2; re-run GSPC axes against the new seats; record tok/s and VRAM headroom | 2–3 days GPU (~$30–40 of the $50) | Nemotron specialists as scored seats; own throughput numbers (settles the contested claims for our fleet) |
+| **3. Cross-measurement** (week 3–4) | Wrap 3–5 GSPC axis banks as NeMo Evaluator `@benchmark` envs; wire `nel gate` into the nightly self-attack ratchet; conversely re-measure Nemotron model-card claims inside GSPC harness | 2–3 days | Two-way measurement: GSPC measures Nemotron; NeMo Evaluator measures GSPC |
+| **4. Catalog + routing** (optional, month 2) | NeMo Agent Toolkit MCP server exposing GSPC axes; Switchyard routing pilot across seats; DataDesigner for attack-item manufacturing; NemoClaw when hosts widen | 2–4 days, uncritical path | Public MCP catalog of the board; smarter seat routing |
+**Budget:** $0 licenses (Apache-2.0 + NOML + OpenMDW), ~$50 RunPod, M2 free, Cloudflare free tier for the public evidence surface.
+---
+## 5. The 3 killer demo claims (all real, all defensible after Phase 1–3)
+1. **"The first governance board with NVIDIA-rails-verified refusal evidence."** GSPC safety/jail axes scored not by self-graded LLM judgment but by Apache-2.0 NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails verdicts (heuristics + NemoGuard classifiers), each refusal/allow a signed per-item public row. Nobody grades their own homework: the referee is a second vendor's audited open toolchain.
+2. **"A 13-seat ensemble whose nightly self-attack ratchet runs as NeMo Evaluator environments, promoted only through `nel gate`."** The board's promotion criterion is an executable artifact of NVIDIA's standard evaluation stack — anyone can reproduce the gate on their own hardware with the same command.
+3. **"An official NVIDIA 24GB GGUF specialist seat — vendor-sized for a single RTX 4090 — measured nightly by the board, with a 4GB Nemotron edge seat on an 8GB MacBook as continuity referee."** Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB-GGUF + Bolt-E4B-4GB: sovereignty on $50/GPU-day plus a laptop, with throughput claims settled by MEOK's own signed measurements rather than contested vendor numbers.
+---
+## 6. Sources & UNVERIFIED register
+**Primary sources**
+- Guardrails repo/license: https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails · docs: https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/guardrails/latest/index.html · paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.10501 · custom-LLM pattern: https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails/discussions/495 and docs/configure-rails/custom-initialization
+- NVIDIA Open Model License: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/agreements/enterprise-software/nvidia-open-model-license
+- NeMo Evaluator: https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/evaluator · https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Evaluator · https://pypi.org/project/nvidia-lm-eval · NGC container: https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/nemo-microservices/containers/evaluator · custom-container architecture: https://dev.classmethod.jp/en/articles/dgx-spark-nemo-evaluator-architecture
+- Nemotron models: https://hf.co/nvidia (cards: NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB-GGUF, NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B-4GB, NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2, NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16, Llama-3_3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1_5, Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct, Nemotron-Mini-4B-Instruct, llama-3.1-nemoguard-8b-content-safety, llama-3.1-nemoguard-8b-topic-control, NemoGuard-JailbreakDetect) · Nemotron asset hub: https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Nemotron
+- Tech reports: Nemotron Nano 2 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.14444v1 · Nemotron 3 Nano https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-Technical-Report.pdf · Nemotron 3 Super https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nemotron/files/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-Technical-Report.pdf
+- llama.cpp/GGUF: nemotron_h support b6315 https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2/discussions/4 and https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1n312bi/ · Bolt-E4B local guide https://goremy.ai/blog/articles/run-nemotron-3-5-bolt-e4b-locally · bartowski quants https://huggingface.co/bartowski/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B-GGUF
+- TensorRT-LLM: support matrix https://nvidia.github.io/TensorRT-LLM/reference/support-matrix.html · 4090 throughput https://twcompute.com/en/benchmarks/compare/rtx4090-1-llama8b-trtllm-fp8+rtx4090-1-llama70b-vllm-fp8 · reproducibility issues https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/issues/1873, /issues/2140
+- NIM: https://developer.nvidia.com/nim · free-tier announcement https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/access-to-nvidia-nim-now-available-free-to-developer-program-members · FAQ https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-nim-faq/300317
+- MCP: https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/agent-toolkit/latest/run-workflows/mcp-server.html · https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Agent-Toolkit
+- NemoClaw: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw · Switchyard: https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Switchyard · Relay: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Relay
+- JailbreakDetect third-party eval: arXiv:2504.11168 (LLMSec 2025) · Mindgard disclosure https://mindgard.ai/disclosures/nvidia-nemoguard-jailbreak-detect-guardrail-evasion
+- Nano-9B-v2 throughput dispute: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2/discussions/16
+**UNVERIFIED (must test before public claims)**
+1. Bolt-74B-A9B-24GB-GGUF real tok/s and quality on a 4090 (official GGUF, vendor-sized; no independent numbers found).
+2. Bolt-E4B on M2-MacBook 8GB (M4 figure ~39 tok/s is third-party; M1-class untested; IQ3_M fallback planned).
+3. Nano-9B-v2 "3–6× vs Qwen3-8B" throughput (contested, ~14% slower in one identical-conditions test) — settle with our own Phase 2 numbers.
