M87 Governed AgentChain

Research artifact — early implementation of governed Claude sub-agent orchestration. Foundational work for the M87 governance stack.

Status: Research artifact. For production governance tooling, see M87-Spine-lite and m87-audit-agent.

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What It Is

An early implementation of governed Claude sub-agent orchestration — modular task delegation, test integrity enforcement, and output safety handling via Claude's ~/.claude/commands/ system.

The first working version of patterns that became the M87 governance stack. The core ideas here — proposal-gated execution, artifact-backed output, structured audit loops — are now implemented more fully in M87-Spine-lite and m87-audit-agent.

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Structure

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├── .claude/
│   └── commands/
│       └── m87_governed_agentchain.md   # Main orchestrator file
├── examples/
│   ├── TASK.md                          # Task spec file
│   └── emotion_signal.json              # Emotional state input
├── docs/
│   └── governance-overview.pdf          # Architecture overview
└── README.md

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Quick Start

1. Copy the command file into your Claude commands folder:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands/
cp .claude/commands/m87_governed_agentchain.md ~/.claude/commands/

2. Run inside Claude:

/m87_governed_agentchain

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Governance Patterns (Early Implementation)

• SPOT — Output policy violation detection
• FORT — Test integrity enforcement, prevents test modification or leakage
• PARCEL — Safe output delivery and containment

These became the SPOT and FORT rule taxonomy in the current audit agent ruleset.

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