Authority Resolution
Determines whether authority remains authentic, active, scoped, delegated, and valid under present conditions.
Runtime Integrity Control
Governance at the Moment Consequence Becomes Real
RiCo is ManChine AI Technology's runtime governance engine that implements the Runtime Governance Standards Family by continuously determining whether authority, evidence, context, policy, and admissibility remain valid after consequential execution activates.
Standards Relationship
RiCo implements the Runtime Governance Standards Family.
The Runtime Governance Standards Family defines the normative requirements for Runtime Governance. RiCo demonstrates one implementation of those requirements within operational systems. Different implementations may conform to the same standards while using different architectures.
Why Organizations Use RiCo-01
Runtime governance where it matters most.
RiCo-01 helps organizations ensure AI decisions remain authorized, accountable, and governable while systems are operating — not only before deployment or after an audit. It continuously evaluates whether the conditions supporting consequential execution remain valid.
The Governance Problem
Successful execution does not always mean legitimate execution.
Systems can continue producing coherent outputs even after the conditions that originally justified those outputs have changed. RiCo-01 evaluates the present — not only the original authorization from RGE-01 or the post-execution audit.
Core Functions
What RiCo-01 Evaluates at Runtime
RiCo-01 moves governance from static approval toward continuous validation immediately after consequence becomes binding.
Evidence Admissibility
Evaluates whether supporting evidence remains current, complete, attributable, and sufficiently reliable for consequential use.
Context & Policy
Revalidates whether operational conditions, policy constraints, consent, and environmental assumptions still support execution.
Fail-Closed Control
When legitimacy cannot be established, execution is refused, suspended, escalated, or reduced rather than silently allowed forward.
Execution Integrity
RiCo-01 protects the boundary between intent and consequence.
Most governance systems focus on what happens before deployment or after execution. RiCo-01 focuses on the critical period after REB-01 has enforced admission: whether continued reliance remains justified now.
If the system can no longer truthfully establish the basis for continuation, execution does not proceed. Transport does not imply trust. Trust does not imply admissibility. Admissibility does not imply continued execution.
Appears Correct
Outputs remain coherent and technically successful.
Remains Legitimate
Execution is still justified under present governance conditions.
RiCo-01 preserves the distinction before unsupported consequence propagates.
Runtime Boundary
RiCo-01 Validates Before Action Proceeds
RiCo-01 operates at the point where proposed action is evaluated against live authority, evidence, context, policy, provenance, and human oversight.
RiCo in the Governance Stack
From Exchange to Execution
RiCo-01 works within the Runtime Governance Stack™ and alongside the Runtime Governance Protocol™ to preserve legitimacy from architectural exchange through consequential execution.
Runtime Governance Protocol™
Governs the exchange of governance objects between independent architectures.
Explore Research →RiCo-01
Continuously revalidates whether exchanged and local governance conditions remain admissible at runtime.
REB-01
Determines whether consequence is allowed to become real or must fail closed at the Runtime Execution Boundary.
Explore Architecture →Standards Evolution
RiCo evolves alongside the published standards.
Published standards establish the normative foundations of Runtime Governance. As the Standards Family evolves, RiCo continues to implement those requirements while remaining an implementation rather than the standard itself.
- RGF-01 — Runtime Governance Foundations
- RGV-01 — Runtime Governance Vocabulary
Runtime Governance Ecosystem
Related Runtime Governance Implementations
RiCo is one implementation within a broader ecosystem of Runtime Governance implementation platforms. Implementations deliver standards-defined capabilities; they do not define or replace them.
- PGC01 — Phone, Glasses, and Case, ManChine's device platform for delivering Runtime Governance capabilities into a connected device environment
Open Development
Follow RiCo's Technical Development
Review selected runtime governance prototypes, implementation work, and architectural experiments through the public repository.
Research & Open Development
Explore the ideas behind RiCo-01.
RiCo-01 is supported by ManChine's ongoing research in runtime governance, continuity architecture, and consequential AI. Technical prototypes are also available through the public GitHub repository.
Runtime Governance
Execution must remain justified — not merely possible.
RiCo-01 is designed to preserve runtime integrity, legitimacy continuity, and accountable consequence as conditions change.