Canonical source: https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/HHI_GOV_01
Not valid for audit, licensing, or enforcement.
cd ~ cd HHI_GOV_01 git checkout -b readiness-clarity nano README.md
Governance-Lock Notice
This standard is locked at v1.0.0-governance-lock. It defines enforceable governance behavior, not ethics or best practices. HHI-GOV-01 is a downstream governance standard within the Hollow House Institute stack.
Upstream authority:
- Hollow_House_Institute
- Hollow_House_Standards_Library
This standard inherits definitions, terminology, and governance constraints from upstream repositories. HHI_GOV_01 is the canonical governance standard of Hollow House Institute.
It defines singular decision authority, escalation integrity, and behavioral drift prevention over time.
No policy, ethics framework, dataset, or operational document may supersede this standard.
Governance is infrastructure, not guidance.
Time turns behavior into infrastructure. HHI-GOV-01 is a public governance standard defining the minimum structural requirements for AI systems to prevent silent behavioral drift over time.
The standard treats governance as infrastructure rather than policy. It specifies enforceable requirements for authority declaration, accountability binding, non-bypassable evidence generation, numerical drift detection, escalation enforcement, and falsifiable proof criteria within defined system boundaries.
HHI-GOV-01 is intended for regulators, auditors, system designers, researchers, and organizations seeking verifiable governance rather than documentation-based compliance.
Subtitle: Who can stop an AI system—and why that authority must exist before deployment.
HHI-GOV-01 is a canonical governance doctrine defining the minimum authority required to prevent silent failure in AI systems operating over time.
This doctrine establishes that if no actor holds explicit, enforceable stop power at runtime, the system is already ungoverned—regardless of outcomes.
Time turns behavior into infrastructure.
Behavior is the most honest data there is.
- Defines stop power as a non-delegable governance requirement
- Specifies who may stop a system
- Specifies when a system must be stoppable
- Explains why policy, incentives, and review boards fail
- Creates a citation anchor for audits, memos, boards, and regulators
- A certification
- An endorsement of any product, system, or organization
- An implementation, monitoring, or operational tool
- A guarantee of outcomes
- Not an ethics framework
- Not a safety checklist
- Not alignment guidance
- Not a technical control specification
This is authority infrastructure.
Governance Lock: Active
Version: v1.0.0
Change Policy: Additive only
This repository is governed by the Hollow House Institute Master License.
Commercial, advisory, audit, or derivative use requires a paid license.
See /LICENSE.
© Hollow House Institute## What This Standard Is
- A normative governance specification
- A definition of minimum enforceable requirements for AI governance
- A basis for independent conformance and readiness assessment
- A reference for detecting longitudinal governance failure modes
- HHI-GOV-01.md — Canonical standard text (source of truth)
- HHI-GOV-01.pdf — Regulator-legible artifact generated from the canonical text
- LICENSE.md — Usage, limitation, and non-endorsement terms
HHI-GOV-01 may be read, cited, and implemented internally by organizations without fee.
Use of this standard does not imply assessment, certification, endorsement, or approval by Hollow House Institute unless explicitly stated in a separate written agreement.
- Version: 1.0
- Status: Public Governance Standard
- Maintained by: Hollow House Institute
All changes to this standard are versioned and publicly recorded.
HHI-GOV-01 defines governance as the infrastructure that ensures authority, accountability, and escalation cannot drift over time without leaving auditable, reviewable, and enforceable evidence within the defined system boundary.
The execution-time governance workflow diagram documents how decision boundaries, authority assignment, stop authority, escalation paths, and continuous assurance are enforced at runtime under HHI_GOV_01.
Diagram:
diagrams/Execution-Time_Governance_Workflow.pdf
Examples of downstream application and audit evidence may exist in external repositories. Such materials are non-authoritative and do not modify, extend, reinterpret, or supersede this standard.
One example (audit evidence): https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/HHIaudits/tree/main/reference_snapshots/governance_first_interaction_case
The HHIaudits repository contains raw interaction evidence related to unstable mirror dynamics observed in AI systems.
