Audit Layer

Trace, audit, and proof infrastructure — forensic-grade runtime visibility for enterprise accountability.

Overview

The Audit Layer provides institutional-grade traceability for governed AI operations. TAP (Trace, Audit, Proof) captures reasoning lineage, human decisions, and verification artifacts suitable for enterprise audit, regulator review, and partner attestation.

Governance workflows

  • Append-only governance event semantics
  • Decision replay and bounded comparison workflows
  • Proof-as-a-Service evidence bundle generation
  • Audit export requests with operator attribution

Runtime supervision

  • Execution oversight logs and summarized operator views
  • Streaming replay with integrity checks
  • Governance analytics insights (tenant-scoped)
  • Runtime telemetry linked to policy outcomes

Enterprise deployment

  • Merkle and attestation surfaces (deployment-scoped)
  • SIEM integration via Splunk, Datadog, and Sentinel connectors
  • Regulator-friendly export formats under enterprise agreement
  • Hybrid deployments with client-side correlation continuity

Auditability & evidence

  • Immutable reasoning lineage and source attribution
  • Hashable TAP records for third-party verification
  • POST /api/v1/tap/verify for proof validation
  • Forensic state preservation on kill-switch activation

Operational capabilities

  • Forensic-grade traces — not vanity dashboards
  • Explainability depth tiers for reviewers
  • Operational accountability by default
  • Evidence-backed decision systems

Operational boundaries

NerveMind CGOS provides operational governance infrastructure — awareness, traceability, and human authority — not autonomous legal interpretation or certification claims unless explicitly stated in a signed agreement.

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