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Vienna OS — Governance Kernel for Autonomous AI Operations with Signed Warrants

SYSTEM_STATUS: OPERATIONAL

Infrastructure-grade execution control plane. Issue cryptographic warrants for AI agent operations. Immutable audit trails. Zero-trust authorization.

GENERATE_WARRANT →VIEW_SPEC
target_p99
<50ms
audit_algo
SHA-256
arch_model
ZeroTrust
Pricing Tier
$0/mo — community edition (5 agents)
view_full_pricing →
EXECUTION_WARRANT
ep_id: EP-OPS-3C19
warrant_serial
WRT-7F3A-82B1-4D9E
auth_status
VERIFIED
risk_tier
T2 (HUMAN_GATE)
issued_at
2026-04-07T14:02:44Z
principal_agent
AGENT_SIGMA_V4
action_scope
DB_SCHEMA_MIGRATION
authorized_by
S. CHEN (VP ENG)
target_env
PRODUCTION_CLUSTER_01
ttl_remaining: 298s● ACTIVE
ai.ventures30+ AI products
risk-ai/regulatoraiOpen Source
BSL-1.1
94+
proposals evaluated
75+
warrants issued
252+
audit events logged
10+
active policies

EXECUTION_PIPELINE

intent → policy → risk tier → proposal → approval → warrant → execute → audit

INTENT_SUBMIT[1/8]
Agent declares intended action
agent → API
✓ DONE
POLICY_EVAL[2/8]
Engine evaluates against policies
11 operators
✓ DONE
RISK_TIER_ROUTE[3/8]
Classify T0-T3, route accordingly
auto | gate | halt
✓ DONE
PROPOSAL_CREATE[4/8]
Generate proposal for approvers
quorum defined
✓ DONE
APPROVAL_GATE[5/8]
Human or policy approves / denies
M-of-N quorum
✓ DONE
WARRANT_ISSUE[6/8]
Cryptographic warrant signed
SHA-256 + TTL
✓ DONE
EXECUTION[7/8]
Agent executes with warrant authority
scoped + bounded
✓ DONE
AUDIT_CHAIN[8/8]
Immutable record written to ledger
HMAC-signed
✓ DONE
FULL_PIPELINE_FLOW
Intent → Policy Eval → Risk Tier → Proposal → Approval → Warrant → Execution → Audit Chain

SYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE

infrastructure-grade governance — every layer purpose-built for autonomous AI operations

ARCHITECTURE_OVERVIEWhover layers for details
Agent AAgent BAgent N→ submit intents via SDK
Python, Node.js, GitHub Actions, Terraform — any agent submits structured intents
│ REST / WebSocket / SSE │
auth: API key + JWT
rate_limit: per-tenant
protocol: REST + SSE streaming
Multi-tenant isolation, scoped API keys, real-time event streaming for approval workflows
▼
POLICY_ENGINE
11 operators, priority-ordered eval
latency: <50ms p99
RISK_ROUTER
T0-T3 classification, auto-route
auto | gate | halt
WARRANT_AUTHORITY
HMAC-SHA256 signed, TTL-bounded
scope-restricted
▼
●M-of-N approval quorum
●Scoped warrant execution
●Anomaly detection + alerting
●HMAC-signed immutable audit log
PostgreSQL (Neon) data layer with configurable retention, dead letter queue, real-time SSE events
DEPLOY_CLOUD
Vercel + Neon — serverless, zero-ops
DEPLOY_SELF_HOST
Docker Compose — your infra, your data
DEPLOY_HYBRID
Cloud control + on-prem execution
COMPLIANCE_READY
SOC2GDPRISO27001HIPAA
audit trail → compliance mapping

RISK_TIER_MATRIX

classify → route → enforce → verify

T0
AUTO_APPROVE
latency: <5ms
scope: read_only
audit: log_only
T1
POLICY_GATE
max_ttl: 1h
scope: staging
approval: heuristic
T2
HUMAN_GATE
max_ttl: 30m
targets: prod (write)
mode: break-glass
T3
STRICT_HALT
quorum: 3-of-5
scope: destructive
rollback: mandatory

