World Model Governance Framework

Ten ingredients, nineteen structural primitives, and the 190 control objectives of a governable world model.

Cameisha Smith, CIA · Working Draft v0.5.0 · L0 · Public · CC-BY 4.0 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21220866

What it is

Governance is a completeness problem, not a capability problem. WMGF is plain-language guidance for governing any system that claims to model the world — a research substrate, an autonomous agent, a robotics platform, or an organization governing itself. It names the structural connective tissue that COSO, ISO, and NIST assume but never specify, makes it auditable, and tests it across every one of the 190 control objectives.

Contents

Part 1What This Framework Is Part 2The Computational Governance Grammar Part 3Governance Disciplines and Conformance Architecture Part 4The Ten Ingredients Part 5The Governance Matrix Part 6Internal Control Guidance Appendix AMapping to External Frameworks Appendix BCOSO IC 2013 Principle Mapping (Summary)Appendix CGlossary RegisterThe 190 control objectives ColumnsThe 19 structural primitives PDFThe formatted document (print layout)

The matrix

10 × 19 = 190control objectives

155evidence-grounded

35coverage gaps

1challenged

155 of 190 objectives are evidence-backed — 412 audit-style findings walked across a corpus of 20 research reports.

The ten ingredients

01PurposeWhat the system is for, declared where it can be pointed at.

02DistinctionsThe categories it draws and treats as real.

03EntitiesThe things it tracks, and how they're registered.

04ConstraintsThe rules that bind it, and which one wins.

05TimeHow it stays continuous and current across change.

06ObservationHow it takes the world in, and on whose authority.

07RelationsHow its things connect and commit to each other.

08Transition LogicHow one state becomes the next, legibly.

09MemoryWhat it retains, and what it is architecturally allowed to hold true.

10UncertaintyWhat it knows vs. declares vs. derives vs. cannot see.

Five governance disciplines

01Authority MappingCOSO · Control Environment

02Decision BoundaryCOSO · Risk Assessment

03Constraint PropagationCOSO · Control Activities

04Evidence ObligationsCOSO · Information & Communication

05Accountability ResolutionCOSO · Monitoring