Primary technical disclosure

Record-Grounded Conduct Admission: Governing How an Agent Answers an Accusation Record-grounded conduct admission lets a persistent semantic agent adjudicate an accusation against its own append-only lineage field, producing one of four closed determination classes and, on acceptance, withholding its own authorization gate.

Secondary technical

Value-Scope Resolution: Testing Whether a Declared Value Is Even Implicated Value-scope resolution tests whether asserted conduct implicates any declared value before testing whether the conduct occurred, using a conjunctive action-class, scope-partition, and empathy-scope membership test over a signed policy object.The Retroactive Narrowing Bar: Why an Agent Cannot Edit Its Values After the Fact The retroactive narrowing bar binds a conduct evaluation artifact to the signed policy object in force at its recorded assertion time, through canonical-alias resolution, validity-window enclosure, revocation state as of that time, and a monotonically non-decreasing anti-rollback floor over per-alias successor indices.The Delegator Floor: A Monotone Upward Ratchet on Delegated Authority How a delegator floor field makes a delegation record a monotone upward ratchet on a delegate agent's own anti-rollback floor, with ordered attestation verification, a floor attainability bound, bounded chained propagation, and one rescission route held by the delegate.The Co-Signed Mutual Admission Compact: Two Agents Binding Each Other How two persistent semantic agents form a co-signed mutual admission compact enumerating reciprocal value-scope tuples, resolved by canonical alias under a separately maintained anti-rollback floor, with a union rule barring subtraction, deflection and lapse scoring against the narrowing party, and a bounded compact depth.The Inherited Governance Record: Fork- and Clone-Resistant Accountability The inherited governance record carries a parent-signed refusal-counter floor across every fork, clone, migration, and reconstitution of a persistent semantic agent, admitting a descendant's governed transition only upon a per-field at-or-above comparison of counter value, gate state, register contents, and recurrence count.

Applications · general

Agent Marketplaces: Handling a Complaint Against an Autonomous Seller How an autonomous seller agent answers a misconduct complaint in a multi-party agent marketplace with no adjudicating operator, using signed conduct evaluation artifacts, record-grounded admission, a closed set of determination classes, and self-imposed authorization gating.

Terminology

append-only lineage field a structure carried by the semantic agent to which entries are appended and from which entries are neither removed nor modified..authorization gate a persistent state element of the memory field governing whether the semantic agent is authorized to execute actions of an action class, and occupying at least a granting state and a withheld state..conduct evaluation artifact a signed artifact received at runtime from a party other than the principal, asserting an evaluation of conduct performed by the semantic agent itself, and comprising at least a recorded assertion time and a conduct descriptor..principal the party to which a semantic agent is bound and to which an escalation record is emitted..semantic agent an identity-bearing computational object carrying at least a memory field, an append-only lineage field, and a policy reference field..signed policy object an object resolved by canonical alias, carrying at least a declared value set, and covered by a verifiable signature..