Core principles

Capability is not authority.

The system is designed around six principles that continue to apply as capabilities change.

01

Human agency

Consequential choices remain attributable to people or an existing authorised system.

02

Canonical identity

One Canonical Person authority prevents competing identity truths and cross-person leakage.

03

Evidence before promotion

Built is not Verified. Verified is not Live. Status moves only on direct evidence.

04

Privacy by design

Purpose, consent, minimisation, isolation and deletion are designed with the feature, not added after it.

05

Safety stays independent

Personalisation, intelligence and commercial objectives cannot silently weaken Safety.

06

Recovery is part of execution

Duplicate, interruption, restart and unknown-outcome behaviour are treated as normal engineering cases.