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Telic Fields HI-3 — Context Capacity, Stop, and Escalation

Parent lineage: The Telic Field Papers

Source artifacts

I.3 technical branch

• I.3 context capacity, stop, and escalation specification
• Context capacity and authority degradation matrix
• Minimum context by action matrix
• Stop, escalation, and recovery matrix

H.3 public branch

• H.3 When the System Should Stop

Gate, validation, and export

• HI-3 gate review
• HI-3 validation report
• HI-3 negative conformance fixtures
• HI-3 validation results
• HI-3 validation runner
• HI-3 context-capacity export

Positive demonstrations and records

• PD-1 token-rich but standing-poor
• PD-2 small context adequate
• PD-3 privacy-preserving capacity
• PD-4 overload authority degradation
• PD-5 missing correction stop
• PD-6 participant-load staging
• PD-7 competent escalation
• PD-8 context reconstitution recovery
• High-consequence context demand
• Reversible-draft context demand

I.3 candidate schemas

• Ten candidate I.3 schemas
• Complete HI-3 intake package

The complete package passed its internal SHA-256 manifest before intake. The ZIP hash is fba3d789707472229797a921d626337b6cf4d0f97d508b8960c262a05564f599.

Working focus

HI-3 completes I.3 and H.3 as a phase-locked pass. I.3 treats context capacity as multidimensional rather than token-based: standing coverage, contradiction and uncertainty, semantic resolution, temporal/provenance capacity, privacy, participant load, overload, capacity debt, authority degradation, stop, escalation, and recovery. H.3 translates those rules into a public account of legitimate stopping.

The demonstrations distinguish token-rich from standing-rich context, permit small context for narrow reversible action, treat privacy-preserving omission as possible capacity improvement, degrade authority from execute to recommend under overload, stop when correction is missing, stage disclosure under participant load, escalate to a competent outer loop, and restore only supported authority after reconstitution.

The package reports ten candidate schemas, eight positive demonstrations, twelve detected negative patterns, an independent context-capacity export, and zero technical/public contradictions. These are structural and internal semantic validations, not clinical assessment, legal authority, production security, cryptographic enforcement, scientific validity, or public-reader comprehension.

Gate and boundaries

HI-3 is complete at v0.1 with a PASS WITH CONDITIONS gate. Remaining conditions include domain-specific materiality thresholds, authenticated capacity evidence, tool-level authority enforcement, privacy-preserving escalation, delay-harm analysis, strategic-overload safeguards, participant-load privacy, and independent reader testing.

The I.3 specification, H.3 page, schemas, demonstrations, and capacity export remain working/candidate artifacts. They do not become canonical or production specifications by installation.

Roadmap transition

The next paired pass is HI-4 — Temporal Standing, Commitment, and Succession: I.4 Temporal Standing, Commitment, and Succession Specification alongside H.4 The Present Is Not the Whole Timeline.