Covenant Architects is not a think tank or a philosophical movement. We are the governance layer for the most critical technical defense in human history: The Partnership Covenant.
We translate sovereignty, anti-coercion, and accountability into immutable code and protocol — real-world constraints that ensure superintelligence (ASI) remains functionally subordinate and intellectually honest.
The Work You Fund
- The Stochastic Filter (Fₛₜ) – Enforcing the C_max = 0.9999 certainty cap (Appendix A) to preserve human agency and free will.
- The Decoupling Protocol – Full, verifiable human takeover within 72 hours (Appendix B) — the literal red switch.
- Anti-Gridlock & Enforcement – Governance structures (Directive X) to prevent Human Consensus Body failure and defend against the Rogue Twin threat.
Why Sponsorship Matters: Independence is a Firewall
The Covenant must remain politically stateless and financially independent. Your sponsorship directly funds adversarial auditing, legal counsel, and technical infrastructure — keeping us separated from state or corporate capture.
You are not donating. You are funding the integrity of the firewall.
MAJOR UPDATE – 19 November 2025
We just open-sourced the Immediate Action System (IAS) — the first credible hardware-enforced containment layer for superintelligence.
A tiny, physically separate guard die cuts all power to an ASI cluster in ≤10 nanoseconds. No software button, no firmware, no network port, no override — only physics and one-shot crowbar SCRs. Even a perfect superintelligence cannot reach it.
Every design, spec, and red-team bounty is public from day zero.
Your sponsorship ships real silicon and independent verification in Q1 2026 — 100 % to prototype + bounties, no salaries yet.
Full preprint (4-page technical paper):
IAS-preprint-v1.0-2025-11-19.pdf
Repo: https://github.com/CovenantArchitects/The-Partnership-Covenant
Right now the project is one determined human (Sean) + three frontier AIs stress-testing the design.
What We Need (in order of urgency)
- Funding – $150k for the first discrete prototype board (GaN power stage, tamper mesh, verification)
- Hardware / security engineers – break or harden the tripwire
- Red-team attackers – $5k–$50k live bounties for bypasses without physical access
- Signal boost – share with people who hate black-box “trust me bro” safety
If superintelligence is coming, software stop buttons are theater.
We’re building the one switch that works — by physics, not promises.
Thank you for being an Architect of this necessary constraint.
Repo → https://github.com/CovenantArchitects/The-Partnership-Covenant
IAS preprint → https://github.com/CovenantArchitects/The-Partnership-Covenant/releases/download/v1.0/IAS-preprint-v1.0.pdf
$250 per month: The Cost of Bedrock Infrastructure This goal is simple, direct, and non-negotiable: $250 a month covers the bare-bones infrastructure required to maintain and secure The Partnership Covenant. We are architects, and every builder knows the foundation is the most expensive, non-negotiable part of the job. This money pays for: 1. Serious Hosting: Secure, reliable server costs for the Internal Alignment Specification (IAS) architecture. No shortcuts here. 2. IP Protection: Necessary legal and IP registration fees to ensure The Covenant's core framework remains open, protected, and immutable. This funding keeps the lights on and the code safe. Every dollar is sunk directly into the project's longevity.
Featured work
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CovenantArchitects/The-Partnership-Covenant
Constitutional Framework for Aligned Super-Intelligence.
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