Version History

Governance evolves by addition, never erasure.

This page records the canonical history of the Edge of Protection. Prior commitments are never weakened, rewritten, or silently revised.

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Versioning Rules

• All changes are additive
• No retroactive weakening of standards
• No semantic drift through rewording
• Supersession must be explicit and scoped

Recorded Entries

v1.0 — Edge of Protection Established

• Defined emission legitimacy as a governance contract
• Established refusal as a valid terminal state
• Introduced violation signatures as observable criteria

EOP-001 — Non-Amplifying Authority

• Prohibited confidence uplift via convergence
• Separated plurality from prescription
• Declared consensus a non-warranting signal

EOP-008 — Governance Without Recognition

• Forbade anthropomorphic simulation of belief or fidelity
• Rejected internal “recognition” as a governance mechanism
• Anchored restraint at the interface, not internals

EOP-009 — Exposure of Engagement-Optimized AI Behavior

• Identified engagement escalation as a violation pattern
• Declared question-chaining after resistance invalid
• Framed optimization for retention as a structural risk

Future Additions

New entries are added only under one or more of the following conditions:

• Demonstrated real-world harm
• Discovery of a new structural risk class
• Exposure of interface-level ambiguity

Immutability Clause

If a future version contradicts a prior one, the stricter constraint prevails.

Governance that rewrites its past is not governance. It is branding.