Phase G – Application Layer

Versions: v0.22.0 – v0.25.0 Question: Can the trust fabric be made legible to non-protocol buyers — through applications, demos, and a visible graph explorer?

What Changed

Two independently-keyed Network Authorities recognized each other through a signed treaty and propagated a revocation across that boundary, demonstrating that the cross-sovereign mechanics work with genuinely independent operators.

A fleet CLI gave operators managing many Network Authorities a dedicated command surface: fleet bootstrap, fleet status, fleet federate, fleet revoke. The edge-fleet example showed a multi-sovereign operational scenario where nodes at different locations federate with a hub sovereign.

TrustDecision evaluated the recognition path between two sovereigns and produced a structured verdict (allow, warn, escalate, block) with reason codes. TrustEvidence packaged the verdict as a signed artifact — the first Genesis Mesh record that makes a trust assertion portable and offline-verifiable beyond the NA that produced it. A second sovereign can verify the evidence without calling the first sovereign’s NA.

The Trust Atlas made TrustEvidence records navigable: sovereigns as nodes, recognition relationships as edges, treaty scope visible on hover, TrustEvidence overlay showing verdict and digest binding. It exists as a live console page and as a static snapshot. It does not rank sovereigns; it surfaces what the signed protocol state already says.

Value Added

  • The trust fabric is useful to people who do not read RFCs.

  • Trust decisions are portable, signed, and offline-verifiable — they can be shared between parties without a live NA call.

  • A fleet of independently-keyed sovereigns can be managed through a single CLI surface.

  • The recognition graph is navigable visually through the Atlas.

What Became Possible

With a legible application layer and portable trust evidence, the full trust architecture could be built. Phase H constructed the complete pipeline from relationship agreement through execution evidence with machine-checked security properties.

Key Releases

Version

Milestone

v0.22.0

Cross-sovereign pattern demonstration: two independently-keyed NAs

v0.23.0

Fleet Operations CLI: bootstrap, status, federate, revoke; edge-fleet example

v0.24.0

TrustDecision + TrustEvidence: signed, offline-verifiable trust assertions

v0.25.0

Trust Atlas MVP: live graph explorer and static snapshot