Primary technical disclosure

Counterparty-Directed Reparation: Repair Owed to the Party Actually Harmed Counterparty-directed reparation binds an AI agent's reparation arc to the identity primitive of the party its recorded deviation harmed, so discharge requires that party's own acceptance determination rather than self-assessment, elapsed time, or an appointed arbiter.

Secondary technical

The Costly Acknowledgment Artifact How the costly acknowledgment artifact makes a semantic agent spend forward authorization budget to acknowledge harm, with a re-issuance cap and recipient-held acceptance gating full restoration.Completion by Non-Worsening Re-Encounter A governed-agent authorization mechanism that returns an authorization gate from the provisional granting state to full granting when a harmed origin-equivalence class re-encounters the agent without increasing the deviation quantity.Partial Reparation Acceptance and the Residual Arc Partial reparation acceptance lets a harmed counterparty accept a stated portion of an other-directed reparation arc while the unaccepted balance becomes a residual arc dischargeable only by a further matched pair, with a conservation invariant fixing the total.Dual-Lock Escrow of the Discharge Itself How a dual-lock escrow governs the discharge of a counterparty-directed reparation arc, making removal of the accumulated amount from the retention register atomic against matched-pair completion with no third-party escrow agent.Per-Integrity-Scope Aggregate Retention and OR-Firing Foreclosure Per-integrity-scope aggregate retention in Adaptive Query splits an AI agent's reparation accumulator into an interpersonal and a global budget, each tested independently, with either exceeding its threshold firing an irreversible foreclosure of the permission to deviate.

Applications · general

Automated Consumer Redress: Repair Directed at the Party Harmed How automated consumer redress changes when the compensation obligation is bound to the harmed party's own identity and can be discharged only by that party's acceptance, rather than by a pooled fund, an internal sign-off, or an appointed administrator.

Terminology

other-directed reparation arc a reparation arc carrying an arc designation field of other-directed value and a counterparty binding field carrying the resolving counterparty's identity primitive, each written at creation and thereafter unmodified..reparation arc a forward corrective structure created upon a recorded violation and contributing unrectified dissonance while undischarged, reversing nothing and discharged only by a restorative act..restorative mutation a scoped mutation appended to the append-only lineage field, comprising at least an anchored reference to the entry recording the deviation addressed and a corrective act, that entry being neither removed nor modified..unaddressed reparation arc a reparation arc carrying an arc designation field of unaddressed value and no counterparty binding field, accumulated in the retention register at a declared multiple not less than unity..