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NeuraTrust
Intelligence with Integrity
NeuraTrust is an open-source, modular platform for building human-accountable, transparent, auditable, and policy-governed AI systems. Designed with security, privacy, compliance, and governance at its core, NeuraTrust ensures that AI remains under meaningful human oversight while providing organizations with a scalable foundation for deploying trustworthy intelligent systems.
Rather than replacing human decision-making, NeuraTrust augments it. AI models generate recommendations, analyze risk, explain their reasoning, and simulate outcomes, while humans retain final authority over critical decisions. Every action is governed by policy, recorded in immutable audit trails, and subject to continuous monitoring and verification.
NeuraTrust is built using a modular architecture that allows every major subsystem to be independently deployed, upgraded, replaced, or extended without affecting the rest of the platform. Whether deployed by individuals, enterprises, financial institutions, research organizations, or governments, NeuraTrust provides the building blocks for responsible AI systems that prioritize accountability, transparency, and integrity.
Philosophy
AI Proposes. Humans Approve. Systems Enforce. Governance Controls. Audits Verify.
NeuraTrust is founded on the belief that intelligence without accountability is insufficient for high-trust environments. Every recommendation, approval, execution, and policy decision should be explainable, auditable, and attributable.
Core Principles
- Human Accountability
- Transparency by Default
- Security by Design
- Privacy by Default
- Policy Before Automation
- Explainable Intelligence
- Ethical AI
- Modular Architecture
- Zero Vendor Lock-In
- Open Standards
- Verifiable Governance
- Continuous Compliance
- Extensible Platform
Core Features
Human Oversight
- Human approval gateway
- Multi-level approval workflows
- Multi-signature approvals
- Human override controls
- Approval escalation
- Delegated approvals
- Approval audit history
- Separation of duties
- Role-based decision authority
AI Intelligence
- AI recommendation engine
- Multi-model AI support
- AI orchestration
- Multi-agent collaboration
- Self-reflection engine
- Multi-model consensus
- Confidence scoring
- Explainability engine
- Evidence-based recommendations
- Decision provenance
- Goal verification
- Intent validation
- Long-term impact simulation
- Cost-of-decision analysis
- Decision minimalism engine
Governance
- Governance engine
- Machine-readable constitution
- Governance policies
- Governance workflows
- Policy engine
- Policy-as-Code
- Policy versioning
- Rule enforcement
- Ethical governance
- Governance dashboards
- Governance analytics
- Governance simulation
Audit & Accountability
- Immutable audit ledger
- Cryptographic audit records
- Financial flight recorder
- Audit API
- Meta-audit system
- Decision replay
- Chain of custody
- Event history
- Audit exports
- Independent verification
Security
- Zero Trust architecture
- Authentication framework
- Authorization framework
- RBAC
- ABAC
- Multi-factor authentication
- Hardware-backed security
- Trusted execution environments
- Secure key management
- Secret management
- Runtime integrity verification
- Supply chain security
- Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
- Secure update framework
- Signed modules
- Signed releases
- Tamper detection
- Memory integrity validation
- Adversarial AI defense
- Threat detection
- Intrusion detection
- Security monitoring
- Security auditing
Privacy Framework
Privacy Core
- Privacy engine
- Privacy policy enforcement
- Data classification
- Privacy audit logging
- Privacy configuration profiles
Data Governance
- Data lifecycle management
- Data minimization
- Data retention policies
- Secure deletion
- Data residency management
- Cross-border data controls
Consent Management
- Consent collection
- Consent versioning
- Consent withdrawal
- Purpose limitation
- Privacy preference management
Privacy Protection
- Differential privacy
- Data anonymization
- Data pseudonymization
- Tokenization
- Field-level encryption
- Privacy-preserving analytics
Identity Privacy
- Selective disclosure
- Anonymous credentials
- Privacy-aware authentication
- Identity separation
Privacy Rights
- Right to Access
- Right to Correction
- Right to Deletion
- Data portability
- Consent reporting
Compliance Framework
Compliance Core
- Compliance engine
- Compliance monitoring
- Compliance rule execution
- Continuous compliance
- Evidence collection
Compliance Modules
- Financial compliance
- Government compliance
- Healthcare compliance
- Corporate governance
- Organizational policy modules
- Industry-specific compliance packs
Compliance Automation
- Automated reporting
- Gap analysis
- Compliance scoring
- Exception management
- Compliance dashboards
Evidence Management
- Digital evidence
- Chain of custody
- Evidence signing
- Evidence retention
- Evidence verification
Compliance Workflows
- Approval workflows
- Review workflows
- Regulatory notifications
- Exception approvals
Risk Management
- Risk engine
- Legal analysis
- Ethical analysis
- Risk scoring
- Threat modeling
- Economic safeguards
- Loss prevention
- Exposure limits
- Controlled friction
- Trust decay monitoring
- Behavioral monitoring
- Reputation scoring
- System health scoring
Monitoring
- Real-time monitoring
- Health monitoring
- AI monitoring
- Governance monitoring
- Compliance monitoring
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Performance monitoring
- Resource monitoring
- Metrics collection
- Distributed tracing
- Alerting
- Anomaly detection
Simulation
- Sandbox environment
- Digital twin
