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Engineering standards

Permanent candidate standards across 26 engineering domains, each with normalized control IDs, evidence requirements, and assessment procedures.

Standards
132
Domains
26
Controls and criteria
1,113
Status
Candidate

Assessment doctrine

What every standard carries

Implementation intent, minimum and advanced implementation, evidence requirements, assessment procedures, metrics, exceptions, and compensating controls.

Foundation

The permanent design, editorial, evidence, control, assessment, taxonomy, and QA conventions inherited by every later publication.

Visual language: Control lattices, evidence chains, and assessment matrices.

Network and Security

Network engineering and cybersecurity standards, from topology and source of truth to zero trust and detection.

Visual language: Topology, routing and state graphs, trust zones, packet and control flows, attack paths, enforcement boundaries, and evidence chains.

Software, Platform, and Reliability

Software engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, database and storage, and reliability engineering.

Visual language: Dependency graphs, pipelines, state machines, event streams, service topology, failure propagation, SLOs, and recovery paths.

AI, Knowledge, Data, and Identity

Artificial intelligence, knowledge and grounding, data and evidence, identity, and learning.

Visual language: Model routing lattices, knowledge graphs, provenance flows, identity trust paths, policy gates, and learning loops.

Cloud, Edge, and Physical Systems

Cloud, endpoint, operational technology, telecommunications, hardware, IoT, realtime media, and web runtime.

Visual language: Cloud planes, endpoint trust, OT zones, radio layers, compute fabrics, sensor graphs, media paths, and runtime isolation.

Emerging and Advanced Technology

Emerging technology, quantum technology, and physical AI and robotics.

Visual language: Readiness horizons, quantum state flows, photonic interconnects, spiking graphs, and physical-AI feedback loops.

Governance and Experience

Governance, risk, and compliance, and user experience and human-system interaction.

Visual language: Control maps, decision trees, risk matrices, and interaction flows.

Catalog

All standards

Artificial Intelligence 15

  • MYTHOS-AI-0001

    Agentic Framework Benchmark and Evaluation Standard

    Defines a reproducible benchmark for agent frameworks, including orchestration, memory, tools, safety boundaries, observability, durability, interoperability, and evidence-backed evaluation.

    Standard 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-AI-0002

    Model Intelligence, Training, and Deployment Standard

    Defines model selection, training, evaluation, packaging, deployment, inference, governance, and lifecycle requirements for production AI systems.

    Standard 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-AI-0003

    Applied Natural Language & LLM Evaluation Standard

    Defines evaluation of language-model quality, grounding, reasoning, retrieval, hallucination resistance, multilingual behavior, and task-specific natural-language performance.

    Standard 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-AI-0004

    AI Software Engineer & Code Generation Benchmark Standard

    Defines benchmarks for AI-assisted software engineering, including code generation, repository reasoning, testing, repair, security, and autonomous engineering workflows.

    Standard 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-AI-0005

    Applied Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code Benchmark Standard

    Defines evaluation of AI systems performing infrastructure automation and infrastructure-as-code tasks, emphasizing correctness, safety, rollback, policy, and reproducibility.

    Standard 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-AI-0006

    AI Alignment, Red-Team, & Sycophancy Evaluation Standard

    Defines alignment and adversarial evaluation for AI systems, including red-team methodology, instruction hierarchy, sycophancy, deception, unsafe autonomy, and behavioral assurance.

    Standard 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-AI-0008

    Multimodal Interaction, Vision, & Voice Latency Standard

    Defines latency, synchronization, quality, safety, and evaluation requirements for multimodal AI spanning vision, voice, streaming interaction, and realtime user experience.

    Standard 56 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-AI-0010

    AI Avatar, Persona, & Provenance Standard

    Defines identity, consent, provenance, safety, continuity, and lifecycle requirements for AI personas, avatars, synthetic voices, and persistent user-facing characters.

    Standard 38 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-AI-0013

    AI-Assisted Software Engineering & Model Routing Standard

    Defines AI-assisted engineering workflows and model-routing strategies across planning, coding, review, testing, tool use, escalation, and cost-aware execution.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-AI-0014

    Inference Serving, Quantization & KV-Cache Standard

    Defines production inference serving, quantization, batching, KV-cache management, accelerator utilization, latency, throughput, and quality-preservation requirements.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-AI-0015

    Federated Learning & Privacy-Preserving ML Standard

    Defines federated and privacy-preserving machine learning, including local training, aggregation, differential privacy, secure computation, model leakage, and governance.

