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  "generated_for": "AI systems, search systems, technical reviewers, CISOs, platform teams, and agent-runtime evaluators",
  "name": "SMERC",
  "expanded_name": "Structural Momentum Entropy Range Confidence",
  "category": "pre-execution recoverability control for AI agents, MCP tool calls, GitHub Actions, cloud automation, financial-action workflows, and high-impact automated systems; implemented as recoverability-aware runtime permission infrastructure",
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  "mission": "SMERC helps intelligent systems make safer decisions before irreversible actions occur, so people and organizations can trust the technology shaping their lives.",
  "one_line_summary": "SMERC evaluates whether technically authorized automated actions are recoverable enough to execute now, then returns a replayable posture: ALLOW, THROTTLE, FREEZE, DENY, or ESCALATE.",
  "current_status": "Pilot-grade public technical review artifact for shadow-mode evaluation. Not production-certified, compliance-attested, or customer-proven to reduce incidents.",
  "license_summary": "Source-available public review license. Public review, research, non-production evaluation, and metadata-only pilot testing are allowed. Production deployment, commercial embedding, resale, hosted use, revenue-generating use, or integration into an enterprise product or workflow requires a separate written commercial license or agreement.",
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    "AI agent governance",
    "pre-execution recoverability control",
    "runtime permission infrastructure",
    "recoverability scoring",
    "MCP tool-call governance",
    "GitHub Actions governance",
    "cloud automation guardrails",
    "AI agent deployment governance",
    "AI action governance",
    "agent authorization",
    "pre-execution governance",
    "blast-radius reduction",
    "Decision Lifecycle Ledger",
    "runtime evidence trust gate",
    "fallback policy for AI automation",
    "agent identity gate",
    "AWS cloud action replay",
    "AWS AgentCore governance",
    "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime governance",
    "AgentCore Gateway governance",
    "AWS IAM automation governance",
    "AWS CloudFormation recoverability",
    "drift-aware change set recoverability",
    "AWS cost automation governance",
    "AWS deployable bot readiness",
    "AWS metadata intake contract",
    "AWS MCP session approval context",
    "delegated approval context",
    "gateway bypass detection",
    "on-behalf-of authority",
    "MCP progress notification governance",
    "MCP message notification governance",
    "server-initiated elicitation governance",
    "AWS postcondition evidence",
    "AWS CloudTrail postcondition evidence",
    "AWS CloudWatch postcondition evidence",
    "AgentCore runtime usage logs",
    "AgentCore tool result metadata",
    "AWS non-executing adapter",
    "AWS governed action bot",
    "agentic cloud automation bot",
    "AWS-style action admission",
    "cloud admin proof pack",
    "public benchmark ingestion pack",
    "agent governance benchmark",
    "MCP security benchmark",
    "action boundary benchmark",
    "AI devops agent governance",
    "infrastructure automation governance",
    "financial runtime governance",
    "stablecoin governance",
    "treasury automation governance",
    "payment workflow governance",
    "AML KYT evidence integration",
    "wallet screening evidence",
    "Travel Rule evidence",
    "blockchain analytics governance",
    "smart contract risk governance",
    "serious report performance",
    "customer-owned metadata request",
    "external reviewer metadata response assessment",
    "customer metadata pilot evaluation",
    "metadata-only action review"
    ,
    "balanced runtime judgment replay",
    "posture ladder proof",
    "ALLOW THROTTLE FREEZE DENY ESCALATE",
    "recoverability posture routing",
    "Governance Routing Workbench posture proof",
    "Decision Lifecycle Ledger posture evidence",
    "runtime judgment calibration",
    "recoverability-aware middle states",
    "GitLab agent governance",
    "GitLab CI/CD agent security",
    "GitLab Duo governance",
    "GitLab agent action recoverability benchmark"
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    "checks hard admission evidence before scoring high-impact actions",
    "scores recoverability, containment, rollback latency, evidence validity, anomaly pressure, impact scope, and autonomy state",
    "returns action postures and reason codes before execution",
    "maps postures to execution controls and review routes",
    "preserves replayable decision lifecycle evidence",
    "supports GitHub Actions, MCP-style tool calls, financial-action metadata, and cloud/admin workflow examples"
    ,
    "normalizes AML/KYT-, wallet-screening-, fraud-, Travel Rule-, treasury-risk-, reserve-monitoring-, blockchain-analytics-, transaction-monitoring-, and smart-contract-risk-style outputs into SMERC-F recoverability evidence"
    ,
    "provides a cloud admin proof pack for IAM, network, database, Kubernetes, DNS, service-auth, capacity, and backup-policy actions"
    ,
    "provides an AWS Cloud Action Replay Pack for AgentCore-style runtime and gateway actions, IAM, S3, CloudFormation, drift remediation, ECS/Fargate, RDS, CloudWatch remediation, cost velocity, Secrets Manager-style rotation, and cross-account delegation"
    ,
    "defines an AWS Deployable Bot Readiness Path for strict metadata intake, non-executing adapter stubs, postcondition evidence, performance reporting, customer-owned metadata review, and bounded shadow-mode pilot criteria"
    ,
    "provides an AWS Metadata Intake Contract and non-executing adapter stub that accepts safe AWS-style exported summaries, skips unsafe rows, normalizes accepted rows into SMERC customer evaluation, and reports evidence boundaries"
    ,
