Intelligent Life Operator
ILO
The harness, not the agent. A small Rust kernel that sits between an AI agent and the real world.
How it worksThe agent does the thinking.
ILO decides what actually happens.
Vektra builds AI to keep people alive when the world breaks, and strong every other day. ILO is where that promise is enforced: between any agent and any action that touches the real world.
Every action takes the same path.
No exceptions for convenience. The agent proposes. The kernel decides. A person commands.
Proposed.
An agent can only propose an effect. It cannot cause one.
Checked.
A deterministic policy gate checks every proposal against fixed rules.
Approved.
Where the policy requires it, a person approves before anything happens.
Executed.
The kernel’s own broker carries out exactly what was decided, and nothing else.
Journaled.
Every step is written to a hash-chained journal, so the record can be checked afterward.
A small kernel. A person in command.
What it is built to do.
Design intent, stated plainly. We will say so when each one is proven in the field, and not before.
No override switch.
Nothing in the terminal is meant to approve what the kernel says needs a person.
Starts held.
Every boot begins in a safe hold. A person resumes it.
Small enough to audit.
The kernel is kept deliberately small so that people can read all of it.
Open for inspection.
Safety-critical code is meant to be read. We are preparing to release it so others can test it and break it.
Where it goes next.
Research, stated as design intent. None of it is built yet, and we will say so until it is proven.
One person, many machines.
In research. Meant to let one person approve, hold, or stop a whole fleet of robots and craft from a single place.
Any maker.
In research. Meant to govern machines from any manufacturer, not only ours, through the same policy gate and the same journal.
Where it stands.
Early and pre-release. ILO is research and development, labeled as such until it is field-proven.
Read the AI safety commitmentEarly, pre-release
The kernel
Version 2.0, planned licence
