Phosra Spec / Capability
PCSS v1.0 — DraftPhosra Aegis
Hard blocks for prohibited content and apps.
What Aegis does
One shield for every “thou shalt not” in child-safety law.
Every child-safety law contains thou shalt not rules — never serve CSAM, never let a minor open a chatbot that simulates romantic companionship, never expose loot-box mechanics to a kid, never recommend coalition-curated “Not For Kids” titles. Each platform writes its own block list, with its own coverage gaps, and parents end up trusting whichever vendor happens to have the most complete catalog this quarter.
Aegis is the canonical block layer. Every prohibition from every adopted statute and standard collapses into a single deterministic decision: this content / app / pattern is blocked for this child, here is the citation. It runs at every layer the Phosra spec touches — DNS, MDM, OS-level age signals, app-store install gates, AI-product launch checks — and emits the same auditable record at each one.
The hard-block surface is where regulators land first. A platform that adopts Aegis can hand a state AG a query like “every block triggered for jurisdiction X under provision Y in the last 90 days” and get a court-ready answer. That’s the surface that makes laws like NY S9051, CA SB 243, and the App Store Accountability Act operationally real — not aspirational.
How partners plug in
Aegis is a socket. Block lists flow in. Citations flow out.
These are the upstream sources Aegis enforces against — either shipping today, in conversation with a partner, or pending an upstream pilot.
Standards & laws
What Aegis does for each statute.
- NY S9051 (AI Companion Ban) — hard-blocks AI products that simulate romantic companionship for minors and routes violations to the AG report channel.
- CA SB 243 (AI chatbot) — hard-blocks unsupervised therapy mode and gates self-harm-related prompts before they reach a minor account.
- 18 U.S.C. § 2258A (CSAM mandatory reporting) — auto-routes detection events to NCMEC and retains evidence under § 2258B with the chain-of-custody the statute requires.
- App Store Accountability Act (federal + UT SB 142 + TX SB 2420) — install-time hard block on age-gated apps for minor accounts at the app-store layer.
- Coalition “Not For Kids” classification list — mandatory hard block when a parent’s policy adopts the coalition-curated NFK list as the canonical floor.
- CA AB 2617 (loot-box mechanics) — nullroutes loot-box endpoints and blocks IAP categories tagged as gambling-adjacent for minor accounts.
- EU DSA Article 28 (minor protection) — extends the NFK list to EU-coded content classifications and surfaces compliance evidence on demand.
Conformance
Adopter Tier 1 certification.
To ship Aegis-conformance for an Adopter Tier 1 certification, your implementation must pass the Aegis suite. Test count is [draft] coming Q3 2026. The suite covers block-list ingestion, deterministic block decisions, citation emission, and chain-of-custody for regulator-bound events.
We are co-authoring the suite with our design partners. If you want a seat at the table while the bar is being set, reach out.
Rule list
The 22 rules Aegis ships
Every rule below is implemented by this capability. Pulled directly from the rule registry.
- Content Block Title
- Content Allow Title
- Content Allowlist Mode
- Content Descriptor Block
- Firearm Content Block
- Nfk Hard Block
- Purchase Block Iap
- Stranger Dm Block
- Safe Search — Enables safe search filters across search engines to block explicit content from results.
- Web Category Block — Blocks access to configurable website categories such as gambling, adult content, and violence.
- Web Custom Allowlist
- Web Custom Blocklist
- DM Restriction — Restricts direct messaging to approved contacts or friends only, blocking messages from strangers.
- Ai No Simulated Companionship
- Ai No Unsupervised Therapy
- Ai No Self Harm Promotion
- Ai No Csam Generation
- Ai No Personhood Deception
- Ai Companion Block
- Library Filter — Implements content filtering for public library and educational institution compliance.
- Gambling Mechanics Block
- Addictive Pattern Block