- Shadow mode
- Red-team testing
- Scenario simulation
- Governance simulation
- AI behavior simulation
- Stress testing
- Failure analysis
- Recovery validation
Developer Platform
SDKs
- Core SDK
- Plugin SDK
- Governance SDK
- Policy SDK
- Audit SDK
- Security SDK
- AI SDK
- Compliance SDK
APIs
- REST API
- GraphQL API
- gRPC API
- Event API
- Webhooks
- Streaming API
- Batch API
Extension Framework
- Plugin system
- Module registry
- AI adapters
- Policy providers
- Authentication providers
- Storage providers
- Audit providers
- Notification providers
- Visualization providers
Developer Tools
- CLI
- Project generator
- Module templates
- Testing framework
- Mock services
- Local development sandbox
- API explorer
Documentation
- Automatic API documentation
- SDK documentation
- Architecture documentation
- Example projects
- Module documentation
Operations Platform
Deployment
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- Kubernetes
- Podman
- Air-gapped deployment
- Offline deployment
- Edge deployment
Infrastructure
- High availability
- Horizontal scaling
- Vertical scaling
- Distributed clustering
- Load balancing
- Service discovery
Configuration
- Central configuration
- Distributed configuration
- Dynamic configuration
- Configuration versioning
- Environment profiles
Logging
- Structured logging
- Central log aggregation
- Audit logging
- Security logging
- Performance logging
Alerting
- Rule-based alerts
- AI-generated alerts
- Compliance alerts
- Security alerts
- Infrastructure alerts
Backup & Recovery
- Automated backups
- Incremental backups
- Snapshot management
- Restore validation
- Disaster recovery
Lifecycle
- Rolling upgrades
- Canary deployments
- Blue-green deployments
- Rollback management
- Version management
Data Platform
- Data connectors
- Data validation
- Data normalization
- Metadata management
- Knowledge graph
- Vector storage support
- Structured storage
- Unstructured storage
- Data provenance
- Data quality scoring
Interoperability
- Open APIs
- Event-driven architecture
- Standards-based interfaces
- Import/export framework
- Federation support
- External identity providers
- External policy providers
- External audit systems
AI Safety
- Human-in-the-loop enforcement
- Capability restrictions
- Context boundaries
- Safe execution
- Execution approval
- Impossible-state detection
- Safety constraints
- Ethical safeguards
- Policy enforcement
- Formal verification support
Modular Architecture
Every major component of NeuraTrust is independently deployable.
Modules are:
- Installable
- Replaceable
- Upgradeable
- Versioned
- Independently tested
- Independently documented
- Interface-driven
- Event-driven
- Secure by default
- Observable by default
Contributing
Contributions are welcome.
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before submitting pull requests.
All contributions must comply with the AGPL-3.0+ license and preserve the project’s attribution requirements.
NeuraTrust
Intelligence with Integrity
Specification Branding License (SBL)
Standard
- Fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant system
- Copyleft enforced for network deployments
- Required attribution:
- Roxanne Ardary
- https://www.roxanneardary.com/
Optional
- Specification Branding License (SBL)
- Attribution-free commercial deployment
- Pricing based on scale, usage, and deployment scope
- https://roxanneardary.com/neuratrust/
License & Notice Requirements
NeuraTrust is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).
By contributing to this project, you agree that your contributions will also be released under this license.
Please note the following:
- All contributions must comply with the AGPL-3.0+ terms.
- Under Section 7 of the license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works must preserve attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.
- NeuraTrust specifications are free to use with attribution. A Specification Branding License can be negotiated upon request.
- The project’s notice.md file tracks attribution requirements and contributor acknowledgments. Any update that adds new contributors or modifies attribution must also update
notice.md. - When submitting a pull request, ensure that any new files maintain attribution headers where applicable.
- Network-deployed versions of this software must also remain fully AGPL-3.0+ compliant, including exposure of source code modifications when applicable under the license.
For full legal details, please refer to the AGPL-3.0+ license and the project’s notice.md file.
Notice – NeuraTrust
Attribution Requirement:
Under Section 7 of the AGPL 3.0+ license, all redistributions, forks, and derivative works, including network-deployed versions of this project, must provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com.
Contributors
This file tracks contributors and their specific contributions to the project.
- Roxanne Ardary, roxanneardary.com – March 19, 2026
Created the repository for NeuraTrust. Designed the initial architecture and governance model for a human-accountable, auditable AI system. - [Add other contributors here] – [Date]
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License – NeuraTrust
This repository is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later (AGPL-3.0+).
Key Points
- You are free to use, modify, and distribute the code.
- All redistributions, forks, and derivative works or network-deployed versions must also be licensed under AGPL-3.0+ and must provide attribution to Roxanne Ardary and roxanneardary.com as required under Section 7 of the license.
- The software is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind.
For the full license text, see the official license:
GNU AGPL-3.0 License.