PHI-OS
Persistent History
Injection OS
The governance layer beneath sirius-lab. Not a product — a published architecture.
PHI-OS is the persistent history injection layer that powers MoCKA's governance loop. It defines how AI systems can be made structurally incapable of ignoring their history.
About This Research
A Formal Governance Architecture for AI Behavioral Accountability
This paper proposes PHI-OS — a system-level architecture that makes AI history injection a structural property of the operating environment, not an application-layer convention. The Silence Prohibition Protocol (SPP) ensures AI systems cannot produce outputs that lack a verifiable trace to prior context.
The PHI-OS Layer Model
PHI-OS sits between human input and AI response, enforcing governance invariants at the OS layer — where they cannot be bypassed by application code.
Injection
Verification
Detection
Recording
What PHI-OS Defines
A formal protocol that prevents AI outputs from existing without a verifiable trace to prior context. Silence — the absence of recorded reasoning — is treated as a governance violation.
Every AI session receives a structured injection of verified prior history before processing. This is enforced at the OS layer — below application code.
Before any AI operation executes, PHI-OS verifies that the injected context is authentic, complete, and unmodified — using cryptographic attestation.
PHI-OS implements a dual-path architecture. Under partial failure, the system degrades gracefully to a minimum operating capability (~75%) rather than stopping.
Theory → Practice
PHI-OS is the research foundation. The sirius-lab product series makes its primitives accessible at every scale of use.
The formal OS-layer architecture. Published, peer-reviewed, referenceable. The theoretical foundation for all sirius-lab products.
PHI-OS primitives for individuals
PHI-OS primitives at product scale