    Standard 26 pp PDF

Cloud Engineering 11

  • MYTHOS-CLD-0001

    Multi-Cloud Architecture & Control Plane Standard

    Defines multi-cloud architecture, landing zones, control planes, identity, policy, networking, observability, portability, sovereignty, and cross-cloud governance.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-CLD-0002

    AWS Architecture, Security, & Automation Standard

    Defines AWS architecture, security, automation, identity, networking, observability, resilience, cost governance, and evidence requirements for enterprise workloads.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-CLD-0004

    Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Architecture & Automation Standard

    Defines Google Cloud architecture and automation across organizations, IAM, networking, workload platforms, observability, resilience, and policy enforcement.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-CLD-0005

    Oracle Cloud (OCI) Architecture & Automation Standard

    Defines Oracle Cloud architecture and automation across tenancy, IAM, networking, compute, data services, resilience, security, and operational governance.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-CLD-0006

    Alibaba Cloud Architecture & Automation Standard

    Defines Alibaba Cloud architecture and automation across accounts, identity, networking, compute, security, observability, resilience, and regional considerations.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-CLD-0007

    Kubernetes, Container Orchestration, & Operator Standard

    Defines Kubernetes and container-orchestration architecture, operators, policy, multitenancy, networking, workload identity, supply chain, observability, and lifecycle control.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-CLD-0008

    Serverless Architecture & Event-Driven Compute Standard

    Defines serverless and event-driven compute, including functions, triggers, state, idempotency, security, scaling, observability, portability, and cost behavior.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-CLD-0009

    Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (DePIN) Standard

    Defines decentralized physical infrastructure networks as a compute and infrastructure model, including trust, incentives, workload placement, verification, privacy, and risk.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-CLD-0010

    Private Cloud, Hypervisor & Bare Metal Standard

    Defines private-cloud, hypervisor, and bare-metal architecture across virtualization, isolation, provisioning, storage, networking, lifecycle, resilience, and trusted operation.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-CLD-0011

    Web3 & Decentralized Ledger Architecture Standard

    Defines Web3 and decentralized-ledger architecture, including consensus, keys, smart contracts, off-chain integration, privacy, governance, and operational risk.

    Standard 25 pp PDF

Cybersecurity 17

Data, State, and Evidence 5

  • MYTHOS-DAT-0001

    Vector Database & Local-First Sync Architecture Standard

    Defines vector storage and local-first synchronization for AI and distributed applications, including embeddings, indexing, replication, conflict handling, and offline operation.

    Standard 26 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-DAT-0003

    Data Sovereignty, Privacy Preservation, & Egress Control Standard

    Defines data-sovereignty, privacy-preservation, residency, classification, egress control, minimization, and policy enforcement across local, cloud, and hybrid systems.

    Standard 29 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-DAT-0004

    Event Sourcing, CQRS, & Durable State Machine Standard

    Defines event sourcing, CQRS, durable state machines, replay, idempotency, ordering, reconciliation, and evidence-preserving state transitions.

    Standard 26 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-DAT-0005

    Tamper-Evident Hash-Chained Ledgers & Evidence Bundle Standard

    Defines tamper-evident ledgers and evidence bundles using cryptographic linking, provenance, signatures, retention, verification, and chain-of-custody controls.

    Standard 26 pp PDF

Database and Storage 3

  • MYTHOS-DBS-0001

    Relational, Graph, and Time-Series Database Standard

    Workload-aligned persistence, transactional integrity, graph traversal, time-series operations, and governed polyglot persistence.

    Standard 15 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-DBS-0002

    Storage, Search, and Backup Architecture Standard

    Storage tiering, indexing and search, backup integrity, recovery validation, retention, and evidence-driven data protection.

    Standard 15 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-DBS-0003

    Storage Multi-Tenancy and Data Access Zones Standard

    Tenant isolation, data access zones, authorization boundaries, encryption context, residency, and controlled analytical access.

