# Chapter 2: Core Architecture

Aegis-Graph is built on a sovereign, decentralized backbone. It moves away from centralized database queries and towards dynamic reasoning.

### 2.1 The Sovereignty Principle
Data is audited locally. Only anonymized metadata hashes are shared across the node federation.

### 2.2 System Components
- **Core Engine**: Orchestrates the agent swarm.
- **Institutional Knowledge Node**: The private data source for each university.