Authority Resolution
Checks whether authority would remain authentic, active, scoped, delegated, and valid under present conditions.
Runtime Integrity Control
Governance While Execution Continues
RiCo-01 is ManChine AI Technology's runtime integrity architecture. It defines how to revalidate the conditions supporting continued execution after REB-01 has admitted consequential action.
Standards Relationship
RiCo is an implementation effort informed by the Runtime Governance Standards Family.
The Runtime Governance Standards Family defines normative requirements. RiCo-01 describes an architecture for meeting relevant runtime-continuity responsibilities; the public architecture and examples do not, by themselves, demonstrate a deployed enforcement system. Different implementations may satisfy the same requirements through different designs.
Why Teams Study RiCo-01
Runtime governance where it matters most.
The RiCo-01 architecture helps teams examine whether consequential execution remains authorized and accountable after activation. It specifies repeated checks of the conditions supporting continued action.
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 focuses on present conditions after REB-01 has enforced admission, alongside the original evaluation by RGE-01 and later audit.
Core Functions
What RiCo-01 Is Designed to Revalidate
The RiCo-01 design calls for renewed checks after execution activation as relevant conditions change.
Supporting Evidence
Checks whether supporting evidence would remain current, complete, attributable, and sufficiently reliable for continued use.
Context & Policy
Rechecks whether operational conditions, policy constraints, consent, and environmental assumptions would still support continuation.
Fail-Closed Control
When continued legitimacy cannot be established, the design calls for a bounded response such as suspension, restriction, escalation, or a stop.
Execution Integrity
RiCo-01 addresses legitimacy after execution activation.
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.
Under this design, if the system can no longer establish the basis for continuation, execution should pause or stop for an appropriate decision. Transport does not imply trust. Initial admissibility does not guarantee continuing authority.
Appears Correct
Outputs remain coherent and technically successful.
Remains Legitimate
Execution is still justified under present governance conditions.
The RiCo-01 design preserves this distinction before unsupported consequence propagates further.
Runtime Boundary
RiCo-01 Rechecks Before Active Execution Continues
After REB-01 has admitted an action, the RiCo-01 design rechecks continuing authority, evidence, context, policy, provenance, and human oversight during execution.
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
Designed to revalidate whether local and exchanged governance conditions still justify continued execution after activation.
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. RiCo-01 is a separate implementation effort intended to satisfy applicable runtime-continuity requirements; it is not a standard.
- RGF-01 — Foundations of Runtime Governance
- RGV-01 — Runtime Governance Vocabulary
Runtime Governance Ecosystem
Related Runtime Governance Implementations
RiCo is an implementation effort within a broader Runtime Governance ecosystem. Implementations can deliver standards-defined capabilities; they do not define or replace the standards.
- 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 the public architecture documents, examples, interfaces, and runtime scenarios in the 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. The public GitHub repository contains architecture and example materials.
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.