Sovereign Resilience-as-Code for Critical Infrastructure, Cyber-Physical Supply Chains, and National Security Logistics
Declare resilience. Detect drift. Prove continuity.
Aegis Continuity / ContinuityOS is the canonical Continuity-as-Code / Resilience-as-Code platform designed to declare, evaluate, simulate, reconcile, and cryptographically prove cyber-physical resilience across sovereign supply networks, maritime transit corridors, critical infrastructure sectors, and expeditionary defense logistics.
Engineered for Ministries of Defense (DND/CAF, DoD, NATO SHAPE), Critical Infrastructure Protection Agencies (CISA, Public Safety Canada, ENISA), and Tier-1 Defense Primes, ContinuityOS bridges the strategic chasm between configuration status and effective operational survivability.
Traditional Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, OpenTofu) asks:
"Is my infrastructure configured as intended?"
Kubernetes asks:
"Is my software workload converging toward its declared desired state?"
ContinuityOS answers:
"Will my critical mission corridor, supply network, or logistics chokepoint function through degradation, electronic warfare, denial, and cascade failure — and what exact, explainable, bounded actions restore continuity?"
Resilience in modern geopolitical and cyber-physical environments is not binary (OPEN vs. CLOSED). Infrastructure can remain physically intact while becoming completely unusable:
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OPEN_BUT_UNINSURABLE: Waterway is physically navigable, but Lloyd's Joint War Committee (JWC) underwriters withdraw war-risk coverage, halting commercial container and bulk shipping. -
OPEN_BUT_NAVIGATION_UNTRUSTED: Geographic coordinates are clear, but nation-state GNSS spoofing, meaconing, or PNT denial renders automated vessel navigation and port cranes unsafe. -
OPEN_BUT_COMMUNICATIONS_DEGRADED: High-latitude corridor is open, but extreme solar geomagnetic activity ($K_p \ge 8.0$ ) or cyber denial severs commercial LEO SATCOM links. -
OPEN_BUT_NO_CARRIER_CAPACITY: Terminal berths are open, but commercial maritime carriers divert fleets around the Cape of Good Hope, leaving strategic depots starved. -
RECOVERY_BACKLOGGED: Route is physically cleared, but severe port container congestion and vessel repositioning create weeks of operational lag ($T0 \to T5$ ).
ContinuityOS enforces a strict Zero-Cloud Requirement. It requires no AWS, Azure, GCP, or commercial SaaS dependencies and is certified for disconnected SCIF deployment.
# 1. Clone & initialize workspace
git clone https://github.com/Hardonian/continuityos.git
cd continuityos
uv sync --all-extras
# 2. Run system diagnostic & sovereign air-gap audit
uv run continuity doctor
uv run continuity sovereign-audit
# 3. Validate declarative resilience policy (continuity.io/v1)
uv run continuity validate examples/arctic/network.yaml
# 4. Compile a bounded mitigation plan against observed disruption
uv run continuity plan examples/arctic/network.yaml
# 5. Execute the deterministic 12-step resilience demonstration
uv run continuity demo arctic==============================================================================
AEGIS CONTINUITY (SOVEREIGN EDITION) / CONTINUITYOS v1.0
Deterministic Cyber-Physical Resilience & National Security Continuity Engine
Scenario: ARCTIC Critical Mission Corridor
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[STEP 1/12] Loading Declared Supply Network & Policy...
Network: arctic-critical-corridor (examples/arctic/network.yaml)
Policy: arctic-continuity-policy (examples/arctic/policy.yaml)
Declared Continuity Objective: >= 95.0%
[STEP 2/12] Validating Declarative Specs against JSON Schemas...
[PASS] network.yaml schema validation (0 errors)
[PASS] policy.yaml schema validation (0 errors)
[STEP 3/12] Evaluating Baseline Plan (Pre-Disruption)...
Observed Continuity: 98.2%
Corridor State: OPEN
DRRS Readiness: C-1_FULLY_CAPABLE (Zero critical SPOFs)
Status: COMPLIANT (All declared resilience objectives satisfied)
[STEP 4/12] Injecting Correlated Disruption Event...
