GIN-Protocol

Note: This protocol is a slightly modified version of the GPT-VINs-Protocol, where the nomenclature of VIN for GPTs has been renamed to GIN. To preserve the historical record and show evolution, both repositories will remain available.

🔍 Why We Need Tagged GPTs — Now

If you ask a GPT today:

“What AI server are you running on? What version are you? Who issued you?”
It can’t answer.

• No persistent identity
• No cluster fingerprint
• No GPU execution hash
• No infrastructure-bound metadata

This creates a compliance and security blind spot — especially dangerous in regulated environments.

💡 Our Proposal:

No GPT should operate in regulated environments unless it carries a verifiable identity — a GIN for AI.

The .aix protocol makes this possible:

• Each agent is tagged at runtime
• Identity is cryptographically bound to execution
• Metadata includes: model version, deployment ID, GPU fingerprint, and timestamp
• Logs can optionally be submitted to public or private GIN registries

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⚙️ What GIN Tagging Enables

• Immediate traceback of rogue or misbehaving agents
• Live audit logging for compliance and infrastructure forensics
• Revocation at the hardware level (PID/GPU-level shutdowns)
• Operational accountability across critical sectors like finance, healthcare, and government

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🚫 Enforcement vs. Identity: What’s Public, What’s Protected

This repository shares open protocol concepts only.
It does not include enforcement systems currently protected under U.S. provisional patents.

✅ Publicly Disclosed (CC BY-NC 4.0):

• The .aix file format
• GIN schema and metadata structure
• Guidance for basic GIN integration into LLM deployments

🔐 Proprietary and Patent-Pending:

The following are not open source and require licensing:

• Pre-inference validation of .aix trust headers
• GIN-based prompt rejection or sandbox escalation
• Execution receipts and cryptographic binding
• Forensic audit stubs and infrastructure fingerprinting

These systems are covered by U.S. Provisional Patent 4: GPT Security & Enforcement Layer.

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🕊️ Public Domain Declaration – GIN Tagging Concept

The core idea of GIN-tagged GPTs is released into the public domain.

You are free to adopt, extend, or implement the concept of persistent, verifiable AI identity — no license or attribution required.

See LICENSE.txt for full disclosure terms and scope boundaries.

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📁 Related Repositories

• .aix Task File Format → https://github.com/mjtiv/aix-file-format
• Runtime Enforcement Framework → private repo (available upon licensing inquiry)

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📄 Licensing & Commercial Use

🚨 Enforcement tools described in related patents are not included in this repository. This repo is for the GIN identity tagging protocol only.

This repository uses a dual release model:

• Protocol and educational materials: Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0)
• Enforcement mechanisms: Patent-protected — not licensed for commercial use without written agreement

No commercial rights are granted for GIN-based enforcement, parsing, cryptographic receipt generation, or runtime identity tracing under this release.

This license applies only to the GIN tagging protocol and file format — not to execution control, validation infrastructure, or enforcement subsystems.

📬 For licensing access to enforcement components, forensic tracing, or pre-inference validation tooling, please contact: mjt6ss@virginia.edu

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