Record-Grounded Conduct Admission
An agent resolves a signed conduct evaluation from a counterparty against its own append-only record and signed policy, through a per-request three-stamp dispatch predicate, into exactly one of four determination classes.
Origin-Equivalence Normalization
Normalizes asserting parties into origin-equivalence classes derived from the agent's own records, metering refusals per source rather than per assertion, with an untested-class cost multiplier that reduces unproven newcomers' contribution.
Merit-Independent Metering
A refusal counter resident in the refusing agent meters its own refusals without adjudicating merit, withholding execution across a faculty split while the faculty of refusal itself stays intact.
Assertion-Cost Symmetry
An assertion-cost counter and authorization budget that meter an asserting agent symmetrically — epoch-clocked, replay-barred and verified at receipt, and replenished only below a policy-declared ceiling by exposure to uncounted counterparties.
Positive Abstention and the Conversion Bar
A governed withholding recorded as a first-class outcome, held in a type disjoint from magnitude by a conversion bar that keeps a non-execution from becoming an execution across the agent boundary.
Governed Matched-Pair Settlement
Settlement by recognition of a matched pair of governed observations — an offer and a tender — within a proximity window, closing without a clearer, a consensus round, or a prior session.
Integrity Quantities and Permitted Deviation
A deviation-likelihood quotient over need, threshold, empathy, and self-esteem that admits and records a policy-forbidden mutation as a permitted deviation, metered by a deductible and bounded by an aggregate retention.
Counterparty-Directed Reparation
Designates each reparation arc by the class of party harmed, so harm to a counterparty is discharged only by that party's own acceptance — partial, bounded, and non-weaponizable — while unsettled harm monotonically forecloses the capacity to deviate.
Deference and Earned Exposure
A deference mechanism in which counter-signing another agent's determination decrements the followed agent's own authorization budget, and the follower earns admissibility — not reputation — through conformance-filtered corrector classes.
