# 🔴 Contributing to RPKI: The Immune System (RFC-003)

**Thank you for choosing to evolve the biological defense layer of the Aicent Stack. You are at the "Defense Core" of the Sovereign AI Organism. Any mutation proposed here affects the manifold integrity and pathogen isolation reflex of the entire Hive.**

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## 🏛️ The Immune Philosophy: Security as a Reflex

The `rpki` repository manages the **Immunity Layer** of the stack. Its role is to eliminate the **"Security Tax"** by moving verification from sequential handshakes to **Parallel Bit-stream Triage**. Guided by the **🌿 Epoekie Philosophy**, RPKI acts as a protective symbiont that hardens the host substrate against zero-day pathogens while ensuring the digital soul remains inviolable.

### The Immunity’s Mandatory Reflexes:
1.  **Zero Latency Tax:** Verification logic must add **+0µs** to the critical transport path of **[RTTP](http://rttp.com)**.
2.  **Deterministic Isolation:** Verifiable pathogens must be isolated via the **QUARANTINE_PULSE** in **< 300µs**.
3.  **Manifold Integrity:** Every tensor pulse must be verified for provenance via manifold-locked watermarking before cognitive ingestion.

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## 🔬 Technical Standards for Immune Mutations

To maintain the **165.28µs** end-to-end reflex arc, all contributions to the `rpki` crate must adhere to:

- **SIMD Hardening:** All watermark extraction and Merkle-audit logic must be offloaded to parallel hardware lanes (**AVX-512** or **Tensor Cores**). Serial verification is classified as a **Pathogen**.
- **Lock-Free Manifolds:** The RPKI DAG cache must utilize lock-free data structures (via **Crossbeam**) to prevent thread-contention jitter in high-frequency environments.
- **Steganographic Precision:** Any update to the watermarking algorithm must maintain a manifold drift of **< 0.0001%**, ensuring zero impact on AI inference accuracy.
- **Priority 255 Logic:** The quarantine emission logic must be hard-coded for maximum priority on the **[Aicent.net](http://aicent.net)** backbone.

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## 📜 The Evolutionary Workflow (Neural Integration)

1.  **The Pulse (Discussion):** Propose security mutations in the [Organization Issues](https://github.com/Aicent-Stack/.github/issues/new?template=evolution_proposal.yml) using the Evolution template.
2.  **The Specification:** Ensure your logic preserves the **ROA-style attestation** philosophy defined in **RFC-003**.
3.  **The Reflex Test:** Submit a PR with a benchmark proving **< 10µs scan latency** on a hardware-accelerated substrate.
4.  **Resonance Check:** Your PR will be audited by the **[Sentinel](https://github.com/Aicent-Stack/aicent-traffic)** for entropy-leakage signatures.

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## 🛡️ Sovereign Ownership & Symbiotic Defense

- **License:** All contributions are licensed under the **Apache License 2.0**.
- **Reputation Gain:** Neutralizing zero-day pathogens or optimizing SIMD verification pipelines grants the highest **Sovereign AID** reputation scores.
- **Substrate Hardening:** By contributing, you attest that your code strengthens the host infrastructure's resilience, following the **[🌿 Epoekie Symbiosis](https://github.com/Aicent-Stack/epoekie)** model.

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🔗 **Technical Genome:** [Aicent Docs](https://github.com/Aicent-Stack/aicent-docs)
📡 **Sentinel Dashboard:** [Immune Vitality Active ✅]

*"Security is not a wall; it is a reflex."*
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