* Target: corridor/nsr -> Multi-factor electronic warfare & physical barrier
[EW TELEMETRY] C/N0 Drop: -19.1 dB | Pseudorange Variance: 119.0m | Clock Drift: +3.85 ppm
[THREAT AUDIT] Status: HIGH (Spoofed=True, Jammed=True)
* Target: insurance/war-risk -> Lloyd's Joint War Committee (JWC JWLA-032) notice issued
* Target: comms/commercial-leo-a -> NOAA Space Weather S3 / Geomagnetic storm (Kp=8.3)
[STEP 5/12] Probing Physical Route State...
Physical Accessibility: OPEN (Route remains physically unobstructed)
[STEP 6/12] Detecting Functional Closure (Physical vs Commercial vs Trust)...
Physical State: OPEN
Operational State: NAVIGATION_DEGRADED (Trust score: 0.45 < 0.70 threshold)
Commercial State: UNINSURABLE & NO_CARRIER_CAPACITY
Effective State: OPEN_BUT_UNINSURABLE
MIL-STD-2525D SIDC: 10043000001204000000 (Maritime Transit Lane - Uninsurable)
DRRS C-Rating: C-4_NOT_CAPABLE (Downgraded from C-1)
Mission Limiting: MLF-CORR-01 (Primary resupply lane commercially denied & uninsurable)
Root Cause: Physical availability is NOT equivalent to effective availability.
War-risk underwriters withdrawn + carriers diverted.
[STEP 7/12] Simulating Strategic Inventory Depletion...
Normal Burn: 1200 units/day
Degraded Burn: 1800 units/day
Days to Warning: Day 16
Days to Critical: Day 23
Days to Exhaustion: Day 27
Assured Replenishment Days: 45 days (DEFICIT: 18 days past exhaustion)
[STEP 8/12] Invoking Route Substitution Compiler...
Primary Route: Northern Sea Route (NSR)
Alternative 1: Pacific / Transshipment Route
Alternative 2: North Atlantic / Kirkenes Corridor
[STEP 9/12] Evaluating Alternative 1 (Capacity Constrained)...
Geographically viable: YES
Commercially viable: YES
Port handling capacity: DEGRADED (Throughput deficit)
Inland rail capacity: DEGRADED
Arrival before critical inventory date: NO (Arrives Day 36 vs deadline Day 28)
Effective substitution: FAIL (REJECTED: Port handling bottleneck & lead time deficit)
[STEP 10/12] Evaluating Alternative 2 (Viable Substitution)...
Geographically viable: YES
Commercially viable: YES
Port handling capacity: PASS
Inland rail capacity: PASS
Arrival before critical inventory date: YES (Arrives Day 20 <= deadline Day 28)
Effective substitution: PASS (ACCEPTED: Alternative supply configuration activated)
[STEP 11/12] Modeling Recovery Lag (T0 -> T5)...
Milestones:
T0: Incident Event (Day 0) -> DRRS: C-4 (Not Mission Capable)
T1: Physical access restored (Day 12) -> DRRS: C-4 (Port backlog active)
T2: Commercial participation restored (Insurance & carrier return)
T3: Port backlog cleared & capacity normalized -> DRRS: C-3 (Marginally Capable)
T4: Strategic inventory replenished to target reserve -> DRRS: C-2 (Substantially Capable)
T5: Full resilience objective restored (Day 94) -> DRRS: C-1 (Fully Capable)
At Day 15 (Physical reopen occurred at Day 12):
Current Phase: T1_physical_reopening
Network Healthy: False
Reopened But Lagging:True (Invariant 8 verified: Recovery != Reopening)
At Day 95:
Network Healthy: True (Full restoration achieved at T5)
[STEP 12/12] Final Policy Reconciliation & Post-Quantum Cryptographic Sealing...
Declared Continuity: 95.0%
Observed Continuity: 96.5%
Network Status: COMPLIANT (4 checks compliant, 0 failed)
Remediation Actions: Atlantic corridor active, secondary SATCOM linked, reserve margin secured.
Evidence Sealed: NIST FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65 + Ed25519 Hybrid Signature Verified (Ed25519+ML-DSA-65)
Merkle Inclusion Root:5159c781b63bed00e64428a8a0860008... [ZK-Verifiable Proof]
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DEMONSTRATION COMPLETE: 12/12 Invariants, Defense Readiness & PQC Seals Verified.
