# Upgrades — Feature Additions

The 15 feature upgrades to Kova's trust infrastructure.

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## Upgrade 1: External Attestation

**Idea:** Counterparties independently verify agent interactions. Agents can't lie about what happened because the other side has a signed record too.

**Package:** `@nobulex/attestation` — External attestation reconciliation

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## Upgrade 2: Dominant-Strategy Honesty

**Idea:** Mathematical framework proving honest behavior is a Nash equilibrium. Not a claim — a computable inequality with tunable parameters.

**Package:** `@nobulex/gametheory` — Game-theoretic honesty proofs and incentive analysis

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## Upgrade 3: Trust Composability

**Idea:** Prove properties of entire agent networks, not just individuals. If A→B→C each have covenants, derive what's provable about the system.

**Package:** `@nobulex/composition` — Formal constraint composition and verification

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## Upgrade 4: Challenge-Response Canaries

**Idea:** Actively test covenant boundaries with synthetic challenges. Don't wait for breach — hunt for it.

**Package:** `@nobulex/canary` — Canary testing framework for constraint validation

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## Upgrade 5: Antifragile Trust Networks

**Idea:** Breaches generate constraint antibodies that harden the network. The system gets stronger from every attack.

**Package:** `@nobulex/antifragile` — Breach-to-improvement antifragility engine

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## Upgrade 6: Covenant Negotiation

**Idea:** Agents negotiate behavioral commitments in real time like TLS handshakes. Strangers establish verified trust in under 100ms.

**Package:** `@nobulex/negotiation` — Multi-party covenant negotiation sessions

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## Upgrade 7: Behavioral Derivatives

**Idea:** Financial instruments built on verifiable behavioral data. Insurance, futures, hedging on agent reliability.

**Package:** `@nobulex/derivatives` — Trust futures, insurance & derivative instruments

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## Upgrade 8: Proof of Accountability

**Idea:** Consensus mechanism where rational self-interest forces accountability adoption without central mandate.

**Package:** `@nobulex/consensus` — Accountability-based consensus protocol

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## Upgrade 9: Accountability as Alignment

**Idea:** Reframe alignment as a protocol problem, not a training problem. Map alignment properties to enforceable CCL constraints.

**Package:** `@nobulex/alignment` — AI alignment property verification

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## Upgrade 10: Agent Legal Personhood Infrastructure

**Idea:** Evidentiary packages for courts, regulators, and insurers to treat agents as accountable entities.

**Package:** `@nobulex/legal` — Legal identity packages, compliance mapping, audit trails

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## Upgrade 11: Adversarial Robustness Proofs

**Idea:** Fuzz testing and boundary analysis to find covenant vulnerabilities before attackers do.

**Package:** `@nobulex/robustness` — Formal robustness and coverage analysis

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## Upgrade 12: Cross-Substrate Accountability

**Idea:** Extend beyond AI to robots, IoT, vehicles, drones, smart contracts. Universal accountability for all autonomous systems.

**Package:** `@nobulex/substrate` — Cross-substrate constraint translation

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## Upgrade 13: Temporal Covenant Evolution

**Idea:** Covenants evolve algorithmically when capabilities change. Triggers fire, constraints adapt, everything is logged.

**Package:** `@nobulex/temporal` — Temporal evolution, triggers & scheduled transitions

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## Upgrade 14: Recursive Accountability

**Idea:** The accountability system is accountable to itself. Monitors have covenants. Recursion terminates at cryptographic hardness.

**Package:** `@nobulex/recursive` — Meta-covenants and recursive verification

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## Upgrade 15: Emergent Norm Discovery

**Idea:** Protocol learns what behavioral norms should be from network-wide patterns and proposes them through governance.

**Package:** `@nobulex/norms` — Emergent norm discovery from behavioral patterns

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## Summary

| # | Upgrade | Package |
|---|---------|---------|
| 1 | External attestation | @nobulex/attestation |
| 2 | Dominant-strategy honesty | @nobulex/gametheory |
| 3 | Trust composability | @nobulex/composition |
| 4 | Challenge-response canaries | @nobulex/canary |
| 5 | Antifragile trust networks | @nobulex/antifragile |
| 6 | Covenant negotiation | @nobulex/negotiation |
| 7 | Behavioral derivatives | @nobulex/derivatives |
| 8 | Proof of accountability | @nobulex/consensus |
| 9 | Accountability as alignment | @nobulex/alignment |
| 10 | Agent legal personhood | @nobulex/legal |
| 11 | Adversarial robustness | @nobulex/robustness |
| 12 | Cross-substrate accountability | @nobulex/substrate |
| 13 | Temporal covenant evolution | @nobulex/temporal |
| 14 | Recursive accountability | @nobulex/recursive |
| 15 | Emergent norm discovery | @nobulex/norms |
