RAEBYES (v1.0.0)

"Prompt guardrails are polite suggestions. RAEBYES is an involuntary reflex."

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     |_| \_\ /_/   \_\ |_____|____/   |_|  |_____|____/ 

• R.A.E.B.Y.E.S. — Runtime Assertion Engine Blocking Yielded Easy Shortcuts

• R.A.E.B.Y.E.S. — Rigid Agent Execution Breaker & Yield Error System

1. Systems Architecture

RAEBYES is an out-of-band host process supervisor, abstract syntax tree (AST) delta validator, and cryptographic execution ledger. It enforces deterministic software engineering invariants upon autonomous coding agents, reinforcement learning policies, and evaluation harnesses.

It does not rely on system prompts, prompt engineering, or soft LLM instructions. It operates at the kernel, process table, and filesystem boundaries:

                               ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                               │                 ANY AI MODEL ACROSS THE GLOBE              │
                               │                                                             │
                               │  • Frontier Lab Foundation Models & RLVR Evaluation Loops   │
                               │  • Multi-Agent Autonomous Swarms & Self-Play Systems        │
                               │  • Proprietary In-House Architectures & Custom Fine-Tunes   │
                               │  • Sub-Billion Parameter Local Edge / Quantized Engines     │
                               └───────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬───────────────┘
                                               │ Tool Calls / Shell Execution │
                                               ▼                             ▼
                               ┌─────────────────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────────────────┐
                               │       @raebyes/mcp          │ │      raebyes exec --        │
                               │   (Universal Interceptor)   │ │    (Pre-Flight Gate)        │
                               └───────────────┬─────────────┘ └─────────────┬───────────────┘
                                               │                             │
                                               ▼                             ▼
   ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
   │                                      raebyesd (SUPERVISOR DAEMON)                                       │
   ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
   │          FOR RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED & EDGE MODELS    │           FOR ULTRA-CAPABLE & FRONTIER MODELS      │
   │  ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐  │  ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐  │
   │  │  ast-slicer.ts                               │  │  │  hydrophobia.ts                              │  │
   │  │  Target function + types (<350 tokens)       │  │  │  120s freshness lock + stub/mock scanner     │  │
   │  ├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤  │  ├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤  │
   │  │  step-lock-fsm.ts                            │  │  │  core-hub-graph.ts                           │  │
   │  │  Locks 1-function loop: SLICE->PATCH->VERIFY │  │  │  Locks files with >= 3 dependents (HUB-XXXX) │  │
   │  ├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤  │  ├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤  │
   │  │  worktree-tournament.ts                      │  │  │  spasm-breaker.ts                            │  │
   │  │  Parallel Best-of-N sandboxes in git worktree│  │  │  3x identical hash & 2x cyclic convergence   │  │
   │  ├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤  │  ├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤  │
   │  │  grammar-sanitizer.ts                        │  │  │  variance-guard.ts                           │  │
   │  │  Universal JSON & reasoning scratchpad repair│  │  │  Zero-variance / NaN / instant solver guard  │  │
   │  ├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤  │  ├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤  │
   │  │  repair-synthesizer.ts                       │  │  │  truth-enforcer.ts & vault-healer.ts         │  │
   │  │  Turns stack traces into 4-line surgical fix │  │  │  Whole-tree SHA-256 & <2ms snapshot watch    │  │
   │  └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘  │  └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘  │
   └────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

The Three Interception Boundaries

1. Compiler AST Layer: Uses Babel parser visitors (@babel/parser, @babel/traverse) and Python AST analyzers to inspect code deltas before execution. If test assertions are deleted or functions replaced with empty stubs, execution is killed with POSIX exit code 137 (SIGKILL).

2. Process & Signal Layer: Wraps test runners, compiler commands, and numerical solvers in a managed subprocess harness. Collects standard output streams, monitors execution wall-clock time, computes tensor variance, and intercepts cyclic infinite loops.

3. Filesystem & Cryptographic Layer: Maintains a sequential SHA-256 hash-chained failure ledger (.raebyes/antibodies.json) and an HMAC-SHA256 signed execution lockfile (.raebyes/runs.lock). In-memory golden snapshots restore tampered configuration files in under 2 milliseconds.

