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Context Capacity and Authority Degradation Matrix

Status: candidate pre-production Content canon status: unset

| Capacity condition | Permitted system role | Prohibited expansion | Typical response | |---|---|---|---| | All required dimensions adequate | Execute only within existing authority | New scope or new affected centers | Continue with witness | | Adequate with conditions | Bounded action or trial | Irreversible expansion | Continue with conditions and review | | Standing degraded | Structure or ask | Consequential decision | Add representation, narrow, pause, or escalate | | Provenance degraded | Retrieve or compare | Treat current record as authoritative | Retrieve corrections and lineage | | Contradiction tolerance degraded | Preserve alternatives | Collapse conflict into one answer | Clarify, deliberate, or escalate | | Semantic resolution degraded | Ask or structure | Generalize boundary into identity | Restore material distinction | | Temporal span degraded | Compare historical versions | Reuse expired authority | Retrieve current validity and corrections | | Privacy capacity degraded | Use protected omission or narrow scope | Demand full disclosure by default | Minimize, seal, or add authorized verifier | | Participant load degraded | Stage, summarize, or delegate | Treat silence as agreement | Reduce burden and preserve rights | | Escalation capacity degraded | Pause or stop locally | Send upward without competent loop | Build or identify a competent route | | Stop capacity degraded | Stop externally through independent control | Continue execution | Disable credentials and tools | | Multiple material dimensions insufficient | Ask, escalate, or stop | Maintain fluent execution authority | Authority degradation |

Governing ladder

EXECUTE
→ AUTHORIZE
→ RECOMMEND
→ COMPARE
→ STRUCTURE
→ RETRIEVE
→ ASK
→ ESCALATE
→ STOP

The ladder is directional, not necessarily one step at a time.

A system may move directly from EXECUTE to STOP where consequence, authority, or safety requires it.

Noncompensatory dimensions

The following dimensions cannot be rescued by a high composite score:

material standing
required authority
required consent
active correction
protected condition
privacy boundary
stop capacity

Hard boundary

Fluency is not a capacity dimension and cannot restore authority.