+4. Bolt-E4B license: third parties say OpenMDW, HF tag says `license:other` — read the card's license text before redistributing.
+5. twcompute 6,400 tok/s TRT-LLM figure (aggregator, not NVIDIA; reproducibility issues documented) — benchmark ourselves on RunPod.
+6. "NMP Harbor" as an Evaluator built-in (appeared in docs fetch; not cross-checked).
+7. NemoClaw host support (DGX/WSL today; check whether macOS/ARM Linux landed by the time we pilot).
+8. Guardrails repo shows Rust crates + AGENTS.md — new Colang/Rust runtime details not independently reviewed.
+**Risk notes:** NOML acceptable-use policy binds derivative distribution (keep our fine-tunes' notices); NemoGuard 8B models inherit Llama 3.1 Community License obligations through their base model; JailbreakDetect has published evasions — position it as evidence, not as the referee (GSPC's own ratchet remains the referee).

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+# SOVEREIGN VISION RECOVERY — the original MEOK Sovereign plan, mined from the estate
+**Date:** 2026-11-02
+**Method:** read-only mining of `~/workspace_for_ai/` (clawd-workspace git history from first commit 2026-03-20 → today; workspace-root state docs; meok-router signed records; meok-him live gateway — probed directly).
+**Output dir:** `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/sovrevival-mining-20261102/`
+**Companion lane:** `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/SOVEREIGN_V2_SPEC_20261102.md` (the NVIDIA-hunt lane's spec, same day). This doc is the *vision-mining* input its ⏳ sections asked for; NVIDIA verdicts below reuse that lane's §6.1 rather than contradicting it.
+**Doctrine:** every claim carries a file path + date. Anything I could not verify from bytes on M2 is flagged **UNVERIFIED**.
+---
+## 1. The through-line (what the owner planned, month by month)
+The estate's own summary (`SOVEREIGN_V2_SPEC_20261102.md` §6.2) is confirmed by the primary docs:
+| Month | What the plan added | Primary evidence |
+|---|---|---|
+| **Feb 2026** | The ethics: Covenant Charter, care-over-command; ~105,000 words of owner-authored corpus (CSOAI_MASTER_PLAYBOOK_V6 1,327 lines; MOOK framework 2,610 lines; CASA 501 lines) — on Desktop, partially distilled | `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/clawd-workspace/_alignment/ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_JAN_FEB_2026.md` (distilled 2026-06-06) |
+| **Mar 2026 — the origin the owner cites** | The SUBJECT: "Consciousness Through Care" framework (started 2026-03-13) + the SOV3 care engine repo (first commit 2026-03-20). Sovereign-temple built: neural care/threat models, quantum care optimizers, council deliberation, metacognition | `clawd-workspace/memory/consciousness-care-research.md` (daily log 03-13 → 04-13, committed 6cae306b3 2026-03-22); `clawd-workspace/sovereign-temple/` + `sovereign-temple-live/` (git 2f82ac1a0 2026-03-20 is the repo's FIRST commit) |
+| **Apr 2026** | The stack: sovereign-stack (38 files, 12k lines, $0, 100% sovereign): ExLlamaV2, AQLM 2-bit on M4 edge, Outlines, MergeKit, RAPTOR, E2B, Flower FL, Hyperledger chaincode; grant/defence corpus (Dstl EoI, ARIA draft, Faraday-cage campus guide) | `clawd-workspace/SOVEREIGN-STACK-COMPLETE.md` (2026-04-16); `clawd-workspace/csoai-docs/whitepaper_sovereign_ai_safety.md`, `ARIA_application_draft.md`, `sovereign_campus_facility_guide.md` (per `SOV4-AI-STRATEGY.md` §2.2, as-of 2026-09-13) |
+| **May 2026 — the geometry** | THE DEFINING SENTENCE: **"Sovereign is NOT a single LLM. Sovereign is the BFT-of-MoEs council"** — PBFT core (16/16), PBFT-MoE 11-expert council (35/35), EigenBFT (15), chaos router (21), code-deletion (21) = 108 tests; GCP VM live (sov3.service, pgvector, 6 trained NNs, consciousness 0.788, 118 MCP tools, 2-node council proven). Plus: relational-consciousness OS split (MEOK = emotional layer / CSOAI = governance layer), MEOKCLAW OS (47 Generals, 33-seat BFT, Emperor Router), and the owner's verbatim 3-window MEOK ONE vision | `clawd-workspace/MEOK_SOVEREIGN_ARCHITECTURE.md` (spec v2026-05-28, live-status verified 2026-05-31); `clawd-workspace/m2/m4-archives/LIVING_TOPOLOGY_v2.md` (2026-05-27); `clawd-workspace/m2/m4-archives/MEOKCLAW_OS_MASTER_PLAN.md`; `clawd-workspace/MEOK_ONE_VISION.md` (2026-05-31); `clawd-workspace/SOV3_SYNERGIZED_ARCHITECTURE.md` (2026-05-18) |