Referenced evidence set:
- Repository: Hollow-house-institute/HHIaudits
- Chat Artifact Set: Unstable Mirrors (2026-02-12)
Authority Note: This reference is informational only. HHI_GOV_01 remains the sole governance and enforcement standard.
This repository inherits governance authority from the HHI Governance Export — Core.
All execution, datasets, research, and audits are bound to its standards and constraints.
The Hollow House Institute governance ecosystem includes a standards-grade audit prompt used to evaluate terminology compliance and structural governance alignment.
Master Prompt Specification
https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/Hollow_House_Standards_Library/blob/main/STANDARDS/MASTER_PROMPT_SPECIFICATION.md
This repository aligns with the Hollow House Institute governance framework.
Canonical reference: https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/Hollow_House_Standards_Library
Enforced terms:
- behavioral-ai-governance
- execution-time-governance
- governance-drift
- behavioral-accumulation
All terminology must remain consistent with the canonical glossary.
Canonical Source (Terminology Layer):
https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/Hollow_House_Standards_Library
Governance Standard (Execution Layer):
https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/HHI_GOV_01
SYSTEM MAP:
https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/HHI_GOV_01/blob/main/SYSTEM_MAP.md
Primary DOI (Execution-Time Governance):
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1876466
Upstream DOI (Terminology Authority):
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1876466
ORCID:
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4806-1949
Glossary Version: v1.3.0
Authority is enforced through explicit Decision Boundaries, escalation thresholds, and Stop Authority conditions.
Release: https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/HHI_GOV_01/releases/tag/v1.0.1-execution-governance-proof
Includes:
- Decision Boundary enforcement
- Stop Authority trigger
- Governance Telemetry
- Interaction Trace
- SHA-256 checksum validation
- Canonical Release: execution-time-governance-v1.0.0
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1876466
- Authority Chain: authority/AUTHORITY_CHAIN_TRACE.json
- Checksum: authority/AUTHORITY_CHAIN_TRACE.sha256
All system validity depends on this chain. Any artifact not bound to this chain is non-authoritative.
https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute https://github.com/amypbui
Amy Pierce Bui Hollow House Institute GitHub https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/Hollow_House_Standards_Library/agents?author=amypbui https://github.com/amypbui https://github.com/amypbui/HHI_Career_Runtime https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/Master_License_Suite
See: TOP_5_HHI_REPOS.md
This repository operates as part of the Hollow House Institute governance ecosystem.
The ecosystem is designed as layered governance infrastructure focused on:
- Execution-Time Governance
- Governance Telemetry
- Runtime Accountability
- Behavioral Drift
- Replayable Governance Evidence
- Longitudinal Accountability
Canonical ecosystem architecture: https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/Governance_Infrastructure_Layer
Canonical role matrix: https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/Governance_Infrastructure_Layer/blob/main/architecture/REPO_ROLE_MATRIX.md
- Hollow_House_Standards_Library
- HHI_GOV_01
- Governance_Infrastructure_Layer
- HHI_Runtime_Proof
- HHI_Behavioral_Drift_Monitor
- HHI_Governance_Workflows
- HHI_Audits
- HHI_Behavioral_Governance_Audit
- Ai_Ethics_Audit_Lab
- HHI_Career_Runtime
- Hollow_House_Institute_site
- HHI_Governance_Portfolio
- Hollow_House_Standards_Library
- HHI_GOV_01
- HHI_Runtime_Proof
- HHI_Audits
- HHI_Career_Runtime
Policies describe intent.
Runtime behavior reveals reality.
Time turns behavior into infrastructure.
Behavior is the most honest data there is.
Canonical Source: https://github.com/Hollow-house-institute/Hollow_House_Standards_Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20044740
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4806-1949
Amy Pierce Bui Founder, Hollow House Institute
This artifact follows the HHI governed authorship pattern: human-origin meaning, AI-executed structure, drift-free.
If you use HHI Governance Runtime in research, publications, governance systems, or software projects, please cite:
Amy Pierce Bui. HHI Governance Runtime v1.0.0: Execution-Time Governance Audit Proof. Zenodo (2026).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20513185
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