Primary technical disclosure

Merit-Independent Metering: Pricing an Agent’s Refusals Without Adjudicating Merit Merit-independent metering prices a semantic agent's refusals with a self-resident refusal counter that withholds the agent's own authorization to act, without any party adjudicating whether a refusal was well founded.

Secondary technical

The Prospective Narrowing Bar and Deflection Scoring How the prospective narrowing bar scores a deflection event and increments a semantic agent's own refusal counter when a successor signed policy object excludes a declared value or contracts a value-scope tuple while an implicated conduct evaluation artifact remains undetermined.The Continuous-Function Cost Multiplier How a continuous-function cost multiplier prices an origin-equivalence class contribution to the refusal counter as a monotone continuous function of recorded severance events, instead of a fixed value applied upon a threshold designation.The Renunciation Record: Relinquishing an Adopted Value on the Record How a renunciation record lets an adopting semantic agent relinquish an adopted value outside abandonment and orphaning, lowering its anti-rollback floor for one adopted-value alias while incrementing its own refusal counter by a policy-declared renunciation multiple not less than unity.Lapse Scoring During Pendency How lapse scoring treats the lapse of a co-signed mutual admission compact during a pending conduct evaluation artifact as an exclusion of the reciprocal value-scope tuple, incrementing the refusal counter of the party that declined to admit a successor compact record.Multi-Descriptor Aggregation and Determination-Class Ordering Multi-descriptor aggregation bounds a conduct evaluation artifact carrying a plurality of conduct descriptors to at most one refusal counter increment, the contributed class being the highest-ranked determination class present under an ordering enumerated in the signed policy object in force at the recorded assertion time, while each determination produced is still appended to the agent's append-only lineage field.

Applications · general

Refusal Budgets for Machine-to-Machine APIs How merit-independent metering gives machine-to-machine APIs a refusal budget: a refusal counter that prices denial of conduct claims without arbitration, adjudication, bonds, reputation scores, or rate limiting the refusing service.

Terminology

merit-independent metering incrementing of a counter responsive to a determination class or to an issuance, without any determination being performed of whether the refusal, contraction, or issuance was well founded..non-executing cognitive mode a state in which the semantic agent conducts speculative evaluation without committing state changes to the memory field..refusal counter a structure resident in the memory field accumulating increments recorded against the semantic agent..