Concepts#
Start with the functional-safety framing — it explains the body of standards (ISO 13849-1, IEC 61508, ISO 26262) that ANNIE’s architecture is designed against, and what the alignment with those standards does and does not claim.
Then read the four architectural pillars in order. Each page focuses on a single idea: what it does, why it matters, how you observe it, and what it does not do.
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Functional-Safety Framing | Why ANNIE is built on industrial functional-safety topology, and the alignment-vs-certification distinction. |
| The Ledger of Reality | Records every meaningful event in a hash-chained, branching memory. Tampering is detectable; rollback is a pointer move. The safe-state recovery surface. |
| Holographic Tombstones | Lets the working memory exceed VRAM without breaking determinism or the ledger. |
| The Guillotine | Halts the agent in microseconds when the hardware itself reports a fault. The safe-state-on-fault response. |
| The Iron Lung | Bounds the entire control loop to a predictable cadence. The continuous diagnostic that makes the Category 4 pattern actually hold. |