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ContinuityOS directly bridges physical supply chain telemetry and military operational readiness:
| Rating | Classification | Operational Criteria |
|---|---|---|
| C-1 | Fully Mission Capable | Overall continuity |
| C-2 | Substantially Capable | Overall continuity |
| C-3 | Marginally Capable | Overall continuity |
| C-4 | Not Mission Capable | Overall continuity |
| C-5 | Regeneration / Overhaul | Active reconstruction underway following severe kinetic/cyber interdiction. |
Every evaluation generates machine-readable Mission Limiting Factors (MLFs) identifying exact upstream chokepoints throttling mission readiness.
Corridor assessments and functional closure states automatically export to defense geospatial consoles (ATAK, WinTAK, FalconView, NATO JCOP) conforming to MIL-STD-2525D and NATO APP-6D:
continuity export-cop examples/arctic/assessment.json --output cop-overlay.geojson- Operational Corridor (
OPEN): SIDC10033000001201000000(Friend / Green) - Degraded Route (
OPEN_DEGRADED): SIDC10033000001202000000(Amber / Yellow) - Uninsurable Passage (
OPEN_BUT_UNINSURABLE): SIDC10043000001204000000(Neutral / Orange) - PNT/GNSS Spoofed (
OPEN_BUT_NAVIGATION_UNTRUSTED): SIDC10043000001206000000(Hostile EW / Purple) - Functionally Closed (
FUNCTIONALLY_CLOSED): SIDC10063000001208000000(Hostile / Red)
ContinuityOS incorporates built-in anomaly detection models for multi-vector threat telemetry:
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GNSS / PNT Electronic Warfare Detector: Ingests multi-frequency pseudorange residuals, Carrier-to-Noise ratio (
$C/N_0$ dB drop), and receiver clock drift (ppm) to distinguish natural scintillation from coordinated nation-state spoofing and meaconing. - Port OT / SCADA Firmware & Protocol Anomaly Detector: Scans industrial control telemetry across automated container cranes, lock gates, and pumping stations for malicious command flooding or anomalous state transitions.
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Maritime AIS Kinematics & Dark Fleet Detector: Correlates radar contacts against published AIS telemetry to detect impossible kinematic acceleration (
$>35\text{ kts}$ on bulk carriers), identity swapping, and deliberate transponder deactivation in contested waters. -
Ionospheric Space Weather Attenuation: Models solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and geomagnetic storms (
$K_p \ge 7.0$ ) to predict polar satellite communications blackouts.
To ensure long-term sovereign non-repudiation against future quantum cryptanalysis, ContinuityOS records all policy decisions, reconciliation states, and remediation plans into a post-quantum hybrid evidence ledger:
- NIST FIPS 204 ML-DSA-65 (Dilithium): Classical Ed25519 signatures bound to lattice-based post-quantum signatures using SHA3-512 cryptographic envelopes.
- NIST FIPS 203 ML-KEM-768 (Kyber): Quantum-resistant key encapsulation for sealed intelligence payloads transmitted across unclassified transit links.
- Zero-Knowledge Merkle Inclusion Proofs: Generates verifiable inclusion proofs allowing auditors to cryptographically confirm that a specific observation was present in the ledger without disclosing classified metadata.
Designed for Disconnected, Degraded, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) environments:
- Zero Outbound Sockets: All external HTTP/HTTPS calls are disabled by default (
CONTINUITYOS_OUTBOUND_HTTP_ENABLED=false). - Content-Addressed Snapshot Cache: Operates completely from verified local immutable snapshots.
- Raft DDIL Cluster Consensus: Forward-deployed expeditionary nodes synchronize state logs peer-to-peer over intermittent tactical radio links without requiring central cloud connectivity.
ContinuityOS enforces 10 strict architectural invariants verified across every build:
- Physical availability is not equivalent to effective availability: Infrastructure physically clear of obstruction is unusable if commercially uninsurable, carrier-diverted, or navigation-compromised.
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UNKNOWNmust never silently becomeHEALTHY: Incomplete data or provider downtime generates conservative degraded or unknown states, never assumed compliance. - All operational state must preserve provenance: Observations maintain cryptographic hashes, source class, retrieval timestamp, and signature status.
- Deterministic evaluation: Given identical inputs and topology, policy reconciliation and solver compilation are bit-for-bit reproducible.
