docs/architecture/Technical-Overview.md

Technical overview

Aureon is a large research and prototyping repository containing exchange, strategy, orchestration, UI, deployment, HNC, and validation source. Source presence is not the same as an approved or protected production runtime.

Current runtime boundary

Supported launch and deployment surfaces are routed to the fixed isolated protected bootstrap. That boundary returns HOLD and does not import the target, start a child, write a file, invoke Git, or access the network. Legacy launchers that cannot safely enter that boundary have been replaced with non-mutating HOLD receipts.

Unresolved production requirements

• Complete source-boundary coverage with no unresolved census blockers.
• Native process containment outside the Python interpreter.
• Durable HNC evidence whose monotonic ledger head is externally attested.
• Credential custody and provider-specific authorization/read-back.
• Recovery, rollback, incident-response, and operational qualification evidence.

Until those requirements are satisfied and independently reviewed, no exchange, listener, autonomous worker, cloud deployment, or live execution path is production-ready. Configuration flags, simulations, and local tests cannot override this terminal release HOLD.