Summary
| Layer | Operation | Typical Time |
|---|---|---|
| Glassbox | validate_input (100 chars) | ~396 ns |
| Glassbox | validate_command | ~248 ns |
| Glassbox | validate_output (100 chars) | ~215 ns |
| Ironclad | validate_binary | ~1.1 µs |
| Persona | Voice filter (clean, 100 chars) | ~3.9 µs |
| Persona | Voice filter (clean, 1000 chars) | ~11.8 µs |
| Shadow | Static analysis (10 lines) | ~7.4 ms |
| Shadow | Secrets analysis (100 lines) | ~428 µs |
| Cortex | track_edit (single) | ~85 ns |
| Cortex | detect_patterns (100 edits) | ~426 µs |
Glassbox containment adds less than 1µs per call — effectively zero overhead on any LLM pipeline where the LLM call itself takes 500ms+.

