FIRST PUBLIC USE
March 20, 2026
- What it is
- The standing rule that every signal about an agent, whether a change, a failure, a departure, or a platform announcement, receives a recorded decision rather than a reaction.
- What it is not
- Not incident response and not change management. Those handle events. This handles the question of whether an authorization still holds after the event.
- The evidence it produces
- A disposition entry per signal: renewed, narrowed, suspended, retired, or accepted as-is, with a date and a name.
- Who is accountable
- The original signer where they remain in role, and an explicitly named successor where they do not.
- The examination question it answers
- This changed in March. Who decided the approval still stood, and when?