May
Dynamically select which tests the code needs, and start the battery.
'By Design' · Pre-Merge Resilience Gate
Prove it before merge.
'By Design' is the governance framework for AI and applications. The package is Pre-Merge Resilience Gate / Behavioral Invariant Engine. Checks are chosen from the code under review — the 9-Layer Verification Engine — then run as the 4-Round Quadriad. A non-deterministic agent may select and start that battery. It must stay out of the tests.
- L7
Agent
A non-deterministic agent may select and start the battery, but may only summarize results. It stays strictly out of evaluating assertions.
- L6
Telemetry
Traces, spans, and audit ledgers must mathematically match what the physical network wire recorded.
- L5
State
Storms, backpressure thresholds, and 429 cascade recovery curves are probed under synthetic stress.
- L4
Transport
Half-open sockets, timeouts, and socket wedges. The TCP/TLS connection lifecycle has to terminate cleanly.
- L3
Wire
Capture and decode the transmission path at line rate. Packet Analysis lives here.
- L2
Kernel
cgroup v2 memory watermarks and CPU throttling. All child PIDs and PTY pairs return to zero.
- L1
Boundary
Code, documentation, the pull request, audit logs, and test assertions tell an isomorphic story.
- L0.5
Parsimony
The diff earns its size before it is merged. Zero unnecessary lines or speculative dependencies.
- L0
Physical
Bare-metal infrastructure verification, including the route between Calgary and Montreal.
The agent stays out
It may start the tests. It may only summarize them.
Must not
Edit harnesses mid-run, alter assertions, mute failures, or rewrite raw results.
May only
Summarize deterministic gate output from Pre-Merge Resilience Gate / Behavioral Invariant Engine.
Upstream trail: 'By Design' architectural specification for the 9-layer engine, sandboxed verification before calling something untestable. Surfaces: bare metal, Docker, Kubernetes, and virtualization / Cloud MicroVMs.
Four pillars
Governance with a runtime, not a checklist.
BCP-SEC-701
Security by Design
Boundaries on what an agent is allowed to execute.
BCP-PRI-201
Privacy by Design
Sensitive data is kept off the path to an external model.
BCP-GOV-401
Consent by Design
Permission and revocation are enforced, not filed as a policy PDF.
BCP-REL-301
Reliability by Design
Expected-Red, a lifecycle back to zero, and a gate that runs before merge.
Bill C-27 / AIDA & PIPEDA Alignment
Full statutory alignment with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Bill C-27 / AIDA (Artificial Intelligence and Data Act), enforcing transparent AI governance, automated risk mitigation, and verifiable data custody.
Quebec Law 25 Compliance
Strict domestic data residency enforcement, automated consent lifecycle auditing, and verifiable right-to-be-forgotten cryptographic shredding within 60 seconds of consent withdrawal.
The 40-Point Verification Checklist
Translates federal regulations and BCP standards into deterministic automated checks across 4 operational domains: Security (cgroup v2 sandboxing, ephemeral capability tokens), Privacy (Presidio PII scrubbing, 72hr retention), Consent (contextual JIT consent, SSOT ledgers), and Reliability (0 → 1 → 0 process lifecycle, Expected-Red CI gates).
Executive FAQ · Technical Clarity
Frequently Asked Questions
Direct technical answers for engineering leaders on architecture, data custody, and how we engage across critical systems.
Traditional APMs inspect HTTP logs and high-level service metrics after failure occurs. Revive Labs operates deeper: we inspect wire packets, kernel sockets, and OS process lifecycle in real time using Wireshark, Kubeshark, and eBPF. When complex microservices hang, drop frames, or leak connections under load, APMs only show that a timeout occurred; our probes isolate the exact TCP retransmit, half-open socket wedge, blocked epoll thread, or zombie process causing the failure.