Research

Most AI evaluations stop at models, agents, or local controls. This benchmark asks whether purpose, Evidence, authority, open burdens, effects, and terminal truth survive the whole act.

The hardest part of governing AI is often not what a model thinks, but the moment a thought is allowed to change institutional state. Cognitive Governors exist at that boundary.

A model can reason under principles without owning the law that gives those principles force. Cognitive Constitution and Cognitive Contracts keep institutional authority outside the faculty.

AI governance now reaches models, agents, tools, identity, policy, and workflow. The unresolved question is whether those controls preserve custody of the complete cognitive act.