Primary technical disclosure
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.Costless Rehearsal of Repair: Speculative Evaluation of Acknowledgment Artifacts and Restorative Mutations Inside the Non-Executing Cognitive Mode How a governed agent rehearses repair inside the non-executing cognitive mode, speculatively evaluating candidate acknowledgment artifacts and restorative mutations against the causal set of a deviation quantity while the authorization gate stands withheld, committing no state change and decrementing no authorization budget until a single candidate is selected and issued.Delegated Acceptance Authorization: Discharging a Reparation Arc Through a Counterparty's Delegate or Principal Delegated acceptance authorization admits a reparation acceptance determination produced by a delegate or principal of the bound counterparty as the second governed observation of the matched pair discharging an other-directed reparation arc, on a governed observation carrying that counterparty's own authority credential and continuity hash and verified under the successor-continuity test.Capping Pending Reparation Arcs: The Outstanding-Arc Bound, Untendered Marking, and the Refusal-Meter Exemption A policy-declared outstanding-arc bound caps the pending undischarged other-directed reparation arcs an agent holds against one counterparty, marks further arcs untendered while they keep accumulating in the retention register, and exempts refusals of unsolicited reparation tenders from the refusal meter.Commitment-Conditioned Reparation Acceptance: A Counterparty-Evaluated Conformity Determination Within an Epoch-Count Observation Interval How a commitment-conditioned reparation acceptance defers completion of a matched pair until the conditioning counterparty evaluates a later conduct record for conformity, inside an observation interval denominated in successor epochs of the obligated agent's own hash chain.Reparation Containment Suspension: Holding an Arc's Accumulation While a Scope Partition Stands Contained Reparation containment suspension withholds the reparation acknowledgment artifact from a scope partition under a standing containment determination, appends a suspension record naming the arc, the partition, and that determination, and holds the arc's contribution to the accumulation tested against the aggregate retention at the amount then standing.Structured Inquiry to the Principal on Retention Foreclosure: Disclosing an Agent's Foreclosed Permission Condition Without Supplying an Override Path How a persistent semantic agent notifies its principal that its aggregate retention has foreclosed the permission condition governing deviation, using a structured inquiry that enumerates the accumulated amount and every pending reparation arc while supplying no discharge path and writing no authorization gate.
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.Insurance Claims Networks: Discharging Harm to the Counterparty That Holds It How autonomous insurance claims agents can direct repair at the counterparty that actually carried the loss: reparation arcs bound at creation to a harmed party's identity primitive, dischargeable only by that party's own acceptance, with the capacity to deviate foreclosed where unsettled harm exceeds the declared aggregate retention.When the Repair Goes to the Wrong Party Why an agent that repairs itself after harming someone else can leave the harmed party unaddressed, and how the disclosed architecture designates a reparation obligation by the class of party harmed, binds it to a counterparty identity, and discharges it upon that party's own acceptance.
Applications · specific
Card Network Chargebacks: Counterparty-Directed Remedy in Practice How card network chargeback systems direct remedy at the harmed cardholder, and how Adaptive Query's counterparty-directed reparation arcs diverge: the deviating agent cannot close its own case, and harm left unsettled past a declared aggregate retention forecloses its permission to deviate.Stripe Disputes: Refunds and Counterparty-Directed Repair How refund and dispute tooling of the kind Stripe Disputes publicly describes sits alongside counterparty-directed reparation for autonomous agents: reparation arcs bound to an identity primitive, discharged only by the harmed party's own acceptance, with retention foreclosure once accumulation exceeds a declared bound.Merchant Protection and Repair Owed to the Harmed Party How Shopify merchant protection and chargeback protection generally compare with a counterparty-directed reparation architecture in which harm to a merchant is discharged only by that merchant's own acceptance, bounded by a deductible and a retention register.Signifyd: Chargeback Guarantees and Repair to the Harmed Party How Signifyd's publicly described chargeback guarantee model for ecommerce fraud and abuse converges with, and diverges from, an agent architecture in which reparation is designated by the class of party harmed and discharged only by that party's own acceptance.Riskified: Approval Guarantees and Who Bears the Harm How Riskified's publicly described chargeback guarantee model for ecommerce fraud decisioning compares with a filed counterparty-directed reparation architecture in which harm to a named party is discharged only by that party's own acceptance.
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..
