Product Definition Standard
Govern product intent before implementation: evidence, scope, requirements, invariants, risk, and objective acceptance.
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Foundation and Governance
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.
- Standards
- 10
- Pages
- 518
- Controls and criteria
- 187
- Companions
- 2
MYTHOS-FND
Foundation and Governance standards
10 of 10
MYTHOS-FND-0001 MYTHOS-FND-0002 Documentation System Standard
Treat documentation as an engineered authority, evidence, traceability, and lifecycle system.
MYTHOS-FND-0003 Security, Privacy, and Trust Standard
Engineer security, privacy, and trust as system properties with explicit authority, isolation, evidence, and resilience.
MYTHOS-FND-0004 Quality, Testing, and Validation Standard
Turn requirements, hazards, and production behavior into reproducible verification and validation evidence.
MYTHOS-FND-0005 Operations, Release, and Lifecycle Standard
Govern readiness, release, operation, recovery, maintenance, deprecation, and retirement as one lifecycle.
MYTHOS-FND-0006 Data, API, and Integration Standard
Make data meaning, contracts, interfaces, events, lineage, reliability, and compatibility explicit and testable.
MYTHOS-FND-0007 Interface Standards
Design human interfaces that preserve understanding, accessibility, authority, safety, feedback, and recovery.
MYTHOS-FND-0008 Extension Ecosystem Standard
Govern extensions, plugins, publishers, provenance, admission, capabilities, isolation, updates, and revocation.
MYTHOS-FND-0009 AI-First Application Standard
Govern material AI behavior through justified use, impact analysis, evaluation, grounding, human control, and lifecycle evidence.
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.
Companions
Guides and portfolios for this series
Field guides, living guides, and portfolio editions that decompose or consolidate the MYTHOS-FND standards.
MYTHOS-FND-PORT-0001 Foundation Standards Portfolio
Complete combined edition containing the executive synthesis and all ten Foundation standards.
MYTHOS-FND-EXEC-0001 Foundation Standards Executive Synthesis
Executive synthesis of the ten permanent Foundation standards and their shared institutional doctrine.
Candidate status describes publication review state. It does not establish certification, legal compliance, implementation conformance, benchmark reproduction, or product readiness.