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Operator Transfer, Model Succession, Retirement, and Residual State Matrix

Status: candidate pre-production Content canon status: unset

| Change | What may transfer | What requires renewed review | |---|---|---| | Operator transfer | Assets, records, bounded mandate | Nontransferable consent, open incidents, jurisdiction | | Provider change | Service configuration, approved schemas | Provider constitution, memory, training reuse, refusal policy | | Infrastructure migration | Encrypted records and tools | Custody, location, deletion, access controls | | Model patch | Limited defect correction | Material behavior or policy change | | Model replacement | Reviewed records and constraints | Runtime grant, capability, failure modes, notice | | Fine-tune change | Declared specialized behavior | Source lineage, role, protected conditions | | Provider model swap | Interface and workflow | Constitution, provenance, tool behavior, version identity | | Rollback | Prior reviewed model and grants | Current corrections and incidents must still apply | | Suspension | Witness and open claims | Conditions for restart | | Retirement | Archival witness and named custody | Residual memory, credentials, appeals, compensation | | Shutdown | Nothing active by default | Every surviving obligation and record class |

Succession minimum

prior model
successor model
reason
capability changes
behavior changes
policy changes
authority review
consent and notice review
compatibility
migration
rollback
retirement
residual state
open obligations
verification

Residual-state inventory

active memory
archival records
embeddings
caches
logs
credentials
tool connections
open incidents
appeals
compensation
correction debt
successor systems
custodian
retention and deletion schedule

Governing principles

Operational continuity is not permission continuity. Model succession is a new constitutional event.

The authority to stop acting is not the authority to abandon what remains owed.