Agentic Collaboration Ecosystem (ACE)
The SyzygySys product: a sovereign autonomic operations layer where policy, telemetry, and execution stay entangled. ACE blends human approvals with agentic automation to enforce intent at run time.
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SyzygySys ACE
ACE::AGENTICS
The harmonized agent workforce that executes ACE missions. It pairs reasoning models, policy prompts, and toolchains with human escalation rules so every action is monitored, explainable, and reversible.
ACE::LEDGER
A cryptographically attested event store that co-signs every mission artifact—intent, reasoning, prompts, and shell commands. Ledger entries map to retention policy and power replay, audit, and legal defensibility.
Reasoning Audit Trail (RAT)
Couples ACE actions with the full chain-of-thought that justified them. RAT stitches prompts, tool outputs, and telemetry into a replayable storyline so teams can rewind, branch, or fast-forward any change window.
Epistemic Humility Index (EHI)
A 0–1 confidence scale emitted with every agent response. Low scores route for human review; high scores can auto-progress missions under policy thresholds.
StateGuard
Continuous compliance scanner that diff-checks desired ACE state against live systems. Violations trigger HITL holds, update Ledger, and can auto-generate remediation runbooks.
HITL (Human-in-the-Loop)
Policy gate that pauses automation when risk, confidence, or impact exceeds tolerance. HITL checkpoints route full RAT context to authorized reviewers before execution resumes.
SyzygySys LAP::CORE
LAP::CORE
The local agent proxy’s control plane. It orchestrates connectors, secrets, and routing logic so ACE components can talk to internal services and third-party APIs through one hardened layer.
LAP::AUTH
Authentication gateway for LAP::CORE endpoints. Supports token, OAuth2, mTLS, and delegated role assertions so agents assume least privilege at runtime.
LAP::SECRETS
Zero-trust secret broker that loads, rotates, and scopes credentials for each mission thread. Works with HSMs, cloud secret stores, or offline vaults.
LAP::TELEMETRY
Telemetry fan-out that emits structured events to ACE::LEDGER, observability stacks, and digital twin sandboxes. Ensures every connector shares a common schema.
SyzygySys LAPI
LAPI (Local Agentic Protocol Interface)
Pluggable integration contracts for LAP::CORE. Each LAPI module ships the auth schema, event formats, and tool definitions agents need to drive an external system safely.
LAPI::GIT
Version control connector that exposes diff, merge, and release automation through ACE. Supports policy checks before repositories accept changes.
LAPI::JIRA
Work-management module that syncs backlogs, incident tickets, and approval artifacts with ACE missions. Keeps human intent linked to automated outcomes.
LAPI::SHELL
Scoped command execution layer. Routes shell operations through policy guards, credential leases, and RAT logging so imperative changes remain auditable.
LAPI::OLLAMA
Local model bridge that exposes on-prem or edge LLMs through a consistent tool contract. Supports model selection, temperature control, and token budgeting.
LAPI::EMAIL (Planned)
Forthcoming messaging module that will manage secure outbound campaigns, intake approvals, and archive trails without leaving the ACE context.
Security, Access & Identity Terms
AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Audit)
Three-part control loop that proves identity, checks policy, and records the outcome. ACE applies AAA to every mission thread—including agents.
IAM
Identity and Access Management platform that governs accounts, roles, and entitlements. ACE integrates with IAM to inherit least-privilege boundaries.
PAM
Privileged Access Management for high-risk identities. HITL escalations run through PAM to ensure humans sign high-impact changes with strong factors.
RBAC
Role-Based Access Control—permissions map to roles. ACE roles cover architects, operators, auditors, and agent classes.
ABAC
Attribute-Based Access Control. Adds context (device, location, risk score) on top of RBAC to decide if an action should execute or queue for review.
OIDC
OpenID Connect SSO layer built on OAuth2 tokens. Used for human console access and secure agent-to-agent trust handshakes.
OAuth2
Delegated authorization standard. LAP::CORE issues scoped OAuth2 tokens to LAPI modules so automations inherit zero standing privilege.
MFA
Multi-Factor Authentication. Required for all admin, HITL, and ledger unlock operations.
Zero Trust
Security posture that treats every request as untrusted. ACE enforces zero trust by re-authenticating tool calls and verifying policy for each action.
FGA (Fine-Grained Authorization)
Per-resource permission checks. ACE uses FGA to constrain agent tool access (commands, repos, environments) within each mission.
AI / LLM Concepts
LLM (Large Language Model)
Foundation or fine-tuned model that powers ACE agent reasoning. Models are sandboxed and wrapped with guardrail prompts plus RAT logging.
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
Workflow that feeds curated context into a model at inference time. ACE uses RAG to ground agents in live telemetry and policy documents.
Prompt Engineering
The craft of shaping model instructions, system prompts, and guardrails. Stored in ACE::LEDGER so changes to prompts are auditable.
Embeddings
Vector representations of text or signals. ACE indexes embeddings from incident reports and playbooks to assist retrieval and reasoning.
Fine-Tuning
Training a base LLM with domain-specific examples. Performed in isolated environments; resulting models are registered with Ledger metadata.
Guardrails
Deterministic constraints that intercept model outputs or inputs. ACE guardrails enforce compliance, redact secrets, and respect HITL decisions.
Temperature
Sampling parameter that controls randomness. Mission profiles define acceptable ranges to balance creativity with predictability.
System Prompt
Persistent instruction block that sets an agent’s persona, goals, and constraints. Versioned in Ledger to ensure reproducible behavior.
Model Card
Documentation describing capabilities, risks, and evaluation data for a model release. Required before ACE promotes a model to production.
Safety Specification
Policy bundle that dictates disallowed behaviors, escalation triggers, and logging requirements for a mission. Enforced by guardrails and RAT.
Platform / DevOps Terms
SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)
Discipline that balances reliability and velocity. ACE codifies SRE standards as guardrails and automates toil with validated runbooks.
GitOps
Operational model where Git is the source of truth. Ledger links every change approval back to the Git commit that authorized it.
CI/CD
Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipelines. ACE observes CI/CD runs and can gate deployment stages on EHI thresholds.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Managing infrastructure declaratively. StateGuard tracks drift between IaC specs and runtime results, generating remediation RAT threads.
Observability
Unified logging, metrics, and traces. LAP::TELEMETRY feeds observability stacks so agents operate with live situational awareness.
Runbook Automation
Codifying operational playbooks. RAT converts human runbooks into agent-executable sequences with approval gates anchored in Ledger.
Blue-Green Deployment
Technique that swaps traffic between two environments. ACE agents can stage blue/green flips, validate telemetry, then ratify the cutover.
Chaos Engineering
Intentional fault injection to test resilience. RAT logs chaos experiments end-to-end so mitigations are traceable and reproducible.
Telemetry Mesh
Distributed fabric that consolidates signals across infrastructure, applications, and agents. Powers ACE situational awareness and anomaly detection.
Postmortem (Blameless)
Structured incident review focused on learning. Ledger and RAT supply canonical facts, while LAPI connectors attach fixes and follow-up tasks.