CommerceOS Governance Framework

Autonomy without governance is financial recklessness.

Flat peer-to-peer agent swarms enter infinite conversational loops and waste capital. CommerceOS enforces a strict Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) supervisory hierarchy with bounded recursion and human-in-the-loop safety.

Strict DAG Topology

No circular agent dependencies. Agents only delegate downward and report upward. A leaf worker cannot countermand a director or execute out-of-order mutations.

Zero-Runaway Circuit Breaker

Hardcoded maximum recursion depth of 5 steps per goal. If an agent encounters ambiguous tool feedback, the loop terminates and generates a human clarification ticket.

PII & Secret Scrubbing

Customer shipping addresses, credit card hashes, and private Shopify API tokens are token-masked before any external LLM inference payload is transmitted.

Human-in-the-Loop Thresholds

Actions involving capital allocation above $250, catalog price alterations exceeding 15%, or supplier draft orders require explicit 1-click executive approval.

Role Hierarchy Matrix

Supervisory Levels & Bounded Authority

CEO · Executive Supervisor
Root Node
High-level goal decomposition, budget allocation, and executive brief generation.
Cannot execute financial transactions without HITL sign-off.
COO · Operational Controller
Layer 1 Supervisor
Task scheduling, inter-agent message validation, execution latency oversight.
Enforces max DAG recursion depth of 5 iterations.
CMO / CTO / CFO · Domain Directors
Layer 2 Directors
Creative strategy (CMO), Shopify API governance (CTO), Profit Truth & COGS (CFO).
Domain-isolated authority; cannot command peers horizontally.
Specialized Workers
Leaf Nodes
Media buyers, creative synthesizers, scraper collectors, landing page builders.
Read-only access to external keys; actions queued as assisted decisions.
Cryptographic Audit Ledger

Every decision logged immutably with full reasoning chains.

No black boxes. CommerceOS captures the triggering signal, prompt parameters, intermediate thoughts, and resulting API mutation in an append-only audit trail.

Review Decision Stream