Trust

Trust starts with clear boundaries.

Hood's evaluation design separates proposal, review, authorization, and evidence roles. Authentication is not authority, and an agent cannot enlarge its own permissions.

Separated review roles
The builder's own test results are labeled as builder evidence. They are not represented as independent external assessment.
Evidence
HIOP is designed to preserve decision and outcome records at the action boundary. A chat transcript or checkbox alone is not execution evidence.
Current limits
No production certification, government authorization, announced partnership, or live physical-control deployment is claimed on this site.

Independent external security review remains an external gate. Internal separation of duties does not satisfy that gate.

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