STANDARDS
ATOM OS Standards
LCAC, RIS, and CII form the foundation of governed machine reasoning. These standards define the behavior, boundaries, and integrity of cognition - independent of any model or provider.
FRAMEWORK
The three standards that govern cognition inside ATOM OS.
These standards are not APIs or guidelines. They are OS-level rules that define how reasoning behaves, how trust evolves, and how cognitive boundaries are enforced across environments.
LCAC
LCAC - Least-Context Access Control
LCAC is the boundary system for cognition. It defines what a reasoning process is allowed to access, how far it can expand, and which transitions it is permitted to take.
LCAC enforces:
- Context boundaries - which information cognitive processes may reference
- Role boundaries - how identity shapes reasoning permissions
- Transition rules - allowed expansions between reasoning states
- Isolation zones - preventing reasoning leakage between tenants or agents
- Termination conditions - when reasoning must stop or be rerouted
LCAC brings Zero Trust principles into cognition: reasoning should access the least context necessary to perform its task.
LCAC Domains
- • Identity Domain
- • Context Domain
- • Role Domain
- • Reasoning Boundaries
- • Transition Permissions
- • Isolation Zones
RIS
RIS - Reasoning Integrity Standard
RIS defines the structural integrity of reasoning. It evaluates how stable, coherent, and consistent a reasoning process is - independent of correctness or output comparison.
RIS evaluates:
- Structural stability - whether the reasoning chain maintains logical continuity
- Coherence - whether steps relate predictably to each other
- Semantic consistency - alignment of meaning across reasoning steps
- Contradiction exposure - internal disagreement within reasoning
- Variance signatures — how reasoning changes across runs or providers
RIS elevates reasoning from “a string of tokens” to a formal cognitive process that can be evaluated, compared, and governed.
RIS Dimensions
- • Coherence
- • Structural Alignment
- • Temporal Stability
- • Contradiction Patterns
- • Variance Across Providers
CII
CII - Cognitive Integrity Index
CII is the trust standard for machine reasoning. It reflects how reliable, stable, and predictable a cognitive process is over time and across environments.
CII incorporates:
- Historical trust - long-range behavior profiles
- Cross-provider consistency - stability when switching execution surfaces
- Drift history - patterns of behavioral change
- Role & identity alignment - trust relative to who initiated cognition
- Structural integrity - RIS-informed reasoning confidence
CII allows organizations to compare cognition the way infrastructure teams compare uptime - a common unit of trust across models, agents, and runtime environments.
CII Signals
- • Trust Evolution
- • Drift Lineage
- • Provider Stability
- • Identity Alignment
- • Structural Confidence
SUMMARY
LCAC, RIS, and CII form the backbone of governed intelligence.
These standards allow cognition to function as a system rather than a collection of unpredictable behaviors. ATOM OS enforces them natively, establishing the world’s first unified framework for safe, stable, and governed machine reasoning.