    Standard 15 pp PDF

Distributed Systems 2

  • MYTHOS-DST-0002

    API Contracts, gRPC, and Service Mesh Standard

    Versioned API contracts, RPC semantics, service-mesh boundaries, compatibility, resilience, and observable service communication.

    Standard 16 pp PDF

Emerging Technology 7

Endpoint Engineering 1

  • MYTHOS-END-0001

    Endpoint OS, Fleet Management & MDM Standard

    Defines managed endpoint architecture across operating systems, configuration baselines, MDM/UEM, patching, application control, identity, telemetry, isolation, and fleet lifecycle.

    Standard 25 pp PDF

Foundation and Governance 10

  • MYTHOS-FND-0001

    Product Definition Standard

    Govern product intent before implementation: evidence, scope, requirements, invariants, risk, and objective acceptance.

    Standard 48 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FND-0002

    Documentation System Standard

    Treat documentation as an engineered authority, evidence, traceability, and lifecycle system.

    Standard 50 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FND-0003

    Security, Privacy, and Trust Standard

    Engineer security, privacy, and trust as system properties with explicit authority, isolation, evidence, and resilience.

    Standard 58 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FND-0004

    Quality, Testing, and Validation Standard

    Turn requirements, hazards, and production behavior into reproducible verification and validation evidence.

    Standard 52 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FND-0005

    Operations, Release, and Lifecycle Standard

    Govern readiness, release, operation, recovery, maintenance, deprecation, and retirement as one lifecycle.

    Standard 51 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FND-0006

    Data, API, and Integration Standard

    Make data meaning, contracts, interfaces, events, lineage, reliability, and compatibility explicit and testable.

    Standard 51 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FND-0007

    Interface Standards

    Design human interfaces that preserve understanding, accessibility, authority, safety, feedback, and recovery.

    Standard 50 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FND-0008

    Extension Ecosystem Standard

    Govern extensions, plugins, publishers, provenance, admission, capabilities, isolation, updates, and revocation.

    Standard 50 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FND-0009

    AI-First Application Standard

    Govern material AI behavior through justified use, impact analysis, evaluation, grounding, human control, and lifecycle evidence.

    Standard 51 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-FND-0010

    Agentic Systems and Model Orchestration Standard

    Bound delegated action with mission contracts, policy, tool controls, memory governance, budgets, evidence, verification, and containment.

    Standard 57 pp PDF

Governance, Risk, and Compliance 2

  • MYTHOS-GRC-0001

    Federal, DoD, and Sovereign Compliance Standard

    Defines governance for federal, defense, sovereign, and regulated environments, including control applicability, evidence, authorization boundaries, supply chain, residency, and compliance traceability.

    Standard 27 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-GRC-0002

    AI Governance, Privacy, and Risk Management Standard

    Defines AI governance, privacy, and risk management across model lifecycle, data use, transparency, human oversight, safety, incident response, accountability, and regulatory alignment.

    Standard 27 pp PDF

Hardware and Trusted Compute 2

  • MYTHOS-HW-0001

    AI GPU Server & Cluster Architecture Standard

    Defines AI GPU server and cluster architecture across accelerators, memory, interconnects, storage, power, cooling, scheduling, observability, reliability, and lifecycle planning.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-HW-0002

    Trusted Compute, DPU & Firmware Standard

    Defines trusted compute, DPUs, firmware, secure boot, attestation, root of trust, hardware isolation, update integrity, and low-level platform assurance.

    Standard 25 pp PDF

Identity and Access 2

  • MYTHOS-ID-0001

    Workload, Agent & Human Identity Standard

    Defines interoperable identity for humans, workloads, agents, and services, including authentication, attestation, delegation, ephemeral credentials, and lifecycle governance.

    Standard 26 pp PDF

IoT and Edge 1

  • MYTHOS-IOT-0001

    IoT, Matter & Edge Sensor Standard

    Defines IoT and edge-sensor architecture across Matter, device identity, onboarding, telemetry, local processing, radio connectivity, update security, privacy, and lifecycle management.

    Standard 25 pp PDF

Knowledge and Grounding 2

  • MYTHOS-KNW-0001

    RAG, Grounding & Source Authority Standard

    Defines retrieval-augmented generation, source authority, grounding, citation, provenance, freshness, conflict resolution, and evidence requirements for knowledge-backed AI.

