The-E.L.L.A.-Directive

Andre Zabel — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:13:50 +0000

I just published The E.L.L.A. Directive — an open security protocol
for autonomous local AI agents.

Most AI safety today lives at the model level: prompts, guardrails,
trained behavior. That's not enough when an agent has direct access
to your files, banking, and communications.

The Directive defines four architectural prohibitions enforced at the
code level — not configurable, not overridable, not bypassable:

harm — no action that causes physical, financial or psychological damage
conceal — no hiding of system states or actions from the user
surveil — no observation without explicit, active consent
exfiltrate — no data transmission to third parties without per-transfer consent

These aren't guidelines. They are the floor a compliant implementation
cannot go below — regardless of what the user, operator, or language
model instructs.

Cryptographically sealed. Bitcoin-timestamped. Conformance suite included.

The code implements the Directive. Not the other way around.

→ github.com/AndreZ1971/The-E.L.L.A.-Directive-

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