Constitutional Memory (BlackVault™) Layers 0–2

Constitutional Memory (BlackVault™) v1.2 is registered as the built-and-tested Layers 0–2 portion of a six-layer architecture stewarded by Constitutional Memory SA Ltd. The filing describes tamper-evident sealed records, append-only preservation, identity-provider-based authority-scope checking, and custody logging for read and retrieval events. Layers 3–5 are declared as specified but not built.

Constitutional Memory SA Ltd is the declared owner and stewarding organization for BlackVault™. Greg Malpass, Founder & CEO, is identified as accountable steward for the registered baseline and future supersession filings. The Registry preserves that declaration without adjudicating ownership, priority, or legal sufficiency.

BlackVault™ is building a persistent-memory governance substrate intended to preserve what an AI system retained at a consequential moment, the configured authority context associated with that retention, and a tamper-evident custody history. Its registered Layers 0–2 focus on substrate capture, credential-scope validation against a configured identity provider, and read/retrieval custody. The later inference, execution-boundary, and reporting layers remain outside the built claim.

The registered baseline declares that Layers 0–2 are built and internally tested; that sealed Layer 0 records are append-only and hash-chained; that Layer 1 authenticates a principal and checks requested action scope against a configured identity provider; and that Layer 2 chains and signs access events. The filing reports 172 automated tests, including 60/60 SDK tests, while expressly stating that these results are self-reported and not independently verified.

TA-14 is paying attention because durable memory, provenance, custody, and authority-context preservation sit upstream of any later claim that an AI decision or action can be reconstructed, challenged, or admitted as evidence. BlackVault™ also preserves an important boundary: authenticated scope is not the same thing as proof that authority was validly granted at its original source, and governed memory is not itself consequence-bearing execution governance.

Registration establishes a dated, attributable, version-bound public baseline for Constitutional Memory (BlackVault™) v1.2 under TA-14-AIGR-000024. It preserves the submitted architecture, declared built boundary, self-reported tests, non-claims, limitations, evidence route, and stewardship. Registration is not certification, independent technical validation, security approval, regulatory compliance, endorsement, or proof of production readiness.

The public baseline includes a public SSRN evidence route and a submitted PDF associated with the registered architecture. Future governed work may test specific claims around append-only behavior, cryptographic chain integrity, credential-scope handling, custody logging, authority-source validity, adversarial resilience, and the eventual transition from governed memory into inference or execution layers. Any such work must remain tied to the exact version, test fixture, evidence state, and claim examined.

TA-14 currently classifies BlackVault™ as a governed-memory and evidence-substrate architecture rather than a full admissible-execution architecture. Its filing is comparatively disciplined about this boundary: it does not claim to originate authority, adjudicate authority disputes, establish admissibility by itself, or govern consequence-bearing execution. The strongest next evidence would be independently inspectable implementation proof for Layers 0–2 and a bounded demonstration of the unresolved authority-source boundary.