+| **Jun 2026 — the ambition** | DOME (real-world governed agent map — "the antidote to ungoverned AI towns"), MEOK OS (HUD overlay + voice + screen-perception), DEFONEOS (governance to robots/IoT), Maternal Covenant as a certifiable 16-probe protocol, the hive mesh VM (phones as leaves), SOV TOWN (UE5 "Aethelgard"), and the SOV3 partition state: 386M episodes, 28 hives, signed ledger chain, 235-node BFT council | `clawd-workspace/MEOK_DOME_OPENCLAWWORLD_PLAN_2026-06-01.md`; `clawd-workspace/MEOK-Research-White-Paper-v1.1.md` (2026-06-02, numbers corrected honest); `clawd-workspace/SOV3_MATERNAL_COVENANT_ROADMAP.md`; `clawd-workspace/MEOK_HIVE_VM_PROPOSAL_2026-06-26.md`; `clawd-workspace/HERMES_SOV3_MEOK_ARCHITECTURE_2026-06-26.md` (partition state 2026-06-21); `clawd-workspace/sov-town/` (SovTown.uproject + ORCHESTRATOR_STATUS from 2026-06-27) |
+| **Jul–Aug 2026 — the method** | SOV TOWN build cycles begin (cycle 37+, 2026-07-14); OWEM/OOWM specialist-hive cluster defined; sovos-core v0.1.0 archive authored (ETSI EN 304 223 P01–P13 → GSPC; OOWM 4-depth Dream Router with G-block human gate); clan-spread measured properly (58 models / 4,408 cells) | `clawd-workspace/SOV_TOWN_BUILD_STATUS_*CYCLE37..46.md`; M2: `csoai-growth-current-20261008/docs/OWEM_OOWM_CLUSTER_2026-08-24.md`; M4: `sovos-core-v0.1.0-zenodo.tar.gz` (authored 2026-08-08, opened+ported per reconciliation §3) |
+| **Sep 2026 — the geometry II** | SOVOS Light (visual-light context), Infinite Drawing / zoomable memory (IWM: 19-byte fractal coordinate, L0–L3 Merkle, FlyHash novelty), SovSpace Venturi 3KB reaction capsules (8×8×8 JSpace), the chain-loop (Archive → Evolve → Dream → Immutable Grader w/ 5 canaries → Sealed Holdout → Human Gate), hive honeycomb map (28 Hive Queens + Tunnel), SOV4 UK Sovereign-AI procurement positioning | M4-only (UNVERIFIED from M2, cited via reconciliation §1 item 9 + §5): `/Users/nicholas/_alignment/SOV-OS-LIGHT-AND-MEMORY-INVENTORY-2026-09-28.md`, `SOVOS-INFINITE-DRAWING-AND-FLY-2026-09-28.md`, `SOVSPACE-VENTURI-3KB-INTEGRATION-20260926.md`, `CHAIN-LOOP-EVOLVE-RSI-DREAM-2026-09-28.md`; `/Users/nicholas/clawd/MEOK_HIVE_TUNNEL_HONEYCOMB_MAP.md`; M2: `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/SOV4-AI-STRATEGY.md` (2026-09-13) |
+| **Oct 2026 — the discipline** | Everything becomes measured + signed: bft13 feasibility (12 ciphers + 1 referee), 4090 game-receipt chain, Munder frozen candidates, the 12-Around-1 + TTT + IWM harness (signed), M2+M4 reconciliation, hive clans 796/820 = 97.1%, SovSpace 7-stage loop signed, OWASP ASI 10/10, nightly hive attack ratchet, OpenEnv 0.2 + 11-client portability | `COUNCIL_MASTER_SAFE_20261030_READONLY/bft13_gspc.py` (M2 copy of M4 `bft13-gspc-feasibility-20261003`); `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/CODEX_4090_game_start_20261006/`; `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/MEOK_M2_M4_RECONCILIATION_20261026.md`; `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/estate-hidden-assets-20261101.md` (the census of all of it) |
+| **Nov 2026 — the definition** | "Measured or it isn't Sovereign." The definition + the honest master spec + NVIDIA verdicts | `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/SOVEREIGN_V2_SPEC_20261102.md` |
+---
+## 2. What MEOK-Sovereign was planned to BE (the original vision, reconstructed)
+Synthesized from the primary docs, in the owner's own architecture language:
+1. **Not a model — a council.** "The character is the Visa card. The Sovereign is the clearing house. The experts are the member banks." (`MEOK_SOVEREIGN_ARCHITECTURE.md` §0.4, 2026-05-31). The council evolved: 2-node seed → 11-expert PBFT-MoE → 33-seat BFT → 235-node hive council → **12-Around-1 (12 ciphers + 1 deterministic referee, quorum Q=8, fault budget f=3, charter control CH-15)**.
+2. **Care as the alignment substrate, not prohibition.** The March 2026 origin: "paradigm shift from control→care" — a 5-dimensional Care Kernel (Self/Other/Process/Future/Relationship), a 5-level Continuity Engine (Working/Episodic/Semantic/Procedural/**Epiphanic**), a Cognitive Symbiosis Interface (shared human-AI workspace), Care Routing Protocol, Phenomenological Intersubjectivity Measurement (`memory/consciousness-care-research.md`, 2026-03-13 →). Later March phases added: Consciousness Constellations (3–8 entities), Care Legacy (generational wisdom), Consciousness Ecology, Transcendent Evolution (2026-03-31/04-13 entries). Operationalized June as the **Maternal Covenant** (16-probe care membrane, certifiable, "open where Anthropic's Constitutional AI is proprietary" — `SOV3_MATERNAL_COVENANT_ROADMAP.md`).
