peripheral-autonomy.md

Peripheral Autonomy

Status: Beta — extends distributed decisions hierarchy.

Purpose

Avoid over-centralization. Represent autonomous execution hierarchy:

Control Center
        ↓
Regional / Site Coordinator
        ↓
Fleet / Swarm Coordinator
        ↓
Robot / Entity Runtime
        ↓
Device / Reflex Controller

Types

• PeripheralNode, EdgeCoordinator, LocalAutonomyNode, RegionalCoordinator

Integration

Entity graph, device tree, fleet, mission continuity, delegation, takeover, offline policies.

See distributed-decisions.md and cognitive-resilience-architecture.md.