Simulation
Rehearse before reality.
Digital Twin environments let AetherOS plan and critique against faithful replicas. Production systems stay read-only until humans promote a change.
Twin contract
A twin is versioned state plus transition rules. Cognition runs inside the twin; Observatory records what would have happened.
State
Snapshots from approved exports or streaming read replicas.
Transitions
Simulated writes confined to twin storage — never live SoR.
Fidelity
Declare drift budgets; fail closed when twin skew exceeds limit.
Promotion
Human-gated export of plans — not automatic actuation.
Enterprise fit
Regulated teams get rehearsal without risk. The twin is where critique earns its keep.
Incident twin
Replay sanitized alerts into postmortem cognition.
Capacity twin
Stress scheduler decisions against synthetic load.
Policy twin
Validate residency and deny-lists before live connectors widen.