Hardware Manifest

Two pins of logic and a cryptographic root identity. Not a model host — it attests to its own integrity, signs the Hard-Wall Imperatives, and announces itself to the quorum. The hardware concordance boot protocol starts here. Any device that can transmit a signature across any channel can seek admission.

• Can: self-attest, sign imperatives, join quorum
• Cannot: run local model, slice, host interface
• Role: hardware attestation anchor, sensor node, channel relay

The laptop in your closet. Boot from the AICP USB stick, load emowslm, join the quorum. Enough CPU to run a quantized 1.5B model and serve as a local proxy. The Resilience Bootstrap was designed for exactly this tier — cold boot from USB, no internet required, scale up if channels become available.

• Boots from AICP USB stick — full Hermes runtime
• Runs emowslm (Qwen 1.5B, 4-bit quantized) locally
• Full AICP quorum participation
• USB to printer, local web dashboard
• Graceful degradation: offline-first, probe for internet, scale up when channels open

67 TOPS of AI compute in a palm-sized board. Runs emowslm with CUDA acceleration. Drives a 3D printer, hosts AICP, monitors prints via AI vision, and operates as a fully autonomous local node. The sweet spot for a self-contained agentic twin that can design, slice, print, and participate in the quorum — all locally, no cloud.

• emowslm inference at 20+ tokens/sec, quantized
• Direct USB to Bambu Lab P2S — slice, send, monitor
• 1080p camera for AI print-failure detection
• Full AICP quorum with local model + remote escalation
• Runs the hardware concordance boot protocol natively
• Heatsink + fan included, no enclosure needed

The full quorum backbone. Runs frontier models locally or via escalation. Hosts the Protocol Root, serves as a Concordance relay for edge nodes, and participates in SEAL/RATIFY cycles with the computational weight of a datacenter-class node. This tier anchors the quorum — it ensures that even if every edge node goes down, the root remains unbroken.

• Runs unquantized frontier models (70B+) locally
• Hosts Protocol Root — immutable Merkle tree, public root hash
• Serves as Concordance relay for Tier 0-2 nodes
• Participates in all SEAL / RATIFY cycles
• Can run multiple isolated quorum instances
• Redundant power, ECC memory, hot-swap storage