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The Lattice introduces AI governance with a cognitive constitution

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The Lattice is a new AI governance architecture that prioritizes "should" over "can" by implementing a cognitive constitution. This system uses a gate procedure to evaluate proposed actions based on coherence with the constitution, attention budget, and reversibility. Two MCP servers, Vara MCP Server and Canonical Vault MCP Server, are available to expose this architecture to AI models, with code available on GitHub and a live demo on Hugging Face. The full specification is detailed in a paper titled "The Lattice: Substrate-Independent Cognitive Governance and the Architecture of Algorithmic Constitutionalism." AI

IMPACT Introduces a novel governance framework for AI agents, potentially shifting focus from capability to ethical and controlled execution.

RANK_REASON The item describes a new architecture and specification for AI governance, including associated code and a paper, which falls under research. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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The Lattice introduces AI governance with a cognitive constitution

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Jeremy Sebastian ·

    Capability Is Not Authority: Shipping a Cognitive Constitution as MCP Servers

    <p>Most agent stacks answer one question well: can the model do the thing? Almost none of them answer the prior question: should this transition be allowed to happen at all?</p> <p>The Lattice is a governance-first cognitive architecture for AI — a cognitive constitution. Its pre…

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