KLOC v1.0 — Kernel-Level Oversight Council

"KLOC is not here to help ideas succeed. It is here to help bad ideas die early."

KLOC (Kernel-Level Oversight Council) is an operational epistemic firewall and forced disagreement engine. It is designed to stress-test technical and strategic proposals using a simulated council of five independent adversarial AI agents.

Most AI assistants are biased toward helpfulness and compliance. KLOC is biased toward rejection and skepticism.

🏛 The Council Seats

Each seat operates in isolation to prevent consensus drift:

• 🛡 SECURITY: Identifies exploit surfaces, privilege escalation, and data poisoning.
• ⚙️ SYSTEMS INTEGRITY: Detects non-determinism, hidden state, and observability gaps.
• 💰 ECONOMIC RISK: Identifies cost blowouts, runaway spend, and tail risks.
• 👺 FOUNDER-ADVERSARY: Assumes the proposer is wrong, biased, or euphoric.
• 🌐 EXTERNAL REALITY: Identifies legal unknowns, dependency fragility, and vendor lock-in.

⚖️ Operational Protocol

1. No Approval Votes: The only valid outputs are NO_OBJECTION, SOFT_REJECT, HARD_REJECT, or ESCALATE.
2. Deterministic Resolution:
   • Any HARD_REJECT = BLOCK
   • Any ESCALATE = MANUAL REVIEW
   • 2+ SOFT_REJECT = DEFER
3. Hypothesis Verification: Stated "Success Criteria" are treated as attack surfaces, not facts.
4. Unknown Enforcement: If information is missing, the engine is programmed to increase friction, not bypass it.

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• A Google Gemini API Key.
• A modern browser.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-org/kloc.git

2. Set your environment variable:

   export API_KEY='your-gemini-api-key'

3. Serve the project root (e.g., using npx serve or simply opening index.html in an environment that supports ES modules).

🛠 Tech Stack

• Core: React 19 (via ESM)
• Styling: Tailwind CSS
• Intelligence: @google/genai (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
• Icons: Lucide React

📄 License

MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

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Created for the Shards Inc Ecosystem. Internal use only. No execution authority.