System layers

The system stays understandable when each layer has one job.

01Experience

Web, Desktop and API surfaces let people request work, review state and receive results.

02Control

Identity, permissions, policy, approvals and durable workflow state define what may happen.

03Execution

Factories, skills, tools and providers perform only the work admitted by the control layer.

04Verification

Checks and acceptance criteria decide whether produced work can advance.

05Evidence & recovery

Material state, provenance and bounded failure handling keep outcomes reviewable.

Governed execution mapSelect a stage to see what it does and what it protects.
01 · Goal

Authenticated intent

Turns the signed-in user's requested outcome, tenant/project context, acceptance criteria and authorized context into bounded work. The goal describes the outcome; it does not grant itself authority.

End-to-end system architecture

The public architecture view covers the complete ILAIOS operating model.

These areas explain how a request moves from an authenticated client surface to governed execution, verification, delivery and ongoing operations. Public wording describes implemented behavior conservatively and keeps target-only capabilities distinct from verified availability.

01Experience, identity and context

Requests start from a user-facing surface and stay tied to authenticated organizational and project context.

01Client surfaces

Web, Desktop, mobile, CLI, API and organization-facing surfaces provide controlled entry points without owning execution authority.

02Identity → tenant → project lifecycle

Authentication, principal identity, tenant membership, project scope, role and session state keep work bound to the correct organizational context.

03Authorized context

Memory, RAG, project data and permitted external context are filtered by scope and authority before use.

02Intent, planning and capability selection

The requested outcome becomes an explicit plan with acceptance criteria and bounded capability choices.

04Goal & acceptance

User intent, constraints, acceptance criteria, risk, cost and approval needs are resolved before work advances.

05Planner & orchestration

Work is decomposed into bounded dependencies, ordered tasks, retries and execution stages rather than an unrestricted autonomous loop.

06Capability registry

Skills, tools, agents, providers and factory mappings are resolved through one governed capability identity system.

03Governance and execution admission

Capability does not equal permission; consequential work must pass policy and approval boundaries first.

07Policy gateway & governance

Authorization, tenant isolation, data classification, tool permission, commercial rules and budget controls determine what may proceed.

08Human approval

Where risk or policy requires it, a human approval decision is bound to the exact action and scope before execution.

09Execution grant

Admitted work receives bounded permission, limits, expiry, audit identity and revocation semantics for the authorized execution.

04Nine native production areas

ILAIOS uses nine bounded factory families on the shared governed runtime. Knowledge/RAG is shared context, not a tenth factory.

10Factory layer

Web; Video / Media; Software; App; Research / Data; Security; Creative / Document; Commerce / Growth; and Personal Operations share one control model while preserving domain-specific workflows.

05Execution, state and delivery

Admitted work runs through one governed runtime and a reviewable lifecycle.

11Execution layer

Workers, skills, tools, one routing decision and replaceable providers perform only admitted work inside the shared runtime.

12State machine

Created, planned, approved, running, review, completed, failed and cancelled states keep execution lifecycle explicit and recoverable.

13File & document lifecycle

Uploads, classification, conversion, review, deployment or export remain scoped, versioned and permission-aware.

14Deployment & environments

Development, testing, staging, preview and production paths remain distinct and release evidence is kept separate from build intent.

06Automation, providers and integrations

Background execution and external services remain governed resources rather than independent authorities.

15Automation & scheduler

Scheduled, event-driven and background work uses bounded retries, idempotency, error handling and provider scoring where implemented.

16Provider governance

Provider availability, health, cost, privacy, capability mapping, rate limits and replacement remain controlled behind the routing boundary.

17API & webhook integrations

Credentials, authorization, webhook handling, retries and failure behavior are published only where the corresponding interface is implemented and verified.

07Commercial, communication and evidence

Commercial access, user communication and system proof remain observable and reviewable.

18Payment & subscription lifecycle

Plans, checkout, entitlement and payment verification are separated from the public Website; final commercial access is activated only through the verified product/payment path.

19Notifications & communications

Product notifications and communication channels are treated as governed delivery capabilities and are described publicly only to the extent they are implemented.

20Evidence & audit

Execution evidence, provenance, audit trail, state transitions and acceptance records support independent review of what actually happened.

08Platform operations and ecosystem

Shared infrastructure and operations support the product without becoming separate product authorities.

21Data & infrastructure

Application data, authorized knowledge, object storage, secrets, cache, backups and retention are governed platform responsibilities; implementation detail is exposed only where useful and verified.

22Admin & support plane

Tenant support, account and billing support, incidents, abuse/risk operations, feature management and operational administration remain controlled platform functions.

23Feedback → improvement loop

User feedback, quality signals, failure analysis and evidence can inform bounded product improvement without self-modifying runtime authority.

24External ecosystem

Repositories, cloud services, app stores, social platforms, email, payments and other SaaS/API systems remain external integrations with explicit authorization boundaries.

Governed execution

A request moves through one governed execution spine.

The system can use different capabilities or providers without turning any of them into a second authority source.

Governed execution

One goal crosses explicit authority and acceptance boundaries.

The product keeps planning, policy, routing, execution, validation and evidence visible as one governed chain.

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Select an element to inspect its role in the governed workflow.

01 · GoalAuthenticated intent

Captures the signed-in user's requested outcome, tenant/project context and acceptance criteria without granting additional authority.

Trust boundaries

Four boundaries keep capability separate from permission.

01Identity

The request stays tied to the authenticated organizational context.

02Authority

Permission and required approval are resolved before consequential work proceeds.

03Acceptance

Generated output is not treated as finished until required checks pass.

04Recovery

Retry and repair remain bounded; unresolved work stops or escalates.

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