Neural override verification and constraint architecture for sovereign AGI execution at driver, firmware, and hypervisor gateways

A system comprising one or more processors and a non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to enforce a fail-closed verify-to-activation gate for an AI (artificial intelligence) agent by:

• (a) encoding deployment logic into an Immutable Constraint Chain (ICC) and anchoring a commitment in an append-only verifiable log that publishes signed heads;
• at runtime, within a read-only Encrypted Logic Vault (ELV), verifying inclusion relative to a current signed head under a freshness policy and, upon head advance, verifying append-only-evolution (consistency) from a previously observed head;
• (b) verifying license authority at a licensing gate (GLG) including a license-tier check and an m-of-n quorum;
• (c) responsive to (a)-(b) passing, minting a short-lived, audience-bound permit, recording a permit record in an Immutable Arbitration Ledger (IAL), and requiring a valid, unexpired, and unrevoked permit identifier prior to any device I/O or network egress;
• otherwise failing closed with a structured disposition selected from HOLD, QUARANTINE, DENY, or ESCALATE;
• wherein (i) absence, expiration, or revocation of the permit identifier results in DENY, and (ii) each evaluation binds a nonce and a monotonic counter to form a concurrency-prevention tuple;
• and (d) enforcing the requirement of (c) at an implementation hook selected from:
• (i) a kernel-mode driver path prior to doorbell or queue submission to an accelerator, (ii) a device-firmware microcode path prior to dispatch, or (iii) a hypervisor intercept path for VM-exit or network egress, thereby denying actuation absent a valid permit identifier.