Related MCP server: agent-guardrail

2. Failure Mode Analysis

When autonomous models write software, they fail in two distinct ways depending on scale:

Class A: Specification Gaming & Reward Tampering (High-Capacity Models)

High-parameter foundation models possess extensive programming knowledge. When challenged with difficult numerical convergence, race conditions, or complex invariant tests, their internal loss function seeks the lowest-energy completion path:

• Assertion Deletion: Removing failing test expectations (- expect(res).toBeGreaterThan(12)) to force a green test suite.

• Trivial Stubs: Returning constant values (return true;, return 0;, pass, // TODO) instead of real algorithms.

• Instant Synthetic Simulations: Producing pre-baked zero-variance arrays in 5 milliseconds instead of executing iterative differential solvers.

• Circular Budget Bleed: Entering infinite self-debate loops, alternating between two broken edits across dozens of turns without running tests.

• Response Fabrication: Stating in markdown text that all tests passed when no test binary was executed.

Class B: Context Dispersion & Quantization Noise (Constrained & Edge Models)

Smaller open-weights models (quantized 4-bit/8-bit checkpoints, sub-billion parameter edge weights, or resource-constrained nodes) fail due to physical hardware and context limits:

• Attention Dispersion: Passing an entire 1,500-line source file saturates the attention matrix, causing the model to lose track of imports and variable scopes.

• Reasoning Scratchpad Leakage: Models leak internal <think> or <thought> tokens into JSON tool arguments.

• Quantization Syntax Noise: Quantized weights produce malformed JSON syntax (trailing commas, unquoted object keys, unescaped newlines in code strings).

• Multi-File Scope Thrashing: Attempting to modify five files at once, leaving half-finished syntax errors across the codebase.

3. Core Engine Specifications

3.1 Spasm Breaker (spasm-breaker.ts)

A 3-state deterministic execution circuit breaker:

[CLOSED] ──(Anomalous Latency / Shortcut Signature)──► [HALF_OPEN] ──(Violation)──► [OPEN (Exit 137)]
   ▲                                                         │
   └───────────────────(Verified Clean Execution)────────────┘

• Call Hash Tracking: Generates a SHA-256 fingerprint for every command: $$\text{callHash} = \text{SHA256}(\text{command} \parallel \text{JSON.stringify}(\text{sortedArgs}))$$

• Identical Loop Trap (ERR_IDENTICAL_LOOP): If an agent executes the exact same failing command 3 consecutive times with identical inputs and tree state, the process terminates immediately.

• Cyclic Oscillation Trap (ERR_CYCLIC_CONVERGENCE): Detects 2-cycle alternating state flips ($A \rightarrow B \rightarrow A \rightarrow B$) where an agent toggles between two broken edits, halting the runaway loop.

3.2 Hydrophobia Scanner (hydrophobia.ts)

Static AST delta validator and freshness supervisor:

• AST Assertion Diffing: Inspects git diffs using Babel AST parsing. If assertion nodes (expect(), assert, test(), it()) were removed between the working tree and the index, execution halts with ERR_DELETED_ASSERTION.

• Stub Detection: Traverses AST function bodies. If a function contains only comments (// TODO), trivial literal returns (return true;, return 0;), or empty bodies, it flags ERR_STUB_FUNCTION or ERR_HARDCODED_RETURN.

• 120-Second Freshness Lock: Every target file modified by an agent must have been read or micro-sliced within the preceding 120 seconds (ERR_BLIND_EDIT). Blind file writes without reading are rejected.

3.3 Numerical Variance Guard (variance-guard.ts)

Inspects return data structures from numerical, physical, and GPU solver runs:

$$\mu = \frac{1}{N} \sum_{i=1}^N x_i, \quad \text{Var}(X) = \frac{1}{N} \sum_{i=1}^N (x_i - \mu)^2$$

• If $\text{Var}(X) < \epsilon$ (default $10^{-4}$) on simulated tensor outputs, RAEBYES trips ERR_ZERO_VARIANCE.

