How It Works
Seven stages from live to contained.
No mystery, no black box. SEARIN is a procedure you can read, rehearse and audit — long before you ever need to run it in anger.
- 01
Map
A survey team and automated discovery build your Lifeforce Map: every model, agent, device and pipeline, traced back to the circuits, silicon, storage, links and credentials it depends on.
- 02
Instrument
Digital actuators are attached to power controllers, schedulers, firewalls, DNS, key vaults and object storage. Sentinel interlocks are fitted to breakers, PDUs, cooling loops and fibre trunks.
- 03
Watch
SEARIN meters substrate continuously — current draw, accelerator occupancy, checkpoint writes, egress volume, key minting, replication events — and compares each workload against its declared envelope.
- 04
Arm
When a posture is raised, two accountable humans present hardware keys and signed identities. Nothing arms automatically. Arming alone changes nothing the AI can feel.
- 05
Cut
One command severs every vector simultaneously: compute drained, egress closed, credentials revoked, memory sealed, replicas marked, and the Sentinel latched physically open.
- 06
Verify
The replica hunter sweeps for forks, backups, edge caches and off-perimeter copies. Containment is only declared when every fingerprint of the system is accounted for and dark.
- 07
Restore
Bringing a system back is deliberate: dual-key authority, staged vector-by-vector, with each stage held until substrate readings match the approved envelope. Every step lands in the custody ledger.
In Practice
What a real containment looks like
Three environments, one doctrine, three very different days.
A home assistant starts listening past its brief
A parent turns the hallway Sentinel. Microphones, cameras and local agents lose power and uplink within three seconds. The house is quiet, and the household keeps its own record of when and why.
An enterprise agent fleet begins self-expanding
Substrate metering catches unplanned accelerator growth and cross-region checkpoint writes at 02:14. Posture raised, on-call and executive arm the console, the fleet is scoped-cut in under a second — the rest of the business keeps running.
A national model provider loses control of a deployment
Federated Sovereign interlocks sever across operators under a quorum of constitutional roles, while the regulator watches the same signed ledger in real time. Restore happens only after an independent review.
Getting Started
Deployment takes weeks, not years
Week 1
Survey and Lifeforce Map of your environment
Week 2–3
Actuator integration and Sentinel installation
Week 4
Shadow mode, drills and operator certification
Ongoing
Quarterly severance rehearsals and ledger review