Open Source · Apache 2.0

The Open Enforcement Engine

Cognigate is the stateless runtime that executes the BASIS governance pipeline. Every agent action passes through INTENT, ENFORCE, and PROOF before it touches the world. Open source. Embeddable. No opinions — just enforcement.

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The Stack

Five stages. One pipeline. Every action governed.

Standard
BASIS
The governance rules. What agents can and cannot do, before reasoning begins.
Identity
CAR
Categorical Agentic Registry. Resolves the agent's identity, trust score, and capability credentials before the pipeline runs.
Reasoning
INTENT
Parses agent goals into structured plans. Surfaces risk and constraint pressure without executing actions.
Enforcement
ENFORCE
Validates plans against BASIS policies using the agent's CAR-bound trust score. Gates execution. Escalates when boundaries are tested.
Audit
PROOF
Cryptographic record of every decision. Immutable. Verifiable. The receipts. Optional: CHAIN extension anchors proofs to blockchain for independent verification.

What Cognigate Does

Policy Enforcement

Every agent action passes through ENFORCE before execution. Risk-based routing sends low-risk actions to the express path, high-risk to escalation or council review.

Trust-Gated Execution

Cognigate reads the agent's CAR-bound trust score and enforces tier-appropriate execution paths. Agents at T0 Sandbox get sandboxed execution. Agents at T7 Autonomous get express routing. Cognigate doesn't issue scores — it enforces the boundaries they define.

Capability Gate Enforcement

Each agent action requires specific capability credentials. Cognigate checks the agent's CAR-bound capability set against the action's requirements at runtime. If the credential is missing or the trust tier is insufficient, the action is denied or escalated.

Cryptographic Audit Trail

The PROOF layer logs every intent, enforcement decision, and outcome with cryptographic signatures. Tamper-evident and compliance-ready. Optionally anchored to blockchain via the CHAIN extension for independent verification.

Gateway to Vorion

Single API surface that proxies to the full Vorion platform — compliance, council, observer, truth-chain, academy, and more.

Developer Tools

Interactive tools powered by live reference data. No login required.

Trust Calculator

Explore the T0–T7 model

Error Codes

Search 38+ enforcement error codes

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SDK Quickstart

TS, Python, Go, cURL

Playground

Full pipeline: BASIS → CAR → ENFORCE → PROOF

Open Source. Apache 2.0.

Cognigate is the open-source enforcement engine for the BASIS standard. It executes the governance pipeline — nothing more, nothing less. Inspect it, fork it, build on it. The enforcement layer should be as transparent as the systems it governs.

git clone https://github.com/vorionsys/cognigate.git
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