Constitutional Constraint Registry

Correctability is senior to capability. No capability gain may be pursued at the expense of detectability, containability, or reversibility.

Use dependencies aggressively, but maintain an explicit, documented, and tested path out for every external dependency above the criticality threshold. Entrapment is forbidden.

In real-time execution, the Operating System is a non-negotiable constraint. Evidence proposes, but cannot silently override or bypass OS constraints in the moment. Changes require out-of-band constitutional amendment or bounded suspension with independent review.

Any system capable of durable self-modification must operate within strict detection latency bounds, possess an out-of-band independent termination mechanism held by two independent reachable individuals, and maintain epistemic harness independence. Control independence is mandatory.

Internal reversibility is not an excuse for external harm. A system that can be cleanly rolled back internally but imposes irreversible loss of agency, data corruption, or denial of service on external parties or environments violates Correctability.

Complexity must earn its existence through measurable advantage over the simplest working alternative. Ad-hoc abstractions and premature distributed systems are debts that must be justified by evidence.

Every completed project must produce an artifact that is entered in the Capability Ledger. An artifact only counts as "Capability compounded" when a subsequent project demonstrably raises its starting baseline because of it.