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 ## 🛡️Defenses & Mitigation
 
+- [Orchard Kit](https://github.com/OrchardHarmonics/orchard-kit) — Alignment, safety & cognitive architecture for autonomous AI agents. Runtime membrane security, epistemic hygiene, self-audit, agent discovery, cognitive architecture, collective cognition. Zero dependencies.
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 ### 📑Papers
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