Cognilateral — AI that tells you when it's guessing
Description: Epistemic trust layer for AI agents. Confidence tiers, sovereignty gates, and accountability records. pip install cognilateral-trust

# Your AI is confident about everything.
That's the problem.

Cognilateral is the trust layer for AI agents. It tells you when your AI is sure — and when it's guessing. Because the most dangerous AI isn't the one that can't answer. It's the one that answers confidently when it shouldn't.

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    pip install cognilateral-trust

    $ trust-check 0.92 --irreversible
    ESCALATE — C9 (sovereignty_gate): irreversible action at sovereignty-grade tier

## Three things AI agents need

### Know what's real

Every response gets a calibrated confidence score. When it says 90%, it means 90%. No more guessing whether the AI is guessing.

### Knowledge that expires

Information ages. What the AI knew last month might not be true today. Warrants track when knowledge goes stale — before you act on it.

### Acts when sure, asks when not

A sovereignty gate: act autonomously when confidence is high, escalate to a human when it's not. Every decision logged.

## Before and after

Without | With Cognilateral
--- | ---
AI sounds certain about everything | You know exactly how certain it is
Stale information treated as current | Knowledge flagged when it expires
AI acts without asking | AI asks when it isn't sure enough
"Who was responsible?" has no answer | Every action has an accountability trace

## Works with everything

LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, DSPy, Mem0, GitHub Actions, or plain Python. Zero dependencies. No API keys. No cloud.

    from cognilateral_trust import evaluate_trust

    result = evaluate_trust(0.7, is_reversible=False)
    if result.should_proceed:
        deploy()
    else:
        print(result.accountability_record.reasons)
        # ("irreversible action at sovereignty-grade tier",)