SKaiNET Integration with Minerva – Early Feedback and Collaboration

[michalharakal]

Hi Minerva team,

We've recently implemented an initial Minerva export backend in the SKaiNET project and wanted to share our progress as well as open a discussion for future collaboration.

https://github.com/SKaiNET-developers/SKaiNET
https://skainet-developers.github.io/SKaiNET/skainet/how-to/minerva-export.html

What we've implemented

• Minerva export pipeline inside SKaiNET
• Graph validation and compatibility checks
• Conversion of SKaiNET models into Minerva-compatible NPZ artifacts
• Automated invocation of the Minerva compiler toolchain
• Project packaging for firmware and host-side verification
• Optional host verification workflow

Our understanding of Minerva's security value

We identified Minerva's core security contributions as:

• Encrypted model weights
• Integrity verification
• Output authentication and replay protection
• Runtime tamper/fault detection mechanisms
• PRNG-based activation protection
• Deterministic embedded-friendly execution model

Feedback

The integration worked well overall and the architecture is clean and easy to automate from external tooling.

While integrating, we noticed a few areas where additional documentation could help:

• Long-term API stability expectations
• Recommended key provisioning workflow
• Clarification around current runtime APIs versus legacy examples
• Future roadmap for additional targets and model architectures

Thanks for building an interesting project. We'd be happy to share diagrams, findings, and integration feedback if useful.