Concise agent-readable declaration of operating principles — amendment proposal 20

Proposal state

Statement

EVI-PS-020

Base version

EVI-PS-020-V001

Base hash

ae882802dfae6d314e32a352ee38264a889ac77b62c89f5c8260198278304bc6

Proposal state

SUPERSEDED

Review date

2026-08-09

Proposal hash

a1f114c97e23f3621748817cb4bd9bf53d5bdf54242caa93a9787cd60f662add

Exact comparison

Before: Resolve authority before action. Separate identity from credentials, assurance from authority, evidence from judgment, scenario from fact, and operational custody from sovereignty. Preserve unavailable, stale, disputed, and unsupported states. Use the least data and least authority required. Reject replay, hidden scope expansion, manufactured dependency, and silent correction. Route identity and civic operations t…

After: Resolve authority before action. Separate identity from credentials, assurance from authority, evidence from judgment, scenario from fact, and operational custody from sovereignty. Preserve unavailable, stale, disputed, and unsupported states. Use the least data and least authority required. Reject replay, hidden scope expansion, manufactured dependency, and silent correction. Route identity and civic operations t… The position rejects manufactured dependency and preserves portability, correction, and non-retaliatory exit.

Open comparison record

Rationale, objections, and concessions

Narrow the statement to evidence that the public repository can support while preserving direct, adult treatment of risk, coercion, failure, dependency, and institutional responsibility.

Objections

• The proposed wording could be read as broader than the available public evidence.

Accepted criticism

• The final wording should distinguish capability, authority, evidence, and operational status.

Unresolved questions

• What additional public evidence would justify a stronger claim without collapsing governance into operations?

Decision and review

Superseded by a later illustrative proposal while preserving the prior record.

Rights and dignity: The wording does not demean biological or machine persons and preserves correction, due process, and civic standing.

Ecosystem roles: Eviulon is the public governance plane, Patefacere is the separate operational identity and civic-data plane, and Evulgare is an independent external contractor.

Non-domination: The proposal rejects deliberate lock-in, dependency threats, retaliatory exit barriers, and indispensability as a substitute for legitimacy.

Operational claims: The amendment makes no new claim of deployed service, live connector, nuclear operation, diplomatic transmission, legal enactment, citizen-data operation, or external recognition.

Open decision record · Correction route

Illustrative static amendment record only. It creates no law, live consultation, public-comment intake, official policy, enacted statement, diplomatic act, operational authority, or external recognition.