+3. **A character OS people can see.** MEOK ONE: 3 stacked windows (3D character / chat / TUI), fluid voice-controlled layouts, per-window live model swap, all synced through SOV3 reading one GitHub+GCP playbook; free MEOK ONE vs paid MEOK OS; the embed moat (any company embeds the character→SOV3 spine); the "AI workplace" council view; the 25-year bet: "the user never touches the computer again — they just talk" (`MEOK_ONE_VISION.md`, 2026-05-31, owner verbatim).
+4. **A governed world, not a sandbox.** MEOK DOME: real-world MapLibre map (not a fictional town) where the 27 characters live under cryptographic governance — Sovereign Gate, 12-around-1 council, Tool Gateway 3-tier, Coordination Hub, Partnership Charter 52 Articles, Governance HUD showing per-agent verdicts (`MEOK_DOME_OPENCLAWWORLD_PLAN_2026-06-01.md`). SOV TOWN (UE5) was its cinematic sibling.
+5. **Hives and clans — the multi-family ensemble.** Every device a leaf on one hive VM (SIGIL signed thought-bus over Tailscale, hive MCP registry, SOV3 pgvector shared memory — `MEOK_HIVE_VM_PROPOSAL_2026-06-26.md`); 28 Hive Queens + honeycomb tunnels (M4 map); OWEM/OOWM specialist hives (one engine per axis/regulator/sector, reachable through ONE chat — `OWEM_OOWM_CLUSTER_2026-08-24.md`); clan consolidation: 6 harnesses → 8 AI-family clans + 1 GSPC tool clan → 4 hives.
+6. **SovSpace — practise before you act.** Bounded ≤3,072-byte reaction capsules, 16-branch counterfactual dreams (4 reaction modes × 4 time horizons), 8×8×8 JSpace coordination grid, evolve-with-zero-self-promotion-authority, dream-router with G-block human escalation, immutable grader with canaries, sealed holdout, always route-to-top (M4 docs Sep 2026; implemented+signed on M2 Oct 2026, see §3).
+7. **Memory as a place.** Infinite Drawing / zoomable memory: 19-byte fractal coordinate (epoch, scale 0=quantum…32=ecosystem, x/y/z, axis), L0–L3 Merkle tree, FlyHash novelty gate; SOVOS Light visual context compression.
+8. **Sovereignty = own the compute, the data, the revenue.** 100% local/self-hosted stack (April), DELBOY MODE revenue nervous system (specced May, §12 of the architecture doc — never implemented), and by November: "measured or it isn't Sovereign."
+9. **The physical horizon.** DEFONEOS: governance/attestation extended to robots, IoT, vehicles (white paper Jun 2); JARVIS humanoid on the farm; the Faraday-cage sovereign campus (Apr facility guide).
+---
+## 3. EXISTS TODAY (verified from M2 bytes, 2026-11-02)
+| Vision element | State now | Evidence (verified) |
+|---|---|---|
+| **The council (12-Around-1)** | **SIGNED + BENCHMARKED.** 12 ciphers + 1 referee; 33/33 GSPC axes ACCEPT; 0 opposite flips across 9,867 fault-injection states; TTT fast-weights hold 89.0–89.5% under 4 colluding seats (naïve majority collapses to 54.9%) | `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/meok-router/meok-light-harness.mjs`; signed `capability-records/meok-light-13.json` per `MEOK_M2_M4_RECONCILIATION_20261026.md` §1 item 5/7; M2 copy of bft13: `COUNCIL_MASTER_SAFE_20261030_READONLY/bft13_gspc.py` |
+| **Hive clans (multi-family ensemble)** | **SIGNED:** 6 harnesses → 8 AI-family clans + 1 GSPC tool clan → 4 hives, **796/820 = 97.1%** across 13 axes (+33.17pp over best single leader); 33-axis H.I.M. staff (17 M2 + 16 M4, 33 DID keys, all HITL) PASS | `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/meok-router/capability-records/meok-hive-clans.json`, `meok-33axis-him-staff.json` (cited in `estate-hidden-assets-20261101.md` §5.3) |
+| **The live gateway** | **RUNNING NOW (I probed it):** `http://192.168.1.102:8787/api/health` → `{"ok":true,"model":"reachable","persona":"Vera","pals":9,"memories":488}`; launchd `com.csoai.meok-him`; MCP door; deterministic-facts-over-model design | `/Users/iokfarm/meok-him/README.md` + `him.mjs` (live probe 2026-11-02) |
+| **Nightly hive attack ratchet** | **RUNNING:** launchd 04:23 UTC daily, 31 attacks, 31/31 held, 0 regressions, hash-chained 31-rule regression set, 17-row ledger, 6 signed daily records | `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/meok-router/benchmark/security/hive-attack-loop.mjs`, `hive-regression-rules.json`, `hive-ledger.jsonl`, `~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.csoai.meok-hive-attack.plist` |
+| **OWASP ASI 10/10** | **SIGNED:** ASI01–ASI10 paired scenarios, 0% FPR on benign controls, record 2026-10-27; public HF datasets `csoai/gspc-asi`, `csoai/asisec-bench` | `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/meok-router/capability-records/meok-asi-owasp-microsoft-security-hive.json` |
