Primary technical disclosure

Assertion-Cost Symmetry: Making an Accusation Cost the Accuser Assertion-cost symmetry prices every conduct evaluation artifact against the issuing agent's own authorization budget, metering accusations per origin-equivalence class with epoch-bound attestation and recipient-side verification, and applying the cost without any adjudication of merit.

Secondary technical

Withheld Delegating Faculty, Preserved Direct Execution How a governed agent withholds only its faculty to delegate an action class while preserving direct execution, when a residue-surcharged accepted determination drives its deviation quantity across the policy bound.Depth-Propagated Harm Inheritance Across a Delegation Chain How the Adaptive Query architecture propagates a returned harm-recording field class up a multi-hop delegation chain so harm caused by a sub-delegate at any depth is inherited and priced at every delegating agent above it.Co-Signature Conditioning of Restoration Authority How a governed autonomous agent meters its own principal's restoration authority and conditions a repeat return of the authorization gate on a co-signature from a governance address named in the principal's own policy.The Anti-Evasion Charge on Governance-Address Removal How the Adaptive Query governance architecture prices, rather than honors, an autonomous agent's attempt to drop a named governance address in order to evade a subsisting co-signature requirement on restoration authority.The Progressive Issuance Decrement How progressive issuance decrement prices the breadth of an AI agent's accusations by making the authorization-budget decrement rise with the count of distinct recipient origin-equivalence classes addressed within a metering window.

Applications · general

Report Abuse and Takedown Flooding: Making the Accusation Cost the Accuser How assertion-cost symmetry prices takedown notices and abuse reports against the reporter's own authorization budget, metering report flooding per origin-equivalence class of recipients without adjudicating whether any notice is true.

Terminology

acknowledgment artifact an artifact issued by a semantic agent referencing accepted determinations and enumerating action classes, issuance of which decrements the issuing agent's authorization budget merit-independently..assertion-cost counter a structure incremented upon issuance of a conduct evaluation artifact by the semantic agent, per origin-equivalence class of receiving parties, and attested within each issued artifact..authorization budget a quantity gating dispatch of actions by the semantic agent within the action space, in units identical to those gating dispatch..dynamic agent hash chain a sequence in which each successor epoch is generated from a prior epoch under an update rule incorporating an unpredictability contribution and a volatile salt, advancing a metering interval independently of any clock..