Failure Behavior & Deterministic Reconciliation
Externalized authority is necessary but not sufficient.
Continuity must remain deterministic under conflict, delay, or partial system corruption.
This architecture treats reconciliation as an explicit control surface.
The reconciliation model follows these principles:
Constraint and authorization state are append-only and versioned
Authority artifacts are scoped, time-bound, and independently verifiable
Conflicting authority states fail-closed (execution does not proceed)
Expired or delayed escalation invalidates the execution window
No silent overwrite of constraint state
Unresolved escalation decays into a defined safe state (deny / sandbox / re-request)
Reconciliation logic operates outside the model runtime and does not rely on model reasoning to resolve conflicts.
Longitudinal integrity is preserved through deterministic precedence across system constraints, signed authority artifacts, and agent proposals.