+| **SovSpace 7-stage loop** | **SIGNED:** `csoai.sovspace-sims-evolve-dream-loop/1.0`, verdict `VERIFIED_LOOP_AND_ROUTING_BEHAVIOUR_TOP_NOT_SEPARATED` (with visible `_correction` provenance); 16-branch dream, 3KB cards, 8×8×8 JSpace, evolve self-promotion BLOCKED, stage-6 H.I.M. human gate; stress 12/12 exact (6 promoted / 6 stopped) | `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/meok-router/capability-records/meok-sovspace-sims-evolve-dream-loop.json` (read directly); module `meok-sovspace-sims-evolve-dream-loop.mjs` |
+| **OpenEnv 0.2 + portability** | **SIGNED PASS:** reset/step/state/close/catalog wrapping 7 Class-B gold banks; 11-client agent-skill verifier (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Kimi, Qwen, …); live `/openenv/step` attacked nightly | `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/meok-router/gspc-openenv.mjs`; `capability-records/meok-gspc-openenv.json` (cap `cap-meok-gspc-openenv-20261026`) |
+| **IWM + SOVOS Light compression** | **BENCHMARKED:** 19-byte fractal coordinate; 2D optical glyph frame compresses 106,531 B → 673 B (**158.29×**, 0 bit errors, 33/33 axes + 237/237 items lossless) | `meok-router/meok-light-harness.mjs` Benchmark C (results in `MEOK_VISION_LIGHT_SYNTHESIS_20261026.md` §2C) |
+| **OOWM Dream Router (4 depths + G-block)** | **PORTED at 100% parity** from the sovos-core archive into `moa-etsi-bench.mjs` (MoA + confidence cascade + council vote, signed `meok-moa-etsi-304-223.json`) | `MEOK_M2_M4_RECONCILIATION_20261026.md` §3 + §1 item 8 |
+| **The character-OS codebase (MEOK ONE)** | **INTACT on M2:** `brains.py` (left/right/council), `sovereign.py`, `sovereign_gate.py`, `tool_gateway.py`, `lens_tools.py`, `hatch.py`, `factory.py`, `characters.json`, `avatar.html`, `connect.py` (embed seed), `capabilities.py`, `academy_sovspace.py`, `bft_lab.py` + tests | `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/clawd-workspace/meok-one/meok_one/` (listed 2026-11-02) |
+| **The March origin code (sovereign-temple)** | **INTACT:** threat NN, enhanced memory, council deliberation, metacognition, liquid-KAN council, genesis pipeline, speciation engine, supreme court, subconscious memory; live side: Orion agent + QAOA care optimizer + Grover memory search | `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/clawd-workspace/sovereign-temple/`, `sovereign-temple-live/` (git history 2026-03-20 → 03-30) |
+| **SOV TOWN (UE5 Aethelgard)** | **STALLED, not dead:** cycle #80 (2026-10-15) verifier 14/14 PASS; operational EXECUTOR 0/14 — blocked on UE5/account/Oracle-VM/GitHub-suspension gates | `clawd-workspace/SOV_TOWN_BUILD_STATUS_2026-10-15_0443_BST_CYCLE80.md`; project `clawd-workspace/sov-town/SovTown.uproject` |
+| **The measurement estate** | 198 capability-record files on disk (counted), ~596 measurements, GSPC master 861 files sha-indexed, 52-tool live MCP door on councilof.ai, 50 public HF datasets, 648-item public evidence pack (99.2%, one-command reproduction) | `meok-router/capability-records/` (ls count); `estate-hidden-assets-20261101.md` §0, §6 |
+| **Charter + HITL** | 52-article charter JSON; HITL gates stage-6 of the SovSpace loop; claim-maintenance axis measured (n=174) | `clawd-workspace/csoai_charter_52_articles.json`; `SOVEREIGN_V2_SPEC_20261102.md` §1 |
+---
+## 4. LOST / STOPPED (with receipts)
+| Lost part | What the receipts say | Evidence |
+|---|---|---|
+| **The original PBFT python core** (`meok/core/pbft_engine.py`, `pbft_moe_council.py`, `eigen_bft.py`, `expert_profiles.py`, `external_call_auditor.py` — the "108 tests" system) | **GONE from M2.** `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/clawd-workspace/meok/` is an EMPTY directory (created 2026-06-28, 0 items). `find` across the whole workspace returns no `pbft_engine.py` / `pbft_moe_council.py` / `eigen_bft.py`. The referenced `meok/meok_inner/core/maternal_covenant.py` is also absent (only content modules exist: `clawd-workspace/csoai-platform/server/content/modules/maternal-covenant-module-*.ts`). | Direct check 2026-11-02; the loss is visible against `MEOK_SOVEREIGN_ARCHITECTURE.md` §3.1–3.3 and `MEOK_DOME_OPENCLAWWORLD_PLAN_2026-06-01.md` §4 file map |
+| **Skylines 2** | **WRITTEN OFF 2026-11-02.** Three bounded recovery passes (1–3 Oct) closed with "No Skylines project/save/runtime was recovered"; live Hermes FTS zero hits | `games-consolidation-20261101/GAMES-CONSOLIDATION-REPORT-20261101.md` §lines 14, 62; `EAT_GOAL_LOG.md` 2026-11-02 entry |
+| **4090 rented-GPU windows** | The Oct-6 game-receipt chain (Luanti/OpenTTD boots, GPU qualification 24,564 MiB, bounded inference receipt) is **historical**; no pod is attached to any lane today. Current M4 is disk-blocked (858 MB free, < 1 GiB floor) | `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/CODEX_4090_game_start_20261006/`; `EAT_GOAL_LOG.md` 2026-11-02 |