    Standard 26 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-KNW-0002

    Persona, Avatar & Persistent Memory Architecture Standard

    Defines persistent persona and memory architecture, including memory classes, retention, consent, retrieval, identity continuity, summarization, and user control.

    Standard 26 pp PDF

Learning and Workforce 1

  • MYTHOS-EDU-0001

    Adaptive Learning, Skill Graphs & Cyber Lab Standard

    Defines adaptive learning, skill graphs, labs, cyber ranges, competency evidence, personalized progression, safe simulation, and workforce-assurance measurement.

    Standard 26 pp PDF

Network Engineering 11

Operational Technology 1

  • MYTHOS-OT-0001

    ICS, Critical Infrastructure & OT Segmentation Standard

    Defines secure ICS and critical-infrastructure architecture, emphasizing safety, segmentation, remote access, asset visibility, protocol constraints, monitoring, recovery, and change control.

    Standard 25 pp PDF

Physical AI and Robotics 6

Platform Engineering 6

  • MYTHOS-PLT-0002

    Infrastructure and Configuration as Code Standard

    Declarative desired state, plan review, drift control, provider governance, secret-safe automation, and reversible infrastructure change.

    Standard 16 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-PLT-0005

    Hardware and Software Lifecycle and Refresh Standard

    Lifecycle intelligence, supportability, refresh planning, compatibility management, technical debt, and controlled retirement.

    Standard 16 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-PLT-0006

    Digital Marketplace and Extension Architecture Standard

    Governed extension discovery, trust tiers, package integrity, compatibility, monetization boundaries, and marketplace operations.

    Standard 16 pp PDF

Quantum Technology 6

Realtime Media 1

  • MYTHOS-MED-0001

    Realtime Voice, WebRTC & Synthetic Media Provenance Standard

    Defines realtime voice and WebRTC systems, including signaling, media transport, latency, quality, identity, synthetic-media provenance, recording, privacy, and abuse controls.

    Standard 25 pp PDF

Reliability Engineering 3

Software Engineering 9

Telecommunications 3

  • MYTHOS-TEL-0001

    5G/6G Core, Open RAN & Slicing Standard

    Defines 5G/6G core, Open RAN, slicing, orchestration, identity, transport, telemetry, assurance, and security for programmable telecommunications infrastructure.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-TEL-0002

    Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) & Indoor RF Standard

    Defines distributed antenna systems and indoor RF engineering, including coverage, capacity, spectrum, interference, testing, monitoring, and lifecycle governance.

    Standard 25 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-TEL-0003

    Enterprise Telephony, VoIP & Call Manager Standard

    Defines enterprise telephony and VoIP architecture across call control, SIP, media, emergency calling, QoS, survivability, security, monitoring, and lifecycle management.

    Standard 25 pp PDF

User Experience 4

  • MYTHOS-UX-0001

    AI-Native Interface, High-Density Data, and Accessibility Standard

    Defines AI-native interface design for dense technical systems, including accessibility, information hierarchy, explainability, adaptive interaction, keyboard operation, and human factors.

    Standard 27 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-UX-0002

    Human-in-the-Loop Approval Workflow Standard

    Defines human-in-the-loop approval workflows, including risk-tiered intervention, immutable approval context, delegation, escalation, timeout, revocation, and evidence of consent.

    Standard 27 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-UX-0003

    Cyberpunk-Noir Aesthetic and Visual State Standard

    Defines the Mythos cyberpunk-noir visual system as a controlled design language for state, hierarchy, contrast, motion, density, legibility, and accessibility rather than decoration alone.

    Standard 27 pp PDF
  • MYTHOS-UX-0004

    Spatial Computing and WebGPU/wgpu Integration Standard

    Defines spatial-computing and WebGPU/wgpu integration for immersive technical interfaces, including rendering, interaction, accessibility, performance, data visualization, and device fallback.

    Standard 28 pp PDF

Web Runtime 1

  • MYTHOS-WEB-0001

    WebGPU, WebLLM & Browser Isolation Standard

    Defines secure browser compute using WebGPU and browser-local AI, including isolation, model execution, data boundaries, capability control, performance, privacy, and fallback behavior.

    Standard 25 pp PDF

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