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✅ New Article: Policy Load Balancer
Title:
🧭 Policy Load Balancer: Risk Modes, Degradation, and Kill-Switches
🔗 https://huggingface.co/blog/kanaria007/policy-load-balancer
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Summary:
Even if you already have *Jumps* (atomic moves), *RML* (effect glue), *EVAL* (experiments), and *ETH* (hard constraints), a real system still needs one practical answer:
*What operational mode is the system allowed to run in *right now*—for whom, and under which governance?*
This article introduces the *Policy Load Balancer (PoLB)*: a first-class “mode selector” that turns risk signals + ETH/EVAL/ID context into an *active mode descriptor* (risk band, mode name, allowed jump types, allowed RML levels, experiments on/off, engine whitelist), plus *degradation* and *kill-switch* rules.
> PoLB is the goal surface for *how allowed* the system is to act.
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Why It Matters:
• Replaces scattered feature flags with *structured, auditable modes* (and traceable transitions)
• Ensures *nothing effectful runs raw*—every real-world action passes PoLB + RML gates
• Makes incident handling safer: *pre-declared degradation patterns* (experiment-first shutdown, controller simplification, under-observation downgrade)
• Adds real governance: *kill-switch contracts* (who can stop what, how fast, with multi-party auth + full audit)
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What’s Inside:
• A mode taxonomy: *OFFLINE / SHADOW / ONLINE_SAFE / ONLINE_EXPERIMENTAL / EMERGENCY*, mapped to SI-Core’s coarse envelope (
• Example mode catalog (e.g.,
• Transition policies driven by telemetry/alarms/ETH incidents, plus *degrade orders* (risk vs capacity shedding)
• Export-friendly policy conventions
• Kill-switch contract + implementation sketch, and how PoLB interlocks with *OBS / ID / ETH / EVAL / MEM*
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📖 Structured Intelligence Engineering Series
Title:
🧭 Policy Load Balancer: Risk Modes, Degradation, and Kill-Switches
🔗 https://huggingface.co/blog/kanaria007/policy-load-balancer
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Summary:
Even if you already have *Jumps* (atomic moves), *RML* (effect glue), *EVAL* (experiments), and *ETH* (hard constraints), a real system still needs one practical answer:
*What operational mode is the system allowed to run in *right now*—for whom, and under which governance?*
This article introduces the *Policy Load Balancer (PoLB)*: a first-class “mode selector” that turns risk signals + ETH/EVAL/ID context into an *active mode descriptor* (risk band, mode name, allowed jump types, allowed RML levels, experiments on/off, engine whitelist), plus *degradation* and *kill-switch* rules.
> PoLB is the goal surface for *how allowed* the system is to act.
---
Why It Matters:
• Replaces scattered feature flags with *structured, auditable modes* (and traceable transitions)
• Ensures *nothing effectful runs raw*—every real-world action passes PoLB + RML gates
• Makes incident handling safer: *pre-declared degradation patterns* (experiment-first shutdown, controller simplification, under-observation downgrade)
• Adds real governance: *kill-switch contracts* (who can stop what, how fast, with multi-party auth + full audit)
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What’s Inside:
• A mode taxonomy: *OFFLINE / SHADOW / ONLINE_SAFE / ONLINE_EXPERIMENTAL / EMERGENCY*, mapped to SI-Core’s coarse envelope (
sandbox|shadow|online|degraded)• Example mode catalog (e.g.,
OFFLINE_SANDBOX, SHADOW_PROD, ONLINE_SAFE_BASELINE, ONLINE_EXPERIMENTAL_STRATIFIED, EMERGENCY_FAILSAFE)• Transition policies driven by telemetry/alarms/ETH incidents, plus *degrade orders* (risk vs capacity shedding)
• Export-friendly policy conventions
• Kill-switch contract + implementation sketch, and how PoLB interlocks with *OBS / ID / ETH / EVAL / MEM*
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📖 Structured Intelligence Engineering Series