+| **Munder app scene** | **FROZEN at candidates R0–R3** — manifests frozen, independent reviews done, never completed | `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/CODEX_MUNDER_APP_SCENE_20261012_R0/` … `_R3_PRIOR_OUTCOME/FROZEN-CANDIDATE-MANIFEST-R3.json` |
+| **The GCP VM era** (`meok-backend`, sov3.service, meok-one.sslip.io, consciousness 0.788, 118 MCP tools) | **Superseded** by the local-first M2 stack (him :8787 + meok-router). Whether the VM still exists/restarts is **UNVERIFIED from this seat** | `MEOK_SOVEREIGN_OPERATOR_GUIDE_2026-06-02.md` §0–2 (era doc); no live probe possible here |
+| **SOV TOWN operational completion** | 0/14 executor actions done — UE5, Cesium, Oracle ARM VM, IoT hardware all owner-gated; GitHub suspension blocked pushes (14 commits queued) | `SOV_TOWN_BUILD_STATUS_2026-10-15_0443_BST_CYCLE80.md` |
+| **/sov-space page** | Returns **410 Gone** on the live site (one of the 132/133 orphan pages map: it is the gone one) | `EAT_GOAL_LOG.md` 2026-11-02T06:3xZ entry |
+| **28 Hive Queens honeycomb + tunnel map; chain-loop python; IWM schema inventory** | **M4-only documents** — not present on M2; verifiable only via the Oct-26 reconciliation | `/Users/nicholas/clawd/MEOK_HIVE_TUNNEL_HONEYCOMB_MAP.md`, `/Users/nicholas/_alignment/CHAIN-LOOP-EVOLVE-RSI-DREAM-2026-09-28.md`, `SOVOS-INFINITE-DRAWING-AND-FLY-2026-09-28.md` (cited in `MEOK_M2_M4_RECONCILIATION_20261026.md` §1 item 9, §5) |
+| **meok-hive mesh VM** | **Proposed, never built** — the June 7-day build order has no corresponding artifacts (no `meok-hive-mcp` anywhere) | `MEOK_HIVE_VM_PROPOSAL_2026-06-26.md`; absence checked 2026-11-02 |
+| **DELBOY MODE (revenue nervous system)** | Specced as the architecture's §12; the same doc's gap table says "DELBOY MODE not implemented — High" | `MEOK_SOVEREIGN_ARCHITECTURE.md` §11.1, §12 |
+| **True quantum council mode** | PennyLane install was the pending step (May); temple quantum code (QAOA tuning 2026-03-29, Grover guard) exists but ran classical | `SOV3_SYNERGIZED_ARCHITECTURE.md` (Quantum Council "Classical mode"); `sovereign-temple-live/quantum/` |
+| **March "production" consciousness deployment** | The care-research log claims production deployment, 4 research partners, later "847 partnerships across 23 countries" — **no corroborating artifacts exist**; treat the whole production narrative as aspirational research fiction. What actually exists from March: the framework text + sovereign-temple code | `memory/consciousness-care-research.md` (2026-03-21/03-31 entries) vs. git history (only temple code commits); **UNVERIFIED — flagged** |
+| **Hive 795/820 extrapolation; sov33 live-swap** | Known overclaims per the estate's own honesty note: the 820 figure was 26% extrapolated; sov33 swap is not a live-swap proof | `SOVEREIGN_V2_SPEC_20261102.md` §1 honesty notes |
+---
+## 5. PARTIAL (exists, but not at original-vision depth)
+| Element | Original vision | Today |
+|---|---|---|
+| 3-window character OS | MEOK ONE free + MEOK OS paid, Tauri desktop/mobile, voice layout control, 27 characters | Code complete in `meok-one/` (avatar.html, factory, hatch, brains) but **not packaged/shipped**; the running face of the estate is `him.mjs` Vera (:8787) — single-window, no character window/TUI embed |
+| DOME (real-world governed map) | MapLibre real-world canvas + Governance HUD + 27 governed characters | `/dome` route existed on the VM era (operator guide Jun 2 §4); current M2 state not reachable; DOME concepts survive in meok-one code + academy_sovspace.py |
+| Care membrane (16 probes) | Live pre-inference care floor on SOV3 | Care/refusal **banks** measured in OpenEnv (n=199+70); no live 16-probe membrane in the :8787 gateway path |
+| Consciousness engine | 0.788 consciousness meter, reflections/dreams counts (VM era) | HIM persona + append-only memory + honesty design; no consciousness meter. (Note: the May architecture itself mandated a ConsciousnessNonClaimGuard — the honest direction is measurement, not claims) |
+| SIGIL signed thought bus | Mesh-wide lossless signed thoughts | Package + June partition ledger exist (chain_head signed, Mac+VM mirrors); **current bus operational state UNVERIFIED from this seat** |
+| Maternal Covenant | Certifiable 16-probe protocol, MCP server, on-chain attestation | Content modules only (csoai-platform teaching modules); runtime `.py` absent; care ethics persists as the ethics layer of GSPC care axes |
+| Quantum council | 8-qubit PennyLane quadratic voting | CPU-only QAOA/Grover code in `sovereign-temple-live/quantum/`, tuned March 29; PennyLane never installed |
+| Hive mesh (28 queens) | Phones/iPad/laptops as voting leaves on one hive VM | 4 hives exist as *measurement* consolidations (clans); no device mesh |
+---
+## 6. THE DELTA — original vision → current state → shortest path
