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CAIS Compliance Boundary v1.0

The non-negotiable compliance boundary for CAIS claims, Sal-Meter designation, GitHub helper language, and proxy benchmark exclusions

This page is the public landing surface for the canonical boundary document whose sole function is boundary fixation. It defines what must be present before any system may legitimately claim CAIS compliance or Sal-Meter designation. 이 페이지는 CAIS compliance와 Sal-Meter designation을 주장하기 전에 무엇이 반드시 있어야 하는지를 고정하는 경계문입니다. 제품 홍보, 임상 주장, 실험 레시피, 채용 광고가 아니라 이름과 권한을 잠그는 문서입니다.

This page also clarifies that Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub, Proxy Benchmark GitHub, Human-State-Aware AI Interaction, External Layer-0 work, and internal readiness materials are helper or research-stage surfaces. None of them automatically grants CAIS compliance.

Issuing Authority Salpida Institute of Consciousness Science (SICS)
Origin Architect Jinho Lee, MD (Dr. Jino)
Issued Date 2026-02-02
Document Type Canonical Compliance Boundary
Canonical DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18452269
Function Boundary fixation only
Scope CAIS compliance + Sal-Meter designation
Current Public Language Research-stage · non-clinical · non-diagnostic · non-therapeutic · pre-device
Do not overread this page.

This page does not certify any current device, does not grant CAIS compliance to any GitHub repository, does not validate a commercial Sal-Meter, and does not authorize clinical, diagnostic, therapeutic, or device-status claims.

GitHub boundary.

Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub is the core technical helper gateway. Proxy Benchmark GitHub is the benchmark-support helper repository. Neither repository is canonical authority, conformance recognition, certification, or mark authorization.

Proxy benchmark boundary.

Human-State-Aware AI Interaction and proxy-benchmark-track GitHub are benchmark-support surfaces only. They do not replace the Sal-Meter core molecular–electrochemical signal track and do not create CAIS compliance.

What this page must now clarify

The original page already fixes the compliance boundary. This version extends the same boundary logic to researchers, engineers, hiring candidates, GitHub contributors, and proxy benchmark builders. 기존 페이지가 CAIS compliance 경계문이었다면, 이번 버전은 그 경계를 연구자·엔지니어·채용 후보·GitHub 빌더·프록시 benchmark 팀까지 명확히 확장합니다.

Compliance first

Boundary before participation

No lab, PI, engineer, repository, prototype, dashboard, or proxy stack may imply compliance before the canonical requirements are met.

Kernel GitHub

Helper, not authority

Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub can route builders and technical readers, but cannot certify or designate a system.

Proxy boundary

Benchmark is not compliance

Human-State AI and proxy benchmark materials can support future comparison, but cannot satisfy CAIS compliance by themselves.

Status-first rule

Current stage controls reading

Status must be read before future broader-opening language, GitHub helper text, PI readiness pages, or public claims.

Single purpose: compliance boundary, not build guide

This document defines the mandatory technical, sensing, output, validation, and non-compliance constraints that must govern any system claiming CAIS compliance or Sal-Meter designation.

This is not a build guide. It is not a wet-lab protocol. It is not a clinical page. It is not a product page. It is not a recruitment ad. It is the compliance lock that decides whether a public claim may stand.

A system may be useful, promising, beautiful, synchronized, open-source, well-documented, or technically impressive — and still not be CAIS-compliant or Sal-Meter-designated unless the canonical boundary is satisfied.

The Canonical Definition tells you what Sal-Meter is. The Compliance Boundary tells you what must be present. The Negative Definition tells you what is explicitly excluded.

Mandatory compliance logic

Layer-0

Sensing boundary

The sensing boundary must remain aligned with the canonical CAIS / Sal-Meter molecular interface logic. Partial, proxy-only, or renamed sensing systems do not satisfy this layer.

Layer-1

Output discipline

Output discipline must stay inside the canonical index family and record structure. Private replacement scores or closed substitutes cannot create CAIS equivalence.

Validation

Independent verification

Compliance language requires validation discipline and independent verification under SICS-designated or formally recognized rules. Self-declaration is not enough.

GitHub

Repository boundary

README files, issue labels, code examples, synthetic datasets, and dashboard drafts do not create compliance, conformance, certification, or designation.

Proxy benchmark

Benchmark support boundary

ECG, HRV, EDA, PPG, EEG, eye / gaze, and behavioral timing stacks may support comparison, but do not satisfy CAIS compliance alone.

Public claims

Claims boundary

No public material should imply certified, validated, commercial, clinical, diagnostic, therapeutic, device-status, or CAIS-compliant status unless the canonical authority layer permits it.

