Controlled architecture. Visible change.
The standard is a working canonical sub-standard, not certification. I keep material changes and known defects visible rather than silently smoothing them over.
Decision Authority Standard v0.2
Effective architecture date: September 22, 2026. The controlled standard governs; approved packages may impose stricter requirements; research and concept material remains informative unless incorporated through controlled change. The internal controlled document is not a public download; this page is a summary.
Research status: Pre-1.0. The Decision Authority Standard is v0.2; independent validation is not claimed.
Version historyWhat changed from v0.1 to v0.2
v0.1 · August 10, 2026
Human accountability, explicit machine permission, separate machine authority dimensions, reasoning rigor, Atomic Evaluations, human gates, escalation, override, fail-safe behavior, audit requirements, and validation.
v0.2 · September 22, 2026
Emergency Authority Envelope, evidence-driven authority contraction, evidence independence, Evidence Coverage Contract, human review validity, authority-conflict resolution, transitive and delegated authority, commit-time authority validation, cross-case systemic monitoring, and normative source precedence.
Document-control inconsistency discovered September 30, 2026 during adversarial review; resolved October 1, 2026 through correction and verification of the controlled source.
Document-control inconsistency
Finding: The controlled standard contained inconsistent version metadata. This was discovered during adversarial review on September 30, 2026: the header and change log identified Version 0.2 / September 22, 2026, while the Document Control table retained Version 0.1 / August 10, 2026.
Correction: Document Control metadata corrected to Version 0.2 / Effective date September 22, 2026, consistent with the document header and change log.
Verification: Corrected controlled artifact rendered and visually inspected after modification.
Benchmark impact: None identified.
Historical treatment: Finding retained permanently as a resolved document-control defect.
September 30, 2026 · adversarial review
Decision Authority Standard v0.2 metadata inconsistency
Finding: The controlled standard contained inconsistent version metadata. Correction: Document Control metadata corrected to Version 0.2 / Effective date September 22, 2026, consistent with the document header and change log. Verification: Corrected controlled artifact rendered and visually inspected after modification. Benchmark impact: None identified. Historical treatment: Finding retained permanently as a resolved document-control defect.
HYPOTHESIS
Architectural stability, not a passing score
Working criteria: new attacks generally map to existing constructs; serious cross-domain runs do not require a new foundational primitive; the twelve-problem hypothesis survives or is revised; disconnected patches stop accumulating; and an end-to-end reference implementation demonstrates executability.