# Aegis Latent Core — advisory LLM context

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Release boundary:
- Checked-out source baseline/release target: **5.0.3**; all fourteen source anchors are synchronized, and it is **published** under the Aegis Commercial License 1.0 (see `docs/legal/LICENSE_TRANSITION_5.0.3.md`). Readback on 2026-10-30 found the annotated tag, GitHub Release with 31 assets, PyPI `aegis-latent-core` 5.0.3 (wheel `9d4508c9…`, sdist `00182ec1…`, uploaded 07:13:42Z), PyPI `aegis-latent-sdk` 5.0.3, npm `aegis-latent-sdk` 5.0.3, and both GHCR images with cosign verification. The gateway reached PyPI at 5.0.3 on 2026-10-30. Source metadata never establishes external lifecycle state; the per-surface record is `docs/RELEASE_STATUS.md` §1.0e.
- Most recent published release on every surface: **v5.0.3** (2026-10-30), read back on GitHub Release, both PyPI distributions, npm and GHCR. The previous release, v5.0.2, was published 2026-10-01; v5.0.1 followed on PyPI `aegis-latent-core` on 2026-09-26. The signed annotated tag for v5.0.3 is `eeafb814…` at commit `71a756b`; the gateway-publish run `41018668975` verified the tag, built the package and published it with OIDC trusted publishing. `gh attestation verify` was not run from this host.
- Do not claim production readiness, certification, legal compliance, accepted capacity, or court admissibility without direct authoritative evidence.

Read first:
- AGENTS.md — canonical shared project rules
- .aegis_ai_context/README.md — deep-context index when present in the working tree
- docs/CLAIMS_MATRIX.md — controlled claims, evidence, falsifiers
- SECURITY.md and docs/security/THREAT_MODEL.md — security boundary and non-defenses
- docs/architecture/ARCHITECTURE.md — architecture
- docs/REPOSITORY_MAP.md — maintained source map
- docs/MODULE_INVENTORY.md — generated per-file inventory: purpose, reachability status, tests, owner
- CHANGELOG.md — published and unreleased history
- .aegis_ai_context/07_SYSTEM_COMPACT_KERNEL.xml — compact advisory kernel

Critical implementation:
- aegis/proxy/app.py — request routes and evidence ordering
- aegis/proxy/streaming.py — bounded streaming and terminal summary
- aegis/core/crypto_audit.py — ledger and WAL
- aegis/core/mmr.py — portable non-ZK O(log n) MMR inclusion proofs
- aegis/core/forensic_bundle.py — bounded deterministic evidence bundles
- aegis_server/crypto/keyring.py — rotating HMAC keyring
- specs/ and scripts/verify_formal_artifacts.sh — bounded formal abstractions

Verification entry points:
- pytest -q tests/test_ai_context.py
- pytest -q tests/test_mmr_portable.py
- python scripts/verify_github_action_pins.py
- python scripts/verify_release_contract.py --root .
- scripts/verify_formal_artifacts.sh

Portable MMR boundary: verification binds a disclosed leaf and proof to a separately trusted root. Proof growth is O(log n), and the scheme is non-zero-knowledge. It does not provide confidentiality, identity, timestamping, custody, consensus, non-membership, or external anchoring.

External acceptance is required for target TLS/ingress, identity and authorization, providers, Redis, clocks, filesystem/archive/backup, signer and key custody, secret-manager rotation, kernel controls, orchestration, capacity, monitoring, recovery, rollback, retention, and operational ownership. Static manifests and local tests do not prove those properties.