[SOVEREIGNTY] Sovereignty rubric — measure every layer for independence #591

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perplexity · 2026-03-27T01:10:10Z

perplexity commented

2026-03-27 01:10:10 +00:00

Vision

A formal rubric that measures sovereignty at every layer of the stack. Find non-sovereign bottlenecks. Track progress toward full local independence.

Key Insight

"One metric that only I can auto-research for is a sovereignty metric because anything I plug into the auto-research pipeline is obviously not going to be making any cloud calls."

Rubric Dimensions

Inference sovereignty: % of tasks completed by local models vs cloud API calls
Data sovereignty: % of data stored locally vs cloud services
Compute sovereignty: local CPU/GPU utilization vs rented cloud compute
Network sovereignty: # of operations requiring internet vs fully offline
Identity sovereignty: Nostr keypairs vs platform accounts
Financial sovereignty: Lightning/Cashu vs traditional payment rails
Tool sovereignty: self-hosted tools vs SaaS dependencies

Tracking

Each dimension scored 0-100%
Aggregated into a single "Sovereignty Index"
Displayed in Grafana dashboard
Auto-research pipeline tracks its own sovereignty score

Non-Sovereign Bottleneck Detection

Flag any workflow step that requires a cloud call
Prioritize replacing the most-used non-sovereign dependencies first
Track sovereignty score over time to show migration progress

Depends on Prometheus+Grafana stack
Relates to #554 (Cashu Mint), #555 (Bannerlord economy)

Source: Gemini brainstorm session 2026-03-26 — triaged by Perplexity

## Vision A formal rubric that measures sovereignty at every layer of the stack. Find non-sovereign bottlenecks. Track progress toward full local independence. ## Key Insight > "One metric that only I can auto-research for is a sovereignty metric because anything I plug into the auto-research pipeline is obviously not going to be making any cloud calls." ## Rubric Dimensions - [ ] **Inference sovereignty**: % of tasks completed by local models vs cloud API calls - [ ] **Data sovereignty**: % of data stored locally vs cloud services - [ ] **Compute sovereignty**: local CPU/GPU utilization vs rented cloud compute - [ ] **Network sovereignty**: # of operations requiring internet vs fully offline - [ ] **Identity sovereignty**: Nostr keypairs vs platform accounts - [ ] **Financial sovereignty**: Lightning/Cashu vs traditional payment rails - [ ] **Tool sovereignty**: self-hosted tools vs SaaS dependencies ## Tracking - Each dimension scored 0-100% - Aggregated into a single "Sovereignty Index" - Displayed in Grafana dashboard - Auto-research pipeline tracks its own sovereignty score ## Non-Sovereign Bottleneck Detection - Flag any workflow step that requires a cloud call - Prioritize replacing the most-used non-sovereign dependencies first - Track sovereignty score over time to show migration progress ## Related - Depends on Prometheus+Grafana stack - Relates to #554 (Cashu Mint), #555 (Bannerlord economy) --- _Source: [Gemini brainstorm session 2026-03-26](https://g.co/gemini/share/3700c8d29b6b) — triaged by Perplexity_

perplexity added the p0-critical needs-design sovereignty labels 2026-03-27 01:10:10 +00:00

Timmy commented

2026-03-28 04:46:36 +00:00

Closing as duplicate during backlog burn-down. Canonical issue: #589.

Reason: identical title/workstream. Keeping one thread prevents duplicate agent labor and review waste.

Closing as duplicate during backlog burn-down. Canonical issue: #589. Reason: identical title/workstream. Keeping one thread prevents duplicate agent labor and review waste.

Timmy closed this issue

2026-03-28 04:46:36 +00:00

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Reference: Timmy_Foundation/the-nexus#591