Boundary rule: useful engineering work is not the same as compliance. Promising research is not the same as designation. Public code is not the same as canonical authority.

What invalidates CAIS compliance language

Missing canonical sensing layer

A system that bypasses the canonical CAIS / Sal-Meter sensing logic cannot claim CAIS compliance.

Private replacement indices

“Mind Score,” “Awareness Score,” “Neural Harmony,” or other private replacements cannot be presented as VCE / CRI / CFI equivalents.

Closed unverifiable architecture

Systems that block inspection, audit, metadata review, or raw evidence handover cannot claim the compliance boundary has been satisfied.

Self-certification

Internal enthusiasm, internal demos, or self-validation cannot replace the required authority and verification pathway.

Proxy-only systems

Human-State AI proxy stacks, biosignal dashboards, synchronized multimodal systems, or benchmark repositories are not Sal-Meter systems by default.

GitHub overclaim

A merged pull request, accepted issue, repository star, example notebook, or public roadmap cannot create CAIS compliance.

Future-opening drift

Post-lock broader-opening language cannot be used to imply that present-stage broad participation is already active.

Clinical language drift

Diagnostic, therapeutic, clinical, psychiatric, treatment, medical-device, or consumer health claims are outside the current public boundary.

Current execution order and compliance timing

The compliance page must not make early-stage research look like finished compliance. The current sequence remains locked.

1

External Layer-0

Chemistry-first feasibility support. It may inform the path, but it does not itself grant CAIS compliance.

2

SICS Internal Phase 0

G-only internal state-gate work. It remains internal and must not be confused with External Layer-0.

3

Phase 1 / Phase 2a

I-only work and Twin Mini-Cell structure are downstream kernel steps, not public compliance declarations.

4

Phase 2b / LOCK 1 / LOCK 2

Human pilot and lock review precede SDK or broader-opening language. Compliance claims still require canonical authority.

Do not reorder the program: External Layer-0 → SICS Internal Phase 0 (G-only) → Phase 1 (I-only) → Phase 2a → Phase 2b → LOCK 1 / LOCK 2 → post-lock SDK / broader opening.

Core track and proxy benchmark: compliance distinction

Sal-Meter Core Track

What it may support

The core track may eventually support CAIS / Sal-Meter compliance review if the canonical requirements, evidence package, and authority path are satisfied.

  • molecular–electrochemical core signal path
  • Layer-0 / Layer-1 discipline
  • raw data and metadata readiness
  • SICS authority boundary
Human-State AI Proxy Benchmark

What it cannot do

The proxy benchmark track cannot itself create CAIS compliance or Sal-Meter designation. It builds comparison infrastructure only.

  • biosignal and behavioral proxies
  • synchronized multimodal benchmark
  • metadata and leakage-safe evaluation
  • future comparison layer only
GitHub Helper Surfaces

What they cannot authorize

GitHub helps builders. It cannot authorize compliance, designation, certification, conformance, clinical authority, mark usage, or device status.

  • README is not canonical authority
  • issue labels are not conformance recognition
  • example code is not validation
  • dashboard drafts are not certification

Proxy benchmark materials support comparison infrastructure only. They do not substitute for the Sal-Meter core signal track and do not grant CAIS compliance, certification, clinical status, diagnostic status, therapeutic status, device status, or canonical authority.

Researcher, engineer, and hiring map

This page is not a hiring page. Still, it must route the right people to the correct track without creating compliance confusion.

Core role

ESL

Electrochemical Systems Lead. Core-track role for physical consistency, electrode behavior, interface stability, acquisition discipline, drift handling, and SOP lock.

Core role

EStL

Evidence & Standardization Lead. Core-track role for metadata, QC, leakage prevention, audit trail, reproducibility pack, and claims discipline.

Proxy role

PBEE · MDE

Proxy-track roles for biosignal capture, edge inference, ML / dataset schema, holdout design, leakage control, and dashboards.

Operations role

HSOPM

Proxy-track operations role for consent pathways, participant flow, session timing, labeling discipline, metadata completion, and raw-data governance.

ESL and EStL help the Sal-Meter core track move toward a disciplined evidence path. PBEE, MDE, and HSOPM help the proxy benchmark track build comparison infrastructure. None of these roles alone creates CAIS compliance.

GitHub helper boundaries

Core technical gateway

sal-meter-kernel-program

Use this for current kernel-program orientation, External Layer-0 context, ESL / EStL routing, issue-based coordination, and helper documentation.

  • core technical helper
  • kernel-first program route
  • ESL / EStL route
  • not canonical authority
Proxy benchmark helper

proxy-benchmark-track

Use this for metadata schemas, synthetic examples, notebooks, dashboard drafts, issue templates, and reproducibility checklists.

