SOURCE 0 — Evidentiary Sovereignty for Autonomous Systems

SOURCE 0 introduces the first evidentiary architecture designed for autonomous systems operating under endogenous observation. It establishes a structural truth: no system can verify itself without perturbing itself. Instead of denying this limit, SOURCE 0 makes it explicit, measurable, and legally enforceable.

Across the European regulatory landscape — NIS 2, DORA, AI Act, eIDAS 2, and the EU Customs Trust & Check regime — a unified expectation is emerging: proof must be contemporaneous, independent, and externally verifiable.

At the core of SOURCE 0 is the Historical Reality Dossier (HRD): a sealed, pre‑execution evidentiary record, anchored through qualified timestamps and held under judicial custody. It transforms digital events into sovereign, regulator‑grade evidence.

SOURCE 0 is not a compliance framework. It is a doctrine of evidentiary sovereignty. Compliance is no longer declared — it is proven, sealed, and timestamped at T‑0.

Executive Summary: Modern autonomous systems embed telemetry, tracing, and attestation directly within the infrastructures they observe, collapsing the traditional separation between computation and monitoring. In these environments, every measurement introduces structural perturbation. SOURCE 0 formalizes this condition as a structural property rather than a failure mode. By replacing binary correctness with a probabilistic assurance framework and introducing a tamper-evident Historical Reality Dossier (HRD), this architecture makes observer-execution coupling explicit, measurable, and mathematically bounded under adversarial conditions.