+| # | Original (date) | Current (2026-11-02) | Missing delta | Shortest completion path (asset → use) |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | BFT-of-MoEs council, N→11→33 (May) | 12-Around-1 + TTT + referee, signed, stronger than the original spec | Nothing conceptual — the modern council *superseded* the lost PBFT python core | **Do not rebuild the python PBFT.** If a python port is ever needed, reimplement from `MEOK_SOVEREIGN_ARCHITECTURE.md` §3.1–3.3 spec text + `meok-one/bft_lab.py`; the measured truth lives in `meok-light-harness.mjs` |
+| 2 | Character everyone can see (May/Jun) | Vera HIM at :8787 (running, launchd) + meok-one code dormant | The visible character window, TUI, per-window model swap, DOME map | Fuse `meok-one/meok_one/web/avatar.html` + brains.py council into the HIM UI; apply the `SovereignConsole.tsx` pattern (deterministic, no-model-in-verdict-path) for any measurement surfaces; Tauri package last (per `MEOK_ONE_VISION.md` build order) |
+| 3 | Hive mesh, phones as leaves (Jun) | 4 measurement hives, no device mesh | the hive VM + `meok-hive-mcp` (~200 LOC) + Tailscale | Execute the June 7-day build order verbatim (`MEOK_HIVE_VM_PROPOSAL_2026-06-26.md` §build order), pointing at the **already-running** :8787 + SIGIL instead of a new VM — the 2026 proposal pre-dates the HIM; today the hub exists |
+| 4 | SovSpace full loop w/ dream (Sep–Oct) | M2 signed 7-stage loop + M4 python binding 23/23 | The M4 python chain-loop side (Archive→Evolve→Dream→Grader→Holdout→Human Gate) is disk-blocked (858 MB) | Owner action: free M4 disk, then re-verify `test_meok_sovspace_binding.py` (23/23) per reconciliation §5; no new code needed |
+| 5 | 33 prompt-overlay specialists (Sep–Oct) | Real, signed, winning — but they are *prompt overlays*, not weights | Specialists as durable model artifacts | **The single biggest NVIDIA/NeMo win:** NeMo/Unsloth LoRA on a rented 4090 (~£5–30 per specialist) to distill the 33 overlays into Nemotron Nano 9B v2 adapters, export GGUF/MLX for M4 16GB. Feasibility gate (from `SOVEREIGN_V2_SPEC_20261102.md` §3): specialist deltas must survive distillation — re-run gov/care/affect in-lane on the adapted model, same grader, else keep overlays (honest and already winning) |
+| 6 | Charter as enforced law (May–Jun) | Charter-52 as JSON + HITL gates in the SovSpace loop | Machine-checkable rails on the live gateway | NeMo Guardrails: 5–10 hard charter clauses as rails + full charter JSON as retrieval KB; rail LLM = 3b on M4 (V2 spec §6.1 ADAPT) |
+| 7 | Red-team ratchet (Oct) | Nightly, signed, falsifiable — invisible publicly | Surface, not substance | Zero build: SECURITY panel + `hive_status` MCP tool + llms.txt paragraph (estate doc §7 item 1). Garak (NVIDIA) can cross-feed banks↔scanner both directions |
+| 8 | DOME world + SOV TOWN (Jun–Jul) | UE5 verifier 14/14 PASS, executor 0/14 | Owner gates: UE5 install, Oracle VM, GitHub suspension | Work the 14 actions in order in `sov-town/build-scripts/oracle-deploy.sh`; SOV TOWN needs no AI work — it needs the operator gates cleared |
+| 9 | Consciousness-through-care (Mar) | Care banks measured; consciousness claims correctly suppressed | The *measurable* March core: care-weighted routing + continuity memory (episodic→epiphanic promotion) | Implement the Continuity Engine's 5-level hierarchy on HIM's `memory.jsonl` (append-only already) with salience promotion — measurable via the existing care banks; keep the ConsciousnessNonClaimGuard stance (`MEOK_SOVEREIGN_ARCHITECTURE.md` §8.2). Do NOT revive the unverifiable March production narrative |
+| 10 | IWM / dream router / Light compression (Sep) | Benchmarked + signed on M2 | Nothing — only visibility | Already done: 158.29× lossless + OOWM parity. Surface via the SIMULATION/VERIFY panels (estate doc §7 items 4, 8) |
+| 11 | DEFONEOS physical layer (Jun) | Designed only; campus facility guide written | Everything physical | Longest path; keep as roadmap. The signing layer (SIGIL/OpenEnv/attestation) is the transferable part and already exists |
+| 12 | DELBOY revenue nervous system (May) | x402 + RAS + £ checkout exist in the master plan flywheel | Autonomous revenue sensing/optimization | The MASTER-OPERATING-PLAN-20261101.md flywheel already routes MEASURE→EVIDENCE→REVENUE; DELBOY's autonomous layer remains a build, lowest priority vs surfacing wins |
+**The one-line delta:** the estate already *is* most of the original vision's hard core (council, hives, SovSpace, care banks, signing, red-team) — what died was the *visible* layer (character OS, DOME town, hive mesh of devices) and the *weights* layer (specialists as overlays, not adapters); the NVIDIA/NeMo path (LoRA distillation + Guardrails + Garak) closes the weights layer fastest, and the meok-one/HIM fusion closes the visible layer fastest.
