AI Pipeline Governance Handbook

About This Book

1. Who This Book Is For
2. What This Book Is Not
3. Resources

Introduction

Why Pipeline Governance Matters

1. The Wrapper Problem
2. Why LLM-First Architectures Fail at Governance
3. Treating the LLM as a Sensor
4. What Pipeline Governance Provides
5. The Cost of Not Governing
6. Architecture Principles
7. What This Handbook Covers
8. Key Takeaways

The 46-Block Canonical Pipeline

1. The Canonical Block Order
2. Contract Versioning
3. The Execution Model
4. Block Dependencies
5. Block Categories
6. The Block Factory
7. Key Takeaways

Gate Architecture

1. What Makes a Gate Different
2. The Kill Switch Gate
3. The Input Safety Gate
4. The Deliberative Ethics Gate
5. Gate Design Patterns
6. Key Takeaways

Capability Profiles and Policy Bypass

1. The RunCapabilities Configuration
2. The RBAC Permission Matrix
3. The RBACManager
4. Dynamic Permission Management
5. Configuring Policy Without Removing Code
6. Anti-Patterns to Avoid
7. Key Takeaways

Building Custom Pipeline Blocks

1. The PipelineBlock Interface
2. Building a Custom Gate Block
3. Building a Custom Processing Block
4. The Factory Pattern
5. Testing Custom Blocks
6. Block Implementation Checklist
7. Key Takeaways

Audit Trail Integration

1. The AuditRecord Schema
2. Hash Chain Integrity
3. Ed25519 Digital Signatures
4. The Audit Layer Block
5. Input and Output Hashing
6. Decision Trace for Explainability
7. Audit Trail Verification
8. Storage Considerations
9. Key Takeaways

Monitoring and Telemetry

1. The Telemetry Contract
2. The TelemetryCollector Protocol
3. Canonical Metrics
4. Block-Level Dashboards
5. Alerting Strategy
6. Correlating Telemetry with Audit Records
7. Pipeline Health Score
8. Key Takeaways

Deployment Patterns

1. The Core/Bridge Separation
2. The Bridge Layer
3. Production Configuration Patterns
4. Deployment Checklist
5. Multi-Context Deployment
6. Key Takeaways