Adversarial-Resistant Ground-truth ObservatioN - Verification
Protocol Design Draft (v0.1)
ARGON-V is a systems protocol for establishing high-confidence web observations in adversarial environments. Unlike traditional verification methods that assume a trusted execution environment or platform cooperation, ARGON-V explicitly assumes an untrusted client and a non-cooperative platform.
At this stage, the repository documents the protocol design, threat model, security rationale, and system architecture. A working reference implementation exists but is not yet open-sourced while the specification and invariant model are finalized.
ARGON-V does not attempt to provide a mathematical guarantee of absolute truth, which is formally impossible in an unmanaged client environment. Instead, it enforces economic cost asymmetry.
By requiring simultaneous multi-surface semantic consistency—tied to ephemeral, server-issued challenges—the protocol raises the complexity and labor cost of a successful forgery beyond the expected utility of the exploit. In effect, ARGON-V transforms a data manipulation problem into a coherent narrative forgery problem, which is significantly harder to automate and sustain.
The ARGON-V pipeline enforces three primary safety properties:
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Temporal Freshness
Observations are cryptographically bound to an ephemeral, high-entropy nonce to prevent replay and pre-computed state injection. -
Semantic Coherence
Facts are extracted from multiple independent observation surfaces. Verification requires that all surfaces maintain logical consistency (e.g., a dashboard total must equal the sum of its ledger entries). -
Deterministic Canonicalization
Raw DOM artifacts are mapped into a strictly typed, server-authoritative schema, neutralizing client-side heuristic manipulation and UI noise.
packages/core— Formal logic for invariant checking and pipeline state transitionspackages/providers— Interfaces for site-specific semantic extractionpackages/extension— Reference browser-based observation agentapps/server— Authoritative verification and Merkle-commitment enginedocs/theory— Systems analysis and economic-security reasoning
Current phase: Specification and threat-surface finalization.
This repository serves as a structural and conceptual blueprint. Development is currently focused on freezing the v0.1 protocol specification and invariant model. Public implementation will follow once the security surface is sufficiently stabilized.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.