Licensing · On-device
Licensable IP · local-device topology Mode B licenses now · Mode A lanes validating-gatedThe claim family for governed on-device AI actuation, the gate between model output and local tool execution, the attested constraint store on the device, and token-gated local actuation, licensable at the OS, runtime, or silicon layer.
The topology difference
Cloud
Device
Cloud governance assumes an API boundary between model and world. On a personal device or edge SoC there is none, and the party the governance protects is the device owner, not a remote operator.
Integration patterns per licensee class
Gating tool invocation at the runtime that mediates local actions.
Offering governed-AI as a platform capability of the operating system.
Implementing the interlock in silicon at the edge.
Alongside, not against
Platform vendors' own guardrails are administered by the vendor, the rule-maker and the rule-taker in one company, the exact collapse The Missing Layer names.
This is enforcement the device owner's declared policy controls, verifiable without trusting the platform.
The Missing Layer →The honest boundary
Mode B capabilities license and integrate now; Mode A lanes inherit the validation gate. FRAND terms and Foundation custody are the shared regime, see the licensing hub; they are not restated here.