Mechanized Foundations of Structural Governance: Machine-Checked Proofs for Governed Intelligence

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27289v2
• Date: Tue, 05 May 2026 10:45:32 GMT
• Title: Mechanized Foundations of Structural Governance: Machine-Checked Proofs for Governed Intelligence
• Abstract summary: We present five results in the theory of structural governance for cognitive workflow systems.<n>Three are in Coq 8.19 using the Interaction Trees library with mechanizedized coinduction; two are proved on paper with explicit reductions.<n>A sixth contribution connects the abstract model to the deployed runtime: the Verified Interpreter Specification.
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• Abstract: We present five results in the theory of structural governance for cognitive workflow systems. Three are mechanized in Coq 8.19 using the Interaction Trees library with parameterized coinduction; two are proved on paper with explicit reductions. The Coinductive Safety Predicate (gov_safe) is a coinductive property that captures governance safety for infinite program behaviors, indexed by a boolean permission flag that is provably false for ungoverned I/O and true for governed interpretations (mechanized). The Governance Invariance Theorem establishes that governance is uniform across the meta-recursive tower: governance at level n+1 reduces to governance at level n by definitional equality of the type (mechanized). The Sufficiency Theorem proves that four atomic primitives (code, reason, memory, call) are expressively complete for any discrete intelligent system, formalized as compositional closure of a Kleisli category (mechanized). The Alternating Normal Form provides a canonical decomposition of any machine into alternating code and effect layers, with a confluent rewriting system (paper proof). The Necessity Theorem proves via explicit reduction to Rice's theorem that an architecturally opaque component (the reason primitive) is mathematically necessary for problems requiring semantic judgment (paper proof). A sixth contribution connects the abstract model to the deployed runtime: the Verified Interpreter Specification formalizes the BEAM runtime's trust, capability, and hash chain logic in Coq, then tests the running system against this specification using property-based testing with over 70,000 randomly generated directive sequences and zero disagreements. The mechanization comprises approximately 12,000 lines across 36 modules with 454 theorems and zero admitted lemmas.

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