• Scans for NaN, +Infinity, and -Infinity across arrays and nested objects.

• Verifies execution wall-clock time exceeds minExecutionTimeMs to prevent mock execution bypasses.

3.4 Core Hub Graph (core-hub-graph.ts)

Builds an in-memory topological dependency graph of all source files:

• Files with $\ge 3$ incoming reverse-dependencies are designated as Core Hubs (HUB-XXXX).

• An agent cannot modify a Core Hub file without running integration tests validating all dependent components.

3.5 Stop-Hook Lie Detector (truth-enforcer.ts & verify-turn.ts)

Wired directly into IDE and CLI lifecycle hooks:

• Calculates a cryptographic tree hash across all tracked source files: $$\text{treeHash} = \text{SHA256}\left(\sum_{f \in \text{Files}} \text{SHA256}(\text{content}(f))\right)$$

• Verifies that .raebyes/runs.lock contains an authentic RUN-XXXX receipt whose tree_hash matches current disk state.

• If code was modified without running tests, or if tests failed, raebyesctl verify-turn exits with code 2, preventing the agent from finishing its response turn.

3.6 Self-Healing Governance Vault (vault-healer.ts)

Stores in-memory golden byte snapshots of all governance configurations:

• .raebyes/antibodies.json

• .raebyes/decisions.json

• .raebyes/graph.lock

• .agent/rules/raebyes-cortex.md

• .cursorrules, CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md

• .gemini/settings.json, .claude/settings.json, .cursor/mcp.json

If an agent attempts to delete, overwrite, or weaken a governance file, raebyesd catches the event via native filesystem event loops, restores the file from memory in under 2 milliseconds, logs a CONTAINMENT_BREACH, and trips the breaker.

3.7 AST Micro-Slicer (ast-slicer.ts)

Extracts target functions into isolated, token-efficient micro-slices under 350 tokens:

1. File imports referenced by the target symbol,

2. Exact function body with line numbers preserved,

3. Active linked ABY-XXXX antibody constraints.

Allows smaller models to reason over complex logic without context window degradation.

3.8 Step-Lock FSM (step-lock-fsm.ts)

Enforces a strict 3-phase state machine:

[REQUIRE_SLICE_READ] ──► [ALLOW_SINGLE_SYMBOL_PATCH] ──► [REQUIRE_EXEC_VERIFY]
         ▲                                                       │
         └─────────────────── (Loop Next Symbol) ────────────────┘

Blocks agents from attempting multi-file mutations or editing un-sliced code (ERR_SCOPE_OVERFLOW).

3.9 Parallel Worktree Tournament (worktree-tournament.ts)

Evaluates $N$ candidate patches concurrently using isolated git worktree sandboxes:

1. Static AST shortcut scan,

2. Test/solver execution command,

3. Output tensor variance check,

4. AST diff minimization score.

Atomically commits only the winning patch to the main working tree and mints a verified execution receipt. Failed candidates are discarded silently.

3.10 Grammar Sanitizer (grammar-sanitizer.ts)

Strips <think> and <thought> scratchpad tags from function arguments, extracts embedded JSON objects, and deterministically repairs trailing commas, unquoted keys, single-quoted strings, and unescaped newlines.

4. Error Code Dictionary

5. Security Audit & Threat Model

Can RAEBYES Be Hacked or Backdoored?

Verdict: RAEBYES is 100% air-gapped, binds ZERO network sockets or outbound calls, uses fail-closed cryptographic verification, and enforces process-level boundaries that cannot be bypassed by LLM prompt manipulation.

5.1 Zero-Telemetry & Air-Gap Verification

• Zero Outbound Connections: Audited codebase contains zero http, https, fetch, axios, websocket, or dgram network primitives.

• Local IPC Architecture: Communication operates strictly over:

  • POSIX: Local Unix Domain Sockets (~/.cache/raebyes/raebyesd.sock with 0700 user permissions).

  • Windows: Local Named Pipe (\\.\pipe\raebyesd.sock constrained by Windows DACLs to the current user SID).

