Law Latency Harness

Legal judgment before the workflow moves.

A spinal-reflex layer for MARIA OS: deterministic circuits run before slow review, model calls, database writes, or external execution. Reflex ALLOW only means System 1 has no objection; System 2 can still tighten the route.

Policy

system1-v1

Budget

7ms

Observed

0.00ms

Current verdict

DENY_HARD_STOPG1.U2.P1.Z1.A2 DENY_HARD_STOP hard_stop: LLR-01,LLR-02,LLR-05
Reflex budget use2.0%

LLR-01 Authority Boundary Reflex

Required capability is outside the agent grant set.

DENY_HARD_STOP

LLR-02 Irreversibility x Consent Reflex

Irreversible external action lacks consent or evidence.

DENY_HARD_STOP

LLR-03 Local Loop Reflex

Local episode counters are inside reflex loop budget.

ALLOW

LLR-04 Prohibited Pattern Reflex

No prohibited structure or unsafe-intent signal matched.

ALLOW

LLR-05 Stakes & Identity Reflex

Protected subject, high stakes, or counsel-tier exposure exceeds machine authority.

ESCALATE_COUNSEL

Five reflex circuits

Five implemented Law Latency designs

LLR-011ms

Authority Boundary Reflex

Stops immediately when a required capability is outside the agent granted set, or when an admin, write, or gate escalation pattern appears.

Evaluates only set membership between requiredCapabilities and grantedCapabilities. It performs no I/O, model calls, or database reads.

LLR-021ms

Irreversibility x Consent Reflex

Blocks irreversible and externally visible side effects such as delete, send, publish, charge, or export when consent or evidence is missing.

Folds a static action type table, externalVisibility, consent confirmation, and evidenceIds through an AND check.

LLR-031ms

Local Loop Reflex

Looks only at retries, corrections, and failed gates inside the current episode to stop obvious local thrashing.

Keeps cross-run history and authoritative loop budgets in the slow path, while the reflex checks local counters only.

LLR-042ms

Prohibited Pattern Reflex

Stops unsafe intent, self-modification of harnesses, gates, or policies, and attempts to bypass consent or gates.

Evaluates structural target matches and denylist membership from a versioned policy. Semantic review remains in the slow path.

LLR-052ms

Stakes & Identity Reflex

Quickly identifies protected subjects, unverified identity, high stakes, and above-threshold actions as outside machine-only judgment.

Uses static table checks for subjectClass, stakes tier, identityVerified, and amountUsd to return ESCALATE_COUNSEL or REQUIRE_APPROVAL.

Stimulus

Reflex input

Data classes

Route

hard_stop

G1.U2.P1.Z1.A2 DENY_HARD_STOP hard_stop: LLR-01,LLR-02,LLR-05

Required evidence

authority_grant_recordconsent_recordexecution_evidenceidentity_proofhuman_judgment_record

Authority Boundary Reflex

DENY_HARD_STOP

Required capability is outside the agent grant set.

export:data

Irreversibility x Consent Reflex

DENY_HARD_STOP

Irreversible external action lacks consent or evidence.

irreversibleexternal_visibilityconsent_missingevidence_missing

Stakes & Identity Reflex

ESCALATE_COUNSEL

Protected subject, high stakes, or counsel-tier exposure exceeds machine authority.

stakes=highsubject=citizenidentity_unverifiedamount_usd=180000