Master Brain is the template every child brain inherits. It defines how AI knowledge is structured, governed, secured and distributed across every organisation Prosperity Path serves. The venture-specific knowledge lives in the child brain. The standards, skills and governance always come from here.
What It Is and What It Is Not
✅ What Master Brain IS
- ✓ The canonical template that all child brains inherit from
- ✓ The skills library with a full development and security review lifecycle
- ✓ The governance framework: policies, access tiers, audit trail requirements
- ✓ The security infrastructure: content manifest, canary queries, incident response
- ✓ The standards documentation that defines how a brain is built and maintained
- ✓ A deployable framework that organisations adapt to their specific context
❌ What Master Brain IS NOT
- ✗ A knowledge base for venture or client content (that lives in the child brain)
- ✗ A chatbot, AI interface or end-user product
- ✗ A task tracker, CRM or project management system
- ✗ A set-and-forget tool (it requires active governance and maintenance)
- ✗ A black box (every decision, access event and approval is recorded)
- ✗ Shared between clients (each deployment is isolated and independently governed)
How It Is Structured
Skills library
.claude/skills/
Reviewed, approved skills distributed to child brains. Every skill passes a security and quality review before it is added. New skills go into
quarantine/ first.Governance framework
brain/policies/
Seven policy documents: content governance, incident response, MCP security, ISO 42001 evidence, continuity plan, approved tools and scaling thresholds.
Standards documentation
docs/
Fifteen reference documents covering the standard, structure, skill writing, access tiers, retrieval layer, compliance, automation and IP protection.
Security tooling
brain/content-manifest.json
SHA256 hash of every brain file. Updated on every commit. A hash mismatch on audit is a Priority 1 security event handled by the incident response plan.
Canary queries
brain/canary/
Ten known-answer queries used to verify retrieval correctness after any significant brain update. Wrong answers signal knowledge poisoning or retrieval misconfiguration.
Operating instructions
.claude/base-instructions.md
The session rules synced to every child brain: grounding rules, security rules, token efficiency, skill standards and commit conventions.
The Child Brain Model
One Master. Many Deployments.
Master Brain is the template. A child brain is a properly structured repository that inherits the skills, standards and governance from Master Brain, then fills in the knowledge specific to that organisation. The master stays clean. Client knowledge never touches it.
master-brain/ ← canonical template (skills, standards, governance)
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+-- prosperity-path-brain/ (Prosperity Path operations)
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+-- axiom-[client-a]-brain/ (Client A: Axiom deployment)
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+-- axiom-[client-b]-brain/ (Client B: Axiom deployment)
What syncs: base instructions, skills, commands, hooks, documentation templates
What never syncs: brain/ content (venture-specific), CLAUDE.md (venture-specific)
The Governance Layer
| Layer | Mechanism | What It Prevents |
|---|---|---|
| Content integrity | SHA256 manifest updated on every commit. Verified by audit-brain at Step 0. | Tampered, injected or silently modified brain content |
| Skill safety | Quarantine pipeline and skill-review before any skill reaches production | Malicious, insecure or low-quality skills reaching child brains |
| Access control | Four-tier content tagging with pre-filter enforcement at the database layer | Wrong people receiving wrong content in AI responses |
| Audit trail | Per-query logging to named individual, mandatory source citation on every response | Unattributed AI output, untraceable decisions, APRA CPS 230 non-compliance |
| Incident response | Four documented incident scenarios with detection, response and remediation steps | Uncoordinated or delayed response to knowledge poisoning, exfiltration or injection events |
Connected Systems
Client Product
Axiom Intelligence System
The client-facing product pitch deck. What clients see: the problem, what Axiom is, how it works, trust and compliance, and getting started.
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Methodology Deck
Master Brain Pitch Deck
The technical and commercial overview for partners and resellers. Architecture, compliance mapping, trust model and partnership model.
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Client Operations
Brain Health Report
The monthly health dashboard for an active Axiom deployment. Knowledge freshness, query confidence, governance posture and adoption metrics.
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Internal Operations
Fleet Dashboard
Prosperity Path internal view. All active client brains in one place: health scores, alerts, review activities and renewal pipeline.
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Technical Reference
Architecture Diagram
Five layers working together: knowledge, skills, agents, governance and retrieval. With the skill pack distribution model and data flow.
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Full Documentation
Master Brain Overview (Confluence)
Complete technical reference including all governance policies, security framework and implementation specifications. Internal access required.
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Full Technical Documentation
The complete Master Brain reference: governance policies, security framework, retrieval layer spec, compliance evidence framework and implementation guides. Requires Prosperity Path Confluence access.