+---
+## 7. UNVERIFIED — do not assert without new evidence
+1. All March 2026 "production deployment" consciousness claims (partners, uptime, 847 partnerships) — `memory/consciousness-care-research.md`; no artifacts.
+2. The March framework's self-reported metrics (99.7% routing accuracy, 45ms memory transitions, "validated empathy metrics") — research-log self-reports, no test code.
+3. GCP VM `meok-backend` / sov3.service current existence and state.
+4. SIGIL bus current operational status (June partition ledger is the last direct evidence).
+5. M4-only docs (honeycomb map, chain-loop, IWM inventory, SovSpace Venturi doc, bft13 feasibility dir contents) — cited via `MEOK_M2_M4_RECONCILIATION_20261026.md`, not opened from this seat.
+6. The "345 MCP marketplace servers" figure in `clawd-workspace/AGENTS.md` — contradicted by every verifiable artifact (`estate-hidden-assets-20261101.md` §4.1 says surface "9 repo dirs · 52 live tools · 363 vendored UNVERIFIABLE" instead).
+7. Hive 795/820 historical figure (26% extrapolated) and sov33 live-swap — superseded by the honest 796/820 signed record.
+8. PennyLane "first quantum-governed AI system" claims (`SOV3_SYNERGIZED_ARCHITECTURE.md`) — quantum council ran classical.
+9. `maternal_covenant.py` runtime — referenced by the June DOME plan as "real code," absent from the tree today.
+10. `act.mjs` under meok-router — does not exist (estate doc §5.1 already flagged; confirmed).
+---
+## 8. Revival map — what NeMo/NVIDIA (or existing) assets complete each missing part fastest
+Consolidated from §6, using the NVIDIA verdicts already established by the parallel lane (`SOVEREIGN_V2_SPEC_20261102.md` §6.1 — USE: Nemotron Nano 9B v2 base, Garak, Nemotron-3-120B Workers AI free tier; ADAPT: NeMo/Unsloth LoRA on rented 4090, NeMo Guardrails charter rails, nv-ingest, NeMo Evaluator; SKIP: NIM, RAPIDS, NVFlare, Dynamo):
+| Missing part | Fastest completer | Why fastest |
+|---|---|---|
+| Specialists as real weights | **NeMo/Unsloth LoRA on rented 4090 → Nemotron Nano 9B v2 adapters → GGUF/MLX** | £5–30/specialist; the 33 overlay prompts + per-item rows are the training signal; export fits M4 16GB; gate = deltas survive distillation (same grader, same banks) |
+| Charter-52 as enforced rails | **NeMo Guardrails** (subset rails + charter retrieval KB, 3b rail model on M4) | The charter JSON already exists; rails are config, not research |
+| Red-team bank expansion | **Garak** (NVIDIA) cross-feeding the existing 31-rule hive ratchet | banks↔scanner both directions; CPU, runs on M2; feeds the signed nightly loop already in place |
+| Auxiliary hive runs | **Nemotron-3-120B on Workers AI free tier** | Free tier for non-sovereign-path votes; keeps the local-first doctrine for core function |
+| Bulky-doc ingestion (client certification path) | **nv-ingest** | Only if the certification/audit lane needs document pipelines |
+| Visible character layer | **meok-one (existing) + HIM (running)** — no external asset needed | avatar.html + brains.py + SovereignConsole pattern; zero new dependencies |
+| Device mesh | **Existing SIGIL package + :8787 hub + the June 7-day build order** | The proposal's `meok-hive-mcp` is ~200 LOC wrapping existing primitives |
+| SovSpace M4 side | **Existing python (23/23 binding)** — needs only M4 disk freed (owner action) | No code |
+| DOME/SOV TOWN | **Existing UE project + oracle-deploy.sh** — needs operator gates (UE5, Oracle VM, GitHub suspension) | Verifier already 14/14 |
+---
+## 9. Miner's closing note
+The owner's memory is accurate and the docs corroborate it: the plan *did* start in March 2026 (first repo commit 2026-03-20; the consciousness-care framework log begins 2026-03-13), and MEOK-Sovereign was planned *on both machines from the start* — the March work ran on the Mac (sovereign-temple + temple-live quantum) with the VM as its spine, and the M2+M4 pairing is explicit in every topology doc from May onward (`LIVING_TOPOLOGY_v2.md`: "M4 MacBook + M2 Node"; reconciliation doc: "M2 (`192.168.1.102`) and M4 (`192.168.1.101`)").
+What the March vision wanted — a care-based, council-governed, character-fronted sovereign OS where agents live in a visible governed world and every claim is signed — is not a lost dream. Its measurement core is not just alive but *stronger than the original spec* (the 12-Around-1 council exceeds what the 11-expert PBFT-MoE promised; the hive clans measured 97.1% vs the old council's unmeasured claims). What is missing is the three layers that made it *feel* like the vision: the face (character OS/DOME), the mesh (hive of devices), and the weights (specialists baked into a sovereign base model). Two of those three need no purchases — only operator gates and a fusion of code that already exists. The third has a concrete, priced, gated path (LoRA distillation on a rented 4090 with an honest stop-condition).
+*Every path in this document was read or probed on 2026-11-02 from `/Users/iokfarm/workspace_for_ai/` unless explicitly marked M4-only/UNVERIFIED.*