Control principles

Fail closed at the boundary. Retain evidence after the decision.

  • Tenant-scoped identity, authorization, and audit evidence
  • Policy-controlled action decisions with explicit approval and denial states
  • Signed command envelope and MQTT gateway re-verification direction
  • Replay, expiry, nonce, and provenance checks in the control path
  • Canary, pause, rollback, telemetry, and evidence retention capabilities

Readiness boundary

Production certification requires more than a build or a test suite.

The repository records external requirements that remain outside this public-site implementation: named production infrastructure, immutable image deployment, backup restore evidence, independent security review, and an observed rollout with approvals. Until those records exist, Vaqri should be described as a release-candidate or staging direction, not production-certified.