- Graceful provider degradation: External sensor failure degrades trust confidence without crashing execution.
- Explainable decisions: Every state transition produces machine-readable reason codes and dependency traces.
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Correlated disruptions are first-class primitives: Cascading multi-event failures are modeled via declarative
Scenarioresources. -
Recovery is separate from reopening: Physical clearance (
$T1$ ) does not equate to operational health ($T5$ ) due to port backlogs and fleet displacement. - Nominal redundancy must be tested for shared dependencies: Systems sharing upstream teleports, power substations, or chokepoints are flagged as false redundancy.
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Declarative and versionable: All policies and networks are machine-readable YAML conforming to
continuity.io/v1and managed in Git.
graph TB
subgraph PhysicalLayer ["Layer 1: Physical Availability"]
P1[Draft Clearance & Channel Depth]
P2[Sea Ice Concentration <= 3/10ths]
P3[Port Berth & Crane Availability]
end
subgraph OperationalLayer ["Layer 2: Operational Integrity"]
O1[Navigation / PNT Integrity >= 0.90]
O2[Protected SATCOM Link Active]
O3[Pilotage & Vessel Traffic Control]
end
subgraph CommercialLayer ["Layer 3: Commercial Viability"]
C1[War-Risk Insurance Active (JWC Underwriting)]
C2[Commercial Carrier Vessel Availability]
C3[Bunker Fuel Contract Clearance]
end
subgraph TrustLayer ["Layer 4: Digital Trust & Provenance"]
T1[Source Qualification & Freshness]
T2[Cryptographic Ledger Integrity]
T3[Multi-Source Corroboration]
end
PhysicalLayer --> EFF{Effective State Engine}
OperationalLayer --> EFF
CommercialLayer --> EFF
TrustLayer --> EFF
EFF -->|All Layers Pass| S1[OPEN]
EFF -->|War-Risk Withdrawn| S2[OPEN_BUT_UNINSURABLE]
EFF -->|PNT Spoofed| S3[OPEN_BUT_NAVIGATION_UNTRUSTED]
EFF -->|Multi-Factor Loss| S4[FUNCTIONALLY_CLOSED]
Finding an alternate route is not a simple shortest-path problem. ContinuityOS evaluates 9 concurrent constraints:
flowchart TD
FAIL[Primary Chokepoint Disrupted] --> EVAL[Evaluate Contingency Candidate Path]
EVAL --> C1{Geographically Navigable?}
C1 -->|No| R1[REJECT: Draft / Lock Infeasible]
C1 -->|Yes| C2{Vessel Fleet Ice-Class Certified?}
C2 -->|No| R2[REJECT: Hull Classification Inadequate]
C2 -->|Yes| C3{Commercial War-Risk Insurable?}
C3 -->|No| R3[REJECT: JWC Exclusion Zone Active]
C3 -->|Yes| C4{Receiving Port Crane Capacity >= Demand?}
C4 -->|No| R4[REJECT: Port Berth Bottleneck]
C4 -->|Yes| C5{Inland Intermodal Rail Throughput >= Demand?}
C5 -->|No| R5[REJECT: Downstream Rail Deficit]
C5 -->|Yes| C6{Estimated Arrival <= Assured Replenishment Deadline?}
C6 -->|No| R6[REJECT: Depots Exhaust Before Cargo Arrival]
C6 -->|Yes| ACCEPT[APPROVED: Valid Strategic Substitution Plan]
timeline
title Strategic Supply Corridor Recovery Lifecycle
T0 : Incident Event : Kinetic, cyber, or environmental disruption severs route
T1 : Physical Clearance : Obstructions cleared; channel navigable (DRRS remains C-4)
T2 : Commercial Return : Marine underwriters reinstate coverage; charter contracts signed
T3 : Logistics Realignment : Port backlogs clear; container vessels reposition (DRRS: C-3)
T4 : Inventory Replenished : Contingency shipments arrive; strategic buffers rebuild (DRRS: C-2)
T5 : Resilience Restored : Reserve margins normal; network fully compliant (DRRS: C-1)
apiVersion: continuity.io/v1
kind: AssurancePolicy
metadata:
name: polar-resilience-assurance
spec:
continuityObjective:
minimum: 0.95
tolerate:
corridorLoss: 1
portLoss: 1
communicationProviderLoss: 1
navigationSourceLoss: 2
observationSourceLoss: 1
evidence:
minimumIndependentOperationalSources: 2
minimumIndependentNavigationSources: 3
minimumIndependentEnvironmentalSources: 2
commercial:
minimumCarrierOptions: 2
insuranceRequired: true
