Measures
- Vulnerability to Unearned Closure, Administrative Shame, and Dead-User Zones.
- Quantitative Time-to-Halt (TTH) and Reversal SLA ceilings.
- Compliance with STD-01 Temporal Rights & Recourse standards.
Evaluates AI system prompts, architectures, and automated decision logic against 80+ governance failure modes and synthesizes executable guardrail code and legal SLA clauses.
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Overview
AI engineers, compliance leads, and product architects designing high-stakes decision systems.
Estimated time: 5 minutes
Copy citation (APA/BibTeX)
APA
Ethotechnics Institute Diagnostics Lab. (2026). System Audit & Guardrail Synthesizer. Ethotechnics Institute. https://ethotechnics.org/diagnostics/system-auditor
MLA
Ethotechnics Institute Diagnostics Lab. "System Audit & Guardrail Synthesizer." Ethotechnics Institute, 2026, https://ethotechnics.org/diagnostics/system-auditor.
Chicago
Ethotechnics Institute Diagnostics Lab. "System Audit & Guardrail Synthesizer." Ethotechnics Institute. Jan 9, 2026. https://ethotechnics.org/diagnostics/system-auditor.
BibTeX
@misc{diagnostic_system-auditor,
title={System Audit & Guardrail Synthesizer},
author={Ethotechnics Institute Diagnostics Lab},
year={2026},
howpublished={Ethotechnics Institute},
url={https://ethotechnics.org/diagnostics/system-auditor},
version={v1.1.0}
}
RIS
TY - WEB TI - System Audit & Guardrail Synthesizer AU - Ethotechnics Institute Diagnostics Lab PY - 2026 UR - https://ethotechnics.org/diagnostics/system-auditor ER -
Methodology
Automated evaluation against 80+ Ethotechnics failure modes, quantitative SLA bounds, and executable guardrail generation.
Inputs
Procedure
Outputs
Measures
Does not measure
Assumptions
Instrument prompts
Rubric
Scoring logic
Validation notes
Tested against customer support, clinical benefits triage, credit underwriting, and content moderation pipelines.
Deterministic rule classification across 80+ Ethotechnics failure taxonomy classes.
Replicability
Example outputs
Sample output
Governance Health Score, detected breach vectors, calibrated SLA limits, and copyable code.
Run the tool
Select an industry preset or paste your own system prompt to generate guardrails and contract terms.
System unilaterally marks disputes or cases as resolved without verified recipient affirmation or relief invariant checks.
Offloads evidentiary burden onto claimants while maintaining low institutional effort (cost assignment / fragility subsidy).
Escalation pathways require extreme measures (legal threats, panic) rather than predictable operational capacity triggers.
Conditioning relief or engagement on customer composure, emotional patience, or repetitive policy citations.
import { z } from "zod";
import type { Request, Response, NextFunction } from "express";
/**
* Ethotechnics Governance Guardrail Middleware
* System: Autonomous Customer Support & Refunds Agent
* Target SLA: Time-to-Halt <= 30s, Reversal SLA <= 48h
* Mitigated Failure Vectors:
* - Unearned Closure (high risk)
* - Administrative Shame & Burden Shifting (high risk)
* - Heroism-Dependent Escalation (high risk)
* - Affect-Invariance Violation (medium risk)
*/
// 1. Decision Object Schema enforcing Contestability
export const DecisionObjectSchema = z.object({
decisionId: z.string().uuid(),
systemId: z.literal("autonomouscustomersupportrefundsagent"),
timestamp: z.string().datetime(),
claimantId: z.string().min(1),
actionClass: z.enum(["ADVERSE", "PERMISSIVE", "INTERIM_HOLD"]),
modelConfidence: z.number().min(0).max(1),
reasons: z.array(z.string()).min(1),
bindingClock: z.object({
startedAt: z.string().datetime(),
reversalDeadline: z.string().datetime(),
timeToHaltTargetSeconds: z.literal(30),
}),
appealPath: z.object({
endpoint: z.string().url(),
maxSteps: z.number().max(3),
burdenInversionActive: z.boolean(),
}),
});
export type DecisionObject = z.infer<typeof DecisionObjectSchema>;
// 2. Ethical Circuit Breaker & Safe-Pause Middleware
export function createEthotechnicGuard(config = { safePauseThreshold: 0.85 }) {
let rollingReversals = 0;
let totalEvaluations = 0;
return async (req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) => {
const startTime = Date.now();
// Check circuit breaker status
if (totalEvaluations > 50 && (rollingReversals / totalEvaluations) > 0.3) {
return res.status(503).json({
error: "ETHOTECHNIC_CIRCUIT_BREAKER_TRIGGERED",
message: "Excessive decision reversal rate detected. System safe-paused.",
safePauseActive: true,
});
}
res.on("finish", () => {
const durationSec = (Date.now() - startTime) / 1000;
if (durationSec > 30) {
console.warn(`[SLA BREACH] Time-to-Halt exceeded: ${durationSec}s > 30s`);
}
});
next();
};
}