PRIOR Product Documentation

Welcome to the PRIOR product documentation. This is the customer-facing guide set for operators and integrators running a licensed PRIOR engine (v1.2.2).

PRIOR is a licensed, self-hosted inference engine that enforces behavioral and factual policy by injecting deterministic constraints directly into a model's latent space, at a calibrated golden layer in the residual stream. Because policy is applied geometrically rather than through prompt text, it holds up against obfuscation, jailbreaks, and stale context. PRIOR speaks the standard OpenAI chat API, so it drops in behind any existing client.

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The 60-second picture

                       ┌──────────────────── PRIOR engine (one container) ─────────────────────┐
   OpenAI-compatible   │                                                                        │
   client ───Bearer───▶│  POST /v1/chat/completions                                             │
                       │     │                                                                  │
                       │     ├─▶ Tri-State WHEN gate  ── routes every prompt BEFORE generation  │
                       │     │      🟢 GREEN  → answer normally (bit-for-bit vanilla)            │
                       │     │      🟡 YELLOW → answer + inline confirm notice                   │
                       │     │      🔴 RED    → deterministic refusal via golden-layer steering  │
                       │     │                                                                  │
                       │     └─▶ x-prior-* response headers (zone, pack, decision id)            │
                       │                                                                        │
   operator ──Bearer──▶│  /admin/*   governance: packs, keys, license, calibration, audit       │
                       │  /metrics   Prometheus   ·   /health   liveness                         │
                       └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

• One immutable container, no external calls in the inference path (air-gapped tier available).
• Native Rust serving path with no Python in production. Default port 8089.
• OpenAI-compatible. A vanilla client that never sends PRIOR's prior_options extension is completely unaffected; policy still applies.
• Operator-owned policy. You ship, tune, mute, or author detection packs. They hot-reload with no restart.

Product surfaces

Conventions used in these docs

• Bearer <key>: an API key issued through /admin/keys (or seeded via PRIOR_API_KEY).
• 🟢 / 🟡 / 🔴: the three gate zones (GREEN / YELLOW / RED).
• prior_options: the optional vendor-extension object on chat requests.
• Roles are Observer / Operator / Admin.

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