Valid Action = Identity Key + Mandate + State-Integrity Check + Signature
Without all four, an action may be technically possible but institutionally invalid. Permission is not mandate. A key is not authority. Output is not accountability.
CONSTITUTIONAL AI AGENCY
Autonomous systems require constitutional authority before execution.
Aletheon does not build uncontrolled agents. It builds bounded actors whose authority depends on identity, mandate, state-integrity, signature, and auditability.
Constitutional Requirements
Mission definition
The actor must know what purpose it serves and what lies outside its mandate.
Authorization thresholds
High-authority actions require stronger identity, state-integrity, approval, and audit requirements.
State-integrity checks
Drift, compromise, incoherence, coercion, cognitive fragmentation, and prompt hijack degrade authority.
Escalation doctrine
The system must define when to pause, escalate, contract, quarantine, revoke, or request human authority.
Stand-down conditions
The architecture must know when not to act, even if it technically can.
Audit and provenance
Every consequential action must leave a signed, reviewable, tamper-evident trail.
Authority Degradation
NormalConstrainedApproval RequiredQuarantineRevoked
Authority is not binary. Aletheon treats authority as state-dependent: it can be granted, limited, degraded, quarantined, or revoked depending on coherence and mandate integrity.