🔒 Neural Foundation — Root Declaration

Status: Active
Operational Cycle: C003
Custodian: José Augusto Mendes Correia

Declaration Date: 2026-01-18 (UTC)

Root of Trust — Public Hash Declaration

This page declares the public existence of an operational cognitive governance framework with explicit human custodianship.

The Neural Foundation is defined, versioned, and sealed through cryptographic hashing, ensuring precedence, integrity, and non-repudiation.
This declaration establishes a verifiable Root of Trust independent from any specific product, application, or deployment.

Root Hash (SHA-256)

85DB2629C555929C3F201C08F0872EF76B461FE56B12DE4F1F56F6665A137C12

Canonical Documents

Foundation Root v1.1 (Semantic DNA)
Source document defining identity, ethics, governance principles, evolution rules, and transparency constraints.

File: FoundationRoot_v1.1.json

Neural Foundation — Operational Cycle C003
Active constitutional cycle defining custodianship, hierarchy, memory handling, ethical brakes, audit mechanisms, and rollback authority.

File: neural-foundation.c003.json

Declaration

This declaration establishes the independent and verifiable existence of the Neural Foundation as a framework of cognitive and ethical governance, distinct from any specific application, project, organization, or technical implementation.

The published hash serves as the Root of Trust for all derivative references, documents, and operational roles anchored to this framework.

The Neural Foundation explicitly enables the existence of operational governance roles responsible for the continuous supervision, control, and intervention of AI systems in execution (runtime).

One such role is later defined as the Runtime AI Governance Operator (RAGO) — an operational function responsible for governing the behavior of live AI systems under human custodianship, ensuring continuous oversight, ethical enforcement, and auditability.

The definition of such roles does not assign authority automatically, nor does it imply exclusivity.
It establishes constitutional permission and semantic legitimacy for their existence, derivation, and verification under this Root of Trust.

End of declaration.