Adversarial-Resistant Ground-truth ObservatioN - Verification
Current phase: Active development with protocol hardening (v0.1).
This repository serves as the canonical home for the ARGON-V protocol. Development is actively underway, with parallel progress on implementation and formalization. Current work focuses on refining protocol invariants, expanding threat-surface coverage, and validating design assumptions against realistic adversarial models.
Note
While core protocol mechanics are implemented, certain components remain under iterative refinement as security assumptions and edge cases are stress-tested. Interfaces and internal representations may evolve prior to the v0.1 stabilization milestone.
ARGON-V does not attempt to provide a mathematical guarantee of absolute truth, which is formally impossible in an unmanaged client environment. Instead, it enforces economic cost asymmetry.
By requiring simultaneous multi-surface semantic consistency—tied to ephemeral, server-issued challenges—the protocol raises the complexity and labor cost of a successful forgery beyond the expected utility of the exploit. In effect, ARGON-V transforms a data manipulation problem into a coherent narrative forgery problem, which is significantly harder to automate and sustain.
The ARGON-V pipeline enforces three primary safety properties:
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Temporal Freshness
Observations are cryptographically bound to an ephemeral, high-entropy nonce to prevent replay and pre-computed state injection. -
Semantic Coherence
Facts are extracted from multiple independent observation surfaces. Verification requires that all surfaces maintain logical consistency (e.g., a dashboard total must equal the sum of its ledger entries). -
Deterministic Canonicalization
Raw DOM artifacts are mapped into a strictly typed, server-authoritative schema, neutralizing client-side heuristic manipulation and UI noise.
apps/server— Authoritative verification and Merkle-commitment engine.apps/client— Core client suite, including the testing DOM (mock-pass,mock-fail) and the browser extension for server interaction and verification.docs/theory— Systems analysis and economic-security reasoning. Includes the research paper.
- Active Development: Real-time server and client progress is visible on the
developbranch. - Theory & Research: The current protocol draft and threat model are documented in the research-paper-v0.1.pdf.
Readers interested in implementation progress, design decisions, or protocol mechanics are encouraged to consult the develop branch and accompanying theory documentation.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.