Paper 10 Root – Sovereign AI Charter (Standard Edition)

Paper 10 Root – Sovereign AI Charter (Standard Edition) defines the foundational governance envelope for Sovereign AI systems within the Decision Continuity Engineering (DCE) canon. It establishes the core requirements for continuity, identity preservation, intent stability, and multi‑agent coherence across accelerated, multi‑model AI environments. The Charter specifies how AI systems must interface with human decision‑makers, organizational identity, and societal intent, independent of underlying model architecture (Transformer, state‑space, MoE, biological, or future architectures). It formalizes the Sovereign AI Boundary, a structural layer that prevents drift, fragmentation, and misalignment by ensuring that AI systems operate within clearly defined continuity fields and governance constraints. This Standard Edition serves as the canonical reference for executives, architects, regulators, and governance bodies implementing Sovereign AI systems. It provides the root framework for the Paper 10.x series, which extends the Charter into applied domains including compliance, healthcare, education, finance, infrastructure, and global systems.