inventory:
minimumReserveDays: 30
minimumAssuredReplenishmentCycles: 1
recovery:
verifyCarrierReturn: true
verifyBacklogClearance: true
verifyReserveRestoration: trueapiVersion: continuity.io/v1
kind: RouteSubstitution
metadata:
name: arctic-atlantic-contingency
spec:
primaryRouteId: corridor/nsr
alternateRouteId: corridor/atlantic
candidateName: North Atlantic / Kirkenes Deepwater Corridor
requiredVesselClass: Ice-Class 1A
originCapacityTonnes: 500000.0
routeCapacityTonnes: 450000.0
portHandlingCapacityTonnes: 380000.0
inlandRailCapacityTonnes: 320000.0
carrierAvailable: true
insuranceAvailable: true
fuelBunkerAvailable: true
transitDays: 20.0
criticalArrivalDeadlineDays: 28.0| Command Category | Subcommands | Operational Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Core Continuity | plan, drift, validate, init, graph, observe |
Declarative reconciliation, blast radius modeling, and drift alerting. |
| Assurance & Solvers | assurance, substitute, compiler, remediate |
Resilience budgeting scorecards, route substitution, and bounded exact solvers. |
| Simulation & Lag | simulate, inventory, recovery, wargame-sim |
Correlated cascade simulation, depletion modeling, and wargaming. |
| National Security | readiness, export-cop, threat-scan, dark-fleet-detect |
DRRS readiness ratings, MIL-STD-2525D COP export, and EW spoofing detection. |
| Sovereign Controls | sovereign-audit, cross-domain-filter, rbac-check, scif-attest |
Air-gap verification, cross-domain diode filtering, and TPM hardware quotes. |
| Government & Adoption | government-pack, sbom, verify-compliance |
CCCS ITSG-33 / PBMM tenders, CycloneDX/SPDX SBOMs, and compliance audits. |
| Evidence & Cryptography | evidence, merkle-proof, verify-ledger |
Append-only hash chains, Post-Quantum ML-DSA signatures, and Merkle proofs. |
| Edge & Cluster | cluster-status, cluster-sync, edge-package |
DDIL cluster consensus and microcontroller C header packaging (TinyMoE). |
| Strategic Corridors | canadian-corridor, critical-minerals-audit, permafrost-audit |
Arctic NORAD corridors, 31 critical minerals, and permafrost thaw modeling. |
ContinuityOS enforces strict enterprise-grade build quality:
# Full verification pipeline
uv run ruff check .
uv run ruff format --check .
uv run mypy src
uv run pytest --cov=continuityos --cov-fail-under=85
uv run python scripts/threat_stress_harness.py
uv run continuity sovereign-audit
uv run continuity verify-compliance --profile all- Test Suite: 486 unit and integration tests passing (0 failures).
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Test Coverage: 94.09% across all source packages (requirement:
$\ge 85%$ ). -
Type Safety: 100% strict
mypycompliance across 62 modules. - Performance Benchmarks: 10,000 nodes / 50,000 edges cascade propagation in 38 milliseconds.
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Roadmap & Closure: Full 100-priority true closure specification tracked in
ROADMAP-100.md. -
Government Adoption: Turn-key PSPC, DND/CAF, and NATO procurement guidelines in
docs/GOVERNMENT_ADOPTION.md.
ContinuityOS is engineered strictly for defensive resilience planning, business continuity, critical infrastructure protection, civil logistics assurance, and disaster recovery.
- No Offensive Operations: We do not implement kinetic strike targeting, weapons routing, offensive cyber attacks, or adversary infrastructure interdiction.
- No Autonomous Dispatch: All plan compilation, remediation options, and recovery timelines are strictly advisory. Consequential actions require accountable human-in-the-loop authorization.
- Privacy & Civil Protections: Data collection focuses exclusively on infrastructure health, asset telemetry, and macro-environmental observations.
ContinuityOS is released under the Apache 2.0 License.
Copyright (c) 2026 ContinuityOS Contributors & Hardonia AI Systems.