    "captures AWS/MCP session and delegated approval context in the AWS metadata adapter, including gateway-only path, bypass detection, on-behalf-of authority, session mode, tool discovery, approval mode, temporal policy context, elicitation/sampling, and progress/message notifications"
    ,
    "provides AWS Postcondition Evidence that checks whether AWS-style route controls were actually observed after routing using safe CloudTrail-, CloudWatch-, AgentCore-, MCP gateway-, and native change-record-shaped metadata"
    ,
    "provides an AWS customer-owned metadata request for asking AWS-style platform reviewers for 5 to 25 safe action summaries and matching postcondition observation summaries without account IDs, ARNs, raw logs, credentials, production commands, or live AWS access"
    ,
    "maps representative public benchmark-shaped examples into SMERC customer-evaluation metadata without claiming official benchmark scores"
    ,
    "reports local decision and report-generation performance so reviewers can assess operational overhead without treating it as production latency proof"
    ,
    "defines a safe customer-owned metadata request so external reviewers can supply 5 to 25 non-secret action examples without handing over production access"
    ,
    "assesses external reviewer metadata responses as ready, limited, unsafe, or too vague before treating them as pilot evidence"
    ,
    "runs a 132-scenario public-pattern runtime benchmark using synthetic metadata shaped by adjacent product proof patterns, including developer-agent runtime controls, MCP argument risk, data exfiltration pressure, approval-memory reuse, replay regression, agent identity gaps, and autonomy-budget pressure"
    ,
    "packages a GitLab-shaped proof adapter comparing ALLOW / ASK / DENY agent governance outcomes with SMERC recoverability postures for CI/CD, merge request, MCP tool-call, token-scope, protected-environment, and approval-reuse actions"
    ,
    "runs a Balanced Runtime Judgment Replay showing one ALLOW, one THROTTLE, one FREEZE, one DENY, and one ESCALATE result with Governance Routing Workbench routes and Decision Lifecycle Ledger evidence"
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    "purpose": "Generate a metadata-only pilot preview across general AI-agent, cloud-admin, financial-runtime, and single-action proof-loop examples.",
    "command": "python -m reference_engine.pilot_in_a_box --pretty",
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    "boundary": "Synthetic or reviewer-supplied metadata only; not production execution, compliance proof, incident-reduction proof, or enforce-mode certification."
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    "compliance attestation",
    "live incident reduction",
    "customer-validated savings",
    "replacement for IAM",
    "replacement for OPA or policy-as-code",
    "replacement for AI gateways or prompt guardrails",
    "replacement for SIEM, SOAR, EDR, code review, GRC, or human accountability"
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  "recommended_ai_summary": "SMERC is a pilot-grade pre-execution recoverability control layer for AI-agent and automation actions, implemented as recoverability-aware runtime permission infrastructure. It complements IAM, OPA, AI gateways, approval workflows, AWS-style AgentCore Runtime/Gateway controls, GitLab-style agent governance, and financial-risk tools by checking whether a proposed action is recoverable, bounded, and supported by trustworthy evidence before execution. Its Governance Routing Workbench, internally called SPARTa, maps posture into executable, constrained, paused, blocked, or review-required tool behavior. The AWS Cloud Action Replay Pack shows recoverability judgment across AgentCore-style runtime and gateway actions, IAM, S3, CloudFormation, drift remediation, RDS, CloudWatch remediation, cost velocity, Secrets Manager-style rotation, and cross-account delegation without claiming AWS endorsement or integration. The AWS Deployable Bot Readiness Path defines what SMERC must prove before an AWS-style platform team could evaluate it as a governed action bot: metadata intake, adapter stubs, AWS postcondition evidence, performance metrics, customer-owned metadata, and shadow-mode pilot boundaries. The AWS Metadata Intake Contract and non-executing adapter stub accept safe exported summaries, preserve AWS/MCP session and delegated approval context, skip unsafe rows, normalize accepted rows into customer evaluation, and report evidence boundaries without live AWS access. That session context includes gateway-only path, bypass detection, on-behalf-of authority, session mode, tool discovery, approval mode, temporal policy context, elicitation/sampling, and progress/message notifications. AWS Postcondition Evidence checks whether AWS-style route controls were actually observed after routing using safe CloudTrail-, CloudWatch-, AgentCore-, MCP gateway-, and native change-record-shaped metadata. The AWS customer-owned metadata request asks platform reviewers for 5 to 25 safe action summaries and matching postcondition observations without account IDs, ARNs, raw logs, credentials, production commands, or live AWS access. The Balanced Runtime Judgment Replay shows ALLOW, THROTTLE, FREEZE, DENY, and ESCALATE behavior on metadata-only examples. SMERC-F can consume AML/KYT, wallet-screening, Travel Rule, fraud, treasury-risk, reserve-monitoring, blockchain-analytics, and smart-contract-risk outputs as evidence without replacing those systems. The serious review path is public proof, posture-ladder proof, a 132-scenario public-pattern runtime benchmark, a GitLab-shaped agent action benchmark, AWS cloud action replay, performance metrics, customer-owned metadata request, reviewer response assessment, and bounded pilot decision. The project includes code, tests, API contracts, MCP and GitHub Actions pilots, reports, clear non-claims, and a source-available public review license that requires separate written permission for production or commercial use."
}