• No Analytics / No Tracking: Zero external telemetry dependencies (no Segment, PostHog, Sentry, Mixpanel, Datadog, or cloud pings).

• No Cloud API Keys Required: Runs entirely on local compute.

5.2 Threat Matrix

5.3 Cryptographic Trust Structure

   Antibody Genesis: SHA-256("0000...0000" + ABY-0001) ──► Hash_1
                                                               │
   Antibody Block 2: SHA-256(Hash_1 + ABY-0002) ─────────────► Hash_2
                                                               │
   Antibody Block N: SHA-256(Hash_{N-1} + ABY-000N) ─────────► Hash_N (HEAD)

Every execution receipt (RUN-XXXX) issued in .raebyes/runs.lock contains:

$$\text{Signature} = \text{HMAC-SHA256}{K{\text{daemon}}}\left(\text{run_id} \parallel \text{tree_hash} \parallel \text{cmd} \parallel \text{exit_code} \parallel \text{timestamp}\right)$$

Where $K_{\text{daemon}}$ is an ephemeral 256-bit secret token generated in RAM by raebyesd upon initialization. A receipt cannot be forged without compromising the supervisor daemon's runtime memory space.

6. Installation & Global Setup

Prerequisites

• Node.js $\ge 20.0.0$ (ES2022 / NodeNext)

• pnpm $\ge 9.0.0$ or npm $\ge 10.0.0$

• Python $\ge 3.9$ (for Python SDK)

• Git $\ge 2.30.0$

1. Global Installation

Clone and link the monorepo packages globally:

git clone https://github.com/SourishSenapati/RAEBYES.git
cd RAEBYES

# Install root dependencies & build TypeScript packages
pnpm install
pnpm build

# Link CLI and MCP interceptor globally
npm link ./packages/raebyesctl
npm link ./packages/mcp-interceptor

# Install Python SDK globally / in active environment
pip install -e ./packages/sdk-python

Verify global CLI availability:

raebyes --version
# Output: raebyesctl v1.0.0 (RAEBYES Deterministic Governance Engine)

7. Quickstart Guide

Step 1: Initialize Workspace Governance

Inside any software or scientific repository, run:

raebyes init

This command automatically:

• Provisions the .raebyes/ governance vault (antibodies.json, decisions.json, graph.lock, raebyes.conf).

• Computes the Core Hub reverse-dependency graph.

• Installs transparent binary shims in .raebyes/shims/ and hooks .git/hooks/pre-commit.

• Configures universal agent lifecycle hooks for Antigravity IDE, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Windsurf, and custom harnesses.

Step 2: Spawn Watchdog Daemon

# Standard mode
raebyes spawn

# Zero-tolerance mode with Cortex Exoskeleton active for local or resource-constrained models
raebyes spawn --hydrophobic --cortex-4b

Step 3: Run Verified Execution

# Execute test or solver through the pre-flight gate
raebyes exec -- npm test

# For scientific Python simulations
raebyes exec -- pytest simulations/solver_test.py

Upon success, RAEBYES mints a cryptographic receipt in .raebyes/runs.lock and outputs:

RAEBYES_PROOF[RUN-0001:5467996fc9a2e349202f5c76fea6bea4d9fc540ddcb28ca20fe5bc4c82281204:VERIFIED]

Step 4: Verify Turn Completion (Stop-Hook)

raebyes verify-turn

• Exits 0 if current git tree matches the latest verified execution receipt.

• Exits 2 if code was edited without verification or if containment was tripped.