DEPLOYMENTS + USE_CASES

real production deployments — devops | compliance | executive

DEPLOYMENT_CASE_STUDYproduction since 2026-03
org
ai.ventures
governed_agents
20+
products
30+ AI sites
key_deployment
law.ai
"We run 20+ autonomous agents across our portfolio — law.ai, biography.ai, corporate.ai, and dozens more. Before Vienna OS, an agent deployed a breaking schema migration to production at 3 AM with zero approval. That can't happen anymore. Every prod write requires a T2 warrant with human sign-off."
WA
Whit Anderson
CEO, ai.ventures
DEVOPS_LEAD
role: infrastructure automation
challenge: agents deploy prod w/o oversight
solution: T2 gate on prod writes
result: 0 unauthorized deployments
law.ai — legal research agents, doc analysis
COMPLIANCE_OFFICER
role: regulatory audit
challenge: no audit trail for AI decisions
solution: SHA-256 signed warrants
result: audit-ready in weeks, not months
biography.ai — content gen, media processing
CTO
role: technical strategy
challenge: scale agents w/o losing control
solution: policy-based auto-approval
result: govern at scale, not at the expense of speed
corporate.ai — vendor scoring, marketplace ops

SDK_INSTALLATION

npm | pip | github-actions | terraform

INSTALLnpm | pip
$ npm install @vienna-os/sdk
$ pip install vienna-os
USAGE_EXAMPLEnode.js
import { ViennaClient } from '@vienna-os/sdk';

const vienna = new ViennaClient({
  apiKey: process.env.VIENNA_API_KEY
});

// Submit intent — Vienna evaluates policy,
// routes by risk tier, gates if needed
const result = await vienna.intent.submit({
  action: 'deploy_production',
  agent:  'deploy-bot-v3',
  payload: { service: 'api-gateway' }
});

if (result.warrant) {
  // Warrant issued — execute with authority
  await deployService(result.warrant.id);
  await vienna.execution.complete(
    result.warrant.id,
    { status: 'success' }
  );
}
full integration guide →
FRAMEWORK_SUPPORT
GitHub Actions
Terraform
LangChain
CrewAI
PYTHON3 lines to govern
from vienna_os import ViennaClient

vienna = ViennaClient(api_key=os.environ["VIENNA_API_KEY"])

result = vienna.intent.submit(
    action="db_migration",
    agent="migration-bot",
    payload={"target": "production"}
)

BEFORE_AFTER

real incident at ai.ventures — before and after Vienna OS deployment

BEFORE_VIENNA_OSai.ventures — pre-March 2026
incident:
03:14 - agent deploys schema migration to prod
03:15 - site goes down — breaking change
03:47 - team paged, investigation begins
04:23 - manual rollback initiated
04:58 - service restored
downtime: 104 minutes
approval: none — agent acted autonomously
audit_trail: no record of who authorized
WITH_VIENNA_OSai.ventures — since March 2026
same scenario, governed:
10:22 - agent requests prod migration
10:22 - Vienna policy eval → T2 HUMAN_GATE
10:26 - engineer reviews + approves warrant
10:27 - migration executes with warrant authority
10:29 - success, SHA-256 audit record written
downtime: 0 — human reviewed first
approval: warrant-signed, time-bounded
audit_trail: cryptographic, immutable
100%
unauthorized deploys blocked
4min
avg_approval_time
$0
incident_cost (governed)

PROTOCOL_SPEC

open_warrant_standard v1.0

<50ms
target_p99_latency
sub-second policy eval
no governance bottleneck
SHA-256
audit_hash
cryptographic signatures
tamper-evident trail
hash-chain integrity
0-Trust
arch_model
explicit authorization
no implicit grants
no ambient authority

POLICY_SIMULATOR

try it yourself — submit an intent, watch the governance pipeline evaluate in real time

POLICY_SIMULATOR
interactive demo
ACTION_TYPE
TARGET_ENV
AGENT_IDENTITY
PREDICTED_RISK_TIER
T2HUMAN_GATE
EVAL_OUTPUT○ READY
INTENT
POLICY
RISK
ROUTE
// select parameters and click SUBMIT_INTENT to begin simulation
DEPLOY_GOVERNANCE

$ vienna-os init --tier production

integrate warrant protocol into agentic infrastructure (python | node | rust)

GENERATE_WARRANT →QUICKSTART_GUIDE
community_tier: 5 agents, full pipelinesetup_time: <5min
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