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RFC-012: Artifact Lifecycle Protocol (ALP) — 2. Core Principles

AIGP Specification › RFC-012: Artifact Lifecycle Protocol (ALP) › 2. Core Principles

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2. Core Principles

  1. Governed Creation

    • Every artifact is produced by an agent operating under AIGP governance and informed by ACP context.
    • No artifact exists without a traceable origin.

  2. Explicit Lifecycle

    • Artifacts progress through defined states: DRAFT REVIEW APPROVED EXECUTING COMPLETED | FAILED ARCHIVED.
    • State transitions are protocol operations, not implicit side effects.

  3. Approval Gates

    • Promotion from REVIEW APPROVED requires explicit approval.
    • Approval authority is determined by artifact type and blast radius.

  4. Mandatory Compensation

    • Every executable artifact MUST have a paired rollback artifact.
    • An artifact without compensation MUST NOT be promoted to APPROVED.

  5. Cryptographic Integrity

    • Artifacts are SHA-256 hash-signed at each lifecycle transition.
    • Any content modification after signing is a protocol violation.

  6. Full Provenance

    • The complete chain context sources AI invocation artifact approval execution outcome is recorded and queryable.

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