cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite the SZL Holdings research thesis (Ouroboros Thesis v18) and reference this component."
title: "a11oy — Governed agentic execution fabric. Policy gates, signal mesh, proof ledger, and human review checkpoints across all domain verticals."
version: "1.0.1"
date-released: "2026-05-29"
abstract: >-
  Governed agentic execution fabric. Policy gates, signal mesh, proof ledger, and human review checkpoints across all domain verticals. Component of the SZL Holdings governed AI decision infrastructure,
  built on the Ouroboros Thesis v18.0 (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20434276) and the Lean proof substrate (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20434308).
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Lutar
    given-names: "Stephen P."
    name-suffix: "Jr."

    email: stephen@szlholdings.com
    affiliation: SZL Holdings
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0110-4173"
license: LicenseRef-SZL-Proprietary
url: "https://github.com/szl-holdings/a11oy"
repository-code: "https://github.com/szl-holdings/a11oy"
keywords:
  - szl-holdings
  - ai-governance
  - decision-intelligence
  - ouroboros-thesis
identifiers:
  - description: "Ouroboros Thesis v18 — research foundation (Zenodo)"
    type: doi
    value: "10.5281/zenodo.20434276"
  - description: "Ouroboros Thesis concept DOI — always-latest"
    type: doi
    value: "10.5281/zenodo.19944926"
  - description: "ORCID iD of the principal author"
    type: other
    value: "https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0110-4173"
preferred-citation:
  type: software
  title: "a11oy — Governed agentic execution fabric. Policy gates, signal mesh, proof ledger, and human review checkpoints across all domain verticals."
  authors:
    - family-names: Lutar
      given-names: "Stephen P."
      name-suffix: "Jr."

      email: stephen@szlholdings.com
      affiliation: SZL Holdings
      orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0110-4173"
  year: 2026
  url: "https://github.com/szl-holdings/a11oy"
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    volume: 2
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    notes: "Cited at web/packages/a11oy-core/src/governance/quaternion-state.ts (Hamilton product, quaternion algebra). JSTOR 20520177."
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    notes: "Cited at web/packages/a11oy-core/src/governance/quaternion-state.ts (SLERP)."
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    title: "Quaternion Convolutional Neural Networks for Detection and Localization of 3D Sound Events"
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doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20434276