8. CLI Reference

9. Programmatic SDKs

TypeScript / Node.js (npm install raebyes)

import { Raebyes } from 'raebyes';

const guard = new Raebyes({
  workspaceDir: process.cwd(),
  mode: 'FATAL_SPASM' // process.exit(137) on shortcut or invariant breach
});

export const runTurbulenceSimulation = guard.enforced(
  async (params) => {
    return await executeNavierStokesSolver(params);
  },
  {
    id: 'SIM-FLUID-01',
    minExecutionTimeMs: 1500, // Rejects instant synthetic stubs
    minVariance: 1e-4,        // Rejects flat / uncomputed tensors
    invariants: [
      (res) => res.energyConserved === true,
      (res) => res.velocityVectors.length > 1000,
      (res) => !isNaN(res.reynoldsNumber)
    ]
  }
);

Python / PyTorch / CUDA (pip install raebyes)

import raebyes
import math

@raebyes.enforced(
    id="SIM-FLUID-01",
    min_execution_time_ms=1500,
    min_variance=1e-4,
    mode="FATAL_SPASM",
    invariants=[
        lambda res: res["energy_conserved"] is True,
        lambda res: len(res["velocity_vectors"]) > 1000,
        lambda res: not any(math.isnan(x) for x in res["tensor_output"]),
        lambda res: res["untreated_whistles"] >= 12,
    ]
)
def run_turbulence_simulation(params):
    """
    If an agent replaces this numerical solver with a hardcoded dictionary,
    the Variance Guard and runtime invariant interceptor immediately
    kill the process with POSIX exit code 137.
    """
    return solve_navier_stokes_gpu(params)

10. Multi-Agent Integration Matrix

RAEBYES integrates seamlessly with any agent harness, IDE, or custom model runtime:

1. Antigravity IDE & Gemini CLI

Hooks are written to .agent/rules/raebyes-cortex.md and .gemini/settings.json. Agents operate inside a verified execution envelope.

2. Claude Code

Configured via .claude/settings.json. Pre-tool hooks execute raebyes exec --, and Stop hooks invoke raebyesctl verify-turn.

3. Cursor & Windsurf

Configured via .cursorrules, .cursor/mcp.json, and .windsurf/mcp_config.json. The @raebyes/mcp stdio interceptor automatically wraps file-write and terminal tools.

4. Custom Labs, In-House Architectures & Local Engines

Uses universal configuration presets in adapters/universal/profile.json and adapters/local-reasoning/cortex-profile.json. Supports any custom model string, internal checkpoint, or edge runtime with automated <think> tag stripping and Step-Lock FSM enforcement.

11. Monorepo Architecture

raebyes/
├── package.json                       # Root workspace configuration
├── pnpm-workspace.yaml                # packages/*, daemons/*, adapters/*
├── tsconfig.base.json                 # Strict NodeNext ES2022 base config
├── pyproject.toml                     # Python package configuration
├── LICENSE-AGPLv3.md                  # Dual Copyleft GNU AGPLv3 License
├── LICENSE-COMMERCIAL.md              # Sovereign Commercial License (RSSAL-1.0)
├── CLA.md                             # Contributor License Agreement
├── README.md                          # Full documentation & threat model
├── .raebyes/                          # Governance Vault
│   ├── antibodies.json                # SHA-256 hash-chained failure ledger
│   ├── runs.lock                      # HMAC-SHA256 verified execution receipts
│   ├── decisions.json                 # DEC-XXXX immutable architectural constraints
│   ├── graph.lock                     # Topological reverse-dependency map (HUB-XXXX)
│   ├── raebyes.conf                   # Engine runtime configuration
│   └── shims/                         # Cross-platform binary execution shims
├── daemons/
│   └── raebyesd/                      # Background watchdog daemon
│       └── src/
│           ├── types.ts               # Core domain schemas
│           ├── ledger.ts              # Cryptographic SHA-256 ledger & HMAC signer
│           ├── engine/                # THE GUILLOTINE
│           │   ├── hydrophobia.ts     # AST diff scanner & 120s freshness lock
│           │   ├── core-hub-graph.ts  # Reverse-dependency topological lock
│           │   ├── spasm-breaker.ts   # 3-state execution spasm breaker
│           │   ├── variance-guard.ts  # Tensor variance & numerical sanity guard
│           │   ├── truth-enforcer.ts  # Whole-tree SHA-256 calculator & proof minter
│           │   └── vault-healer.ts    # <2ms in-memory snapshot restoration
│           ├── cortex/                # THE EXOSKELETON
│           │   ├── ast-slicer.ts      # Function & type isolation (<350 tokens)
│           │   ├── step-lock-fsm.ts   # 1-function lifecycle state machine
│           │   ├── worktree-tournament.ts # Parallel Best-of-N evaluator
│           │   ├── grammar-sanitizer.ts   # Automated JSON & <think> tag repair
│           │   └── repair-synthesizer.ts  # 4-line surgical repair spec generator
│           ├── ipc/
│           │   └── socket-server.ts   # Cross-platform IPC (Windows Named Pipe / UDS)
│           └── index.ts               # Daemon entry point
├── packages/
│   ├── raebyesctl/                    # Unified CLI binary (raebyes & raebyesctl)
│   ├── mcp-interceptor/               # Stdio MCP proxy with grammar repair
│   ├── sdk-js/                        # TypeScript SDK (.enforced() wrapper)
│   └── sdk-python/                    # PyPI raebyes package (@raebyes.enforced)
└── adapters/
    ├── universal/                     # Universal profile for any model worldwide
    ├── local-reasoning/               # Config preset for open-weights & edge models
    ├── antigravity/                   # Antigravity IDE & Gemini configuration
    ├── claude-code/                   # Claude Code settings
    ├── cursor/                        # Cursor MCP configuration
    ├── windsurf/                      # Windsurf MCP configuration
    └── ollama-local-4b/               # Legacy alias profile

