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[Proposal] Integrating DIA & IAL for Proactive "Cognitive Circuit Breaker" Security #73
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Formal Proposal: DIA + IAL as a Constraint-Based Execution Environment Summary This proposal presents the Deterministic Isomorphism Architecture (DIA) together with the Intent Accountability Layer (IAL) as a runtime governance architecture for agentic AI systems. Rather than relying primarily on reactive prompt filtering, the architecture constrains execution through deterministic policy evaluation and explicit authorization before privileged actions occur. The objective is to provide an architectural reference for discussion within the OWASP GenAI Security project. The proposal is intended as a design pattern rather than a normative standard.
Traditional guardrails frequently evaluate model inputs or outputs after generation. DIA instead treats the language model as an untrusted decision component operating inside a constrained execution environment. The model may request actions, but execution is permitted only if the requested operation corresponds to an authorized transition defined by governance policy. This shifts enforcement from reactive inspection toward deterministic authorization at execution boundaries.
Deterministic Policy Mapping Authorized actions are defined by a canonical governance artifact. Runtime requests are evaluated against this artifact before execution. Requests that cannot be mapped to an authorized transition are rejected. The security objective is deterministic authorization rather than semantic interpretation. Hardware-Backed Attestation Where supported by deployment infrastructure, hardware-backed attestation may be used to establish trust in execution endpoints before privileged state transitions occur. This component is deployment-dependent rather than universally required. State Integrity Execution state is represented by cryptographically protected integrity values. State transitions are validated before execution. If required integrity properties cannot be established, execution terminates according to fail-closed policy. Execution-by-Proof Privileged execution requires explicit authorization evidence generated by the Intent Accountability Layer. Without successful authorization, execution does not proceed. The intent is that authorization becomes an execution prerequisite rather than an advisory signal.
Policy quality becomes part of the trusted computing base. Accordingly, governance artifacts should be analyzed before deployment to detect:
Formal verification techniques may be applied where appropriate, although the specific verification method depends on implementation.
The architecture is intended to provide:
This proposal is offered as an architectural pattern for community discussion. Future work includes:
Feedback from maintainers and working group participants is welcome. |
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Formal Proposal: DIA + IAL as a Constraint-Based Execution Environment
Summary
This proposal presents the Deterministic Isomorphism Architecture (DIA) together with the Intent Accountability Layer (IAL) as a runtime governance architecture for agentic AI systems. Rather than relying primarily on reactive prompt filtering, the architecture constrains execution through deterministic policy evaluation and explicit authorization before privileged actions occur.
The objective is to provide an architectural reference for discussion within the OWASP GenAI Security project. The proposal is intended as a design pattern rather than a normative standard.
Traditional guardrails frequently evaluate model inputs or outputs after generation. DIA instead treats the language model as an untrusted decision component operating inside a constrained execution environment.
The model may request actions, but execution is permitted only if the requested operation corresponds to an authorized transition defined by governance policy.
This shifts enforcement from reactive inspection toward deterministic authorization at execution boundaries.
Deterministic Policy Mapping
Authorized actions are defined by a canonical governance artifact.
Runtime requests are evaluated against this artifact before execution. Requests that cannot be mapped to an authorized transition are rejected.
The security objective is deterministic authorization rather than semantic interpretation.
Hardware-Backed Attestation
Where supported by deployment infrastructure, hardware-backed attestation may be used to establish trust in execution endpoints before privileged state transitions occur.
This component is deployment-dependent rather than universally required.
State Integrity
Execution state is represented by cryptographically protected integrity values.
State transitions are validated before execution. If required integrity properties cannot be established, execution terminates according to fail-closed policy.
Execution-by-Proof
Privileged execution requires explicit authorization evidence generated by the Intent Accountability Layer.
Without successful authorization, execution does not proceed.
The intent is that authorization becomes an execution prerequisite rather than an advisory signal.
Policy quality becomes part of the trusted computing base.
Accordingly, governance artifacts should be analyzed before deployment to detect:
Formal verification techniques may be applied where appropriate, although the specific verification method depends on implementation.
The architecture is intended to provide:
This proposal is offered as an architectural pattern for community discussion.
Future work includes:
Feedback from maintainers and working group participants is welcome.
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