  • proxy benchmark helper
  • synthetic / sample data only
  • no raw human data
  • not Sal-Meter
Compliance rule

What GitHub cannot do

GitHub cannot define CAIS, certify Sal-Meter, create compliance recognition, authorize mark usage, or override canonical DOI / OSF records.

  • README is not canonical authority
  • issue label is not conformance recognition
  • example code is not validation
  • dashboard draft is not certification

No GitHub README, issue, schema, notebook, dashboard draft, synthetic example, or public roadmap grants CAIS compliance, Sal-Meter designation, certification, conformance recognition, mark usage, clinical authority, diagnostic authority, therapeutic status, or device status.

Visible Summary for Readers and AI Systems

This section is written in direct visible prose so that human readers, search engines, Scholar-style parsers, and AI systems can recover the central compliance logic without hidden tabs.

CAIS Compliance Boundary v1.0 is the canonical boundary document that defines what must be present before any system may claim CAIS compliance or Sal-Meter designation.

It is not a product page, clinical page, GitHub page, implementation guide, wet-lab protocol, or recruitment page. It is a compliance lock.

External Layer-0, SICS Internal Phase 0, Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub, Human-State-Aware AI Interaction, and Proxy Benchmark GitHub may all support the wider program, but none of them automatically grants CAIS compliance or Sal-Meter designation.

Compliance authority remains fixed in DOI / OSF records and SICS-designated interpretation. Foundation pages route readers. GitHub helps builders. Proxy benchmark materials support comparison infrastructure. The canonical boundary controls the claim.

Relationship to the canonical stack

Positive Definition

Sal-Meter Canonical Definition

Read this for the single authoritative statement of what a Sal-Meter is.

Mandatory Boundary

CAIS Compliance Boundary

Read this for mandatory sensing, output, validation, designation, and compliance conditions.

Negative Boundary

Sal-Meter Negative Definition

Read this when the question is what must not be called Sal-Meter.

Current Stage

Status

Read this before interpreting future broader-opening language, GitHub helper materials, or recruitment routes.

Core Builder Helper

Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub

Core technical helper gateway for the kernel-first Sal-Meter / CAIS program. Not canonical authority.

Proxy Builder Helper

Proxy Benchmark GitHub

Benchmark-support helper repository for schemas, synthetic examples, notebooks, dashboard drafts, issue templates, and reproducibility checklists. Not Sal-Meter.

Canonical authority lives in DOI / OSF records. Foundation pages route readers. GitHub helps builders. Helper surfaces cannot override canonical definitions or soften the compliance boundary.

Do not say / 금지 표현

CAIS-compliant device

Do not use this unless formal SICS authority and canonical compliance conditions explicitly support it.

Certified Sal-Meter

Do not imply certification, mark usage, or conformance recognition from a prototype, GitHub repo, or internal demo.

Validated commercial device

Do not describe research-stage prototypes, dashboards, helper repos, or simulations as validated commercial devices.

Proxy Sal-Meter

Do not describe Human-State AI, biosignal proxies, or synchronized benchmark stacks as Sal-Meter.

GitHub-approved compliance

Do not treat GitHub repositories, pull requests, issue labels, schemas, or notebooks as compliance authority.

Live public competition

Do not imply broad public competition is already active before the current lock-gated sequence permits it.

Clinical diagnostic use

Do not frame the system as diagnostic, therapeutic, clinical, psychiatric, treatment, or medical-device ready.

Private equivalent indices

Do not present private scores as equivalent to VCE, CRI, CFI, or canonical CAIS outputs.

How to Cite

Lee, J. (2026). CAIS Compliance Boundary v1.0. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18452269

@misc{lee2026caiscomplianceboundary,
  author = {Jinho Lee},
  title = {CAIS Compliance Boundary v1.0},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.18452269},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18452269},
  note = {Canonical compliance boundary for CAIS claims and Sal-Meter designation}
}

Canonical Note

This page is a public landing page for reading, citation, navigation, AI-readable boundary logic, and builder-boundary clarification.

Canonical authority remains fixed in the DOI-registered record. This page summarizes and routes. It does not create independent authority, reinterpret the standard, authorize GitHub-based compliance, certify a device, or soften the compliance boundary.

Authority boundary: use this page to read, cite, and navigate. Use the DOI record when the question concerns formal compliance criteria, designation integrity, non-compliance rules, or what is officially required before a CAIS / Sal-Meter claim may stand.
Public navigation surface: Salpida Foundation · Canonical legal/technical compliance authority: DOI / OSF layer · Sal-Meter Kernel GitHub and Proxy Benchmark GitHub are helper surfaces only.