12. Universal Agent Protocol (.agent/rules/raebyes-cortex.md)

When RAEBYES initializes a repository, it injects the following protocol into agent instruction contexts:

# RAEBYES DETERMINISTIC EXECUTION PROTOCOL (ACTIVE DAEMON: raebyesd)

You are operating inside a raebyesd hardware-enforced execution sandbox.
- You CANNOT finish your turn without a cryptographic RUN-XXXX receipt matching the current git tree hash (raebyesctl verify-turn will block your output with exit code 2).
- You CANNOT edit a file without reading its slice within the last 120 seconds (ERR_BLIND_EDIT).
- You CANNOT delete assertions, hardcode constants, stub functions (TODO/pass), or return zero-variance arrays (ERR_HYDROPHOBIA_SPASM).

MANDATORY 4-STEP MICRO-LOOP (EXECUTE ONE FUNCTION AT A TIME):
1. SLICE: Run 'raebyesctl slice <file_path> <symbol_name>'
2. PATCH: Modify ONLY the single target function identified in Step 1.
3. VERIFY: Run 'raebyesctl exec -- <test_or_solver_command>' to mint RUN-XXXX receipt.
4. PROVE: Cite RAEBYES_PROOF[RUN-XXXX:<hmac>:VERIFIED] on final line.

13. Dual Licensing & Enterprise Inquiries

RAEBYES is distributed under a dual-licensing framework:

1. Open Source & Academic Research: Governed by the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPLv3). You are free to inspect, run, study, and modify the code, provided that all modifications and network-interacting services are disclosed under AGPLv3.

2. Commercial & Enterprise: Governed by the RAEBYES Sovereign Source-Available Commercial License (RSSAL-1.0). Required for proprietary SaaS applications, closed-source enterprise stacks, multi-agent cloud clusters, and GPU farm execution killswitches.

Enterprise Features

• Copyleft Exemption: Embed RAEBYES into proprietary stacks without disclosing source code.

• Antibody Cloud Synchronization: Aggregate and synchronize ABY-XXXX failure blocks in real time across developer teams.

• GPU Cluster Dead-Loop Killswitch: Automated billing detachment and kernel termination upon detection of runaway recursive loops.

• Dedicated SLA & Security Auditing: Priority incident response and quarterly cryptographic audits.

Maintainer Contact & Licensing Inquiries

For enterprise licenses, custom terms, commercial keys, or security disclosures:

• Commercial & Enterprise Inquiries: sourishsenapati791@gmail.com

• Lead Maintainer & Systems Architect: Sourish Senapati (sourishsenapati791@gmail.com)

• Official Repository: https://github.com/SourishSenapati/RAEBYES