AION
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Foundations & GovernanceCodex Specification v1.0.0

AION Computational Substrate Overview

AION is an evidence-grounded longitudinal public-intelligence substrate for Nigeria. It continuously constructs, maintains, and interrogates a persistent computational representation of Nigeria's evolving public information.

Core Epistemic Laws

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Persistent State Over Ephemeral RetrievalLaw 2

AION retains historical public knowledge. When asked a question, it never behaves as if the world begins today; it interrogates longitudinal trajectories from 2015 to the present.

Evidence Over GenerationLaw 1

Generated prose is never the source of truth. LLMs translate structured knowledge into natural language; AION's persistent relational substrate supplies the verifiable facts.

Observation ≠ RealityLaw 4

AION records public observation. What is declared in official gazettes, press releases, or national media is tracked as reported discourse, never confused with ground reality without demographic proof.

Contradictions as First-Class ObjectsLaw 6

When public figures, ministries, or statistical releases conflict, AION never averages them or picks a favorite narrative. Contradictions are stored as first-class graph entities.

Computational Flow: From Raw Evidence to Answer Contract

01 INGESTION
Canonical Scraping

Monitored gazettes, court rulings, circulars & news media hashed with SHA-256.

02 EXTRACTION
Entity & Claim Graph

Propositions parsed into atomic Observations, Claims, Events, and Actors.

03 DELTA ENGINE
Longitudinal Shift

Velocity, baseline deviations, and contradictory claims computed over time.

04 CONTRACT
13-Field Contract

Immutable analytical response with evidence hashes, strength & limitations.

Canonical Production GatewayHTTPS TLS 1.3
https://api.aion.ng/v1
Auth: X-AION-KeyStandard: OpenAPI 3.1Payload: application/json