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Conscience

Conscience is the policy engine and governance layer. It defines what your agents are allowed to do, records what they did, and emits tamper-evident receipts every paid op can be audited against.

Note

Included in: Starter, Pro, Team, Enterprise. Renders under /conscience in Midcore Shell and the web dashboard.

What Conscience does

  • Declarative policy packs — tenant-scoped rule sets that gate egress, execution, identity, and data movement. SYSTEM_RULES always load first; tenant policies layer on top.
  • Fail-closed gates — if no policy explicitly allows an action, it’s denied. Every denial emits an audit row with the rule id.
  • Hash-chained receipts — every cloud op produces a receipt linked to the prior one. Tamper detection is offline-verifiable.
  • Jurisdictional templates — pre-built packs for GDPR, HIPAA, PIPEDA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and Canadian + US tax-handling.

When to reach for Conscience

  • You need an auditable record of who-did-what-when on AI actions.
  • You operate in a regulated industry and need pre-built policy templates.
  • You want to constrain agent behaviour (no egress to X, no shell exec, etc.) declaratively.

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