Declared
Owner, purpose, limitations, version, license, support, data use, and requested permissions are disclosed.
Algen Ascend
Understand what
has been assessed.
ASCEND is Algen's internal maturity framework for one agent version. It describes evidence and controls so you can make a more informed adoption decision.
Maturity model
Six levels. One inspectable evidence trail.
Observable
Runs have stable identity and produce bounded, privacy-aware logs, traces, metrics, errors, latency, and usage evidence.
Statically governed
The version has a machine-readable manifest, dependency evidence, threat model, evaluations, and documented least privilege.
Runtime governed
Budgets, scopes, validation, approvals, tool and egress controls, cancellation, and failure containment are enforced during execution.
Auditable
Attributable records, provenance, signed releases, incident handling, retention, and reproducible version evidence are maintained.
Continuously assured
SLOs, continuous evaluations, adversarial testing, drift gates, recovery exercises, and independent evidence review operate over time.
Evidence domains
What the review considers.
The listing shows what was reviewed, when, and for which version. Missing evidence stays visible rather than becoming a silent assumption.
Quality
Evaluation design, failure analysis, grounding, and outcome accuracy.
Safety
Permissions, data handling, escalation, abuse controls, and human oversight.
Operations
Versioning, observability, rollback, ownership, and delivery reliability.