Core meaning
- Capability purpose
- Keep possession of content separate from permission to use it in an AI, agent, role, or other consuming context.
- Meaningful outcome
- An inspectable authorization relation states whether a named context may consider the target content.
- Boundaries — includes
- grant, target, context, scope, revocation, inspection, and authorization provenance.
- Boundaries — excludes
- retention, processing, retrieval, disclosure, inference, and general account permissions.
- Terms and concepts
allocation means eligibility for a named context, not copying, moving, guaranteed retrieval, or disclosure.
Interaction Contract MLEs
Change context allocation
- Actor
- The owner or explicitly delegated authority.
- Command / intent
- Grant or revoke a context's eligibility to use a retained target.
- Current state
- The target, context, and current allocation state are determinable.
- Policies / invariants
- No allocation is assumed; scope is explicit; revocation affects future selection; authority and change provenance are recorded; current allocations are inspectable.
- Transition
- Validate authority and scope, create or end the allocation relation, and record the new state.
- Result
- The requested allocation state is established or rejected with reason.
- Events / effects
- Retrieval and other consumers may use the allocation as an eligibility constraint.
- Unknowns
- A universal context-kind taxonomy is intentionally not fixed here.
Rules and defaults
Rules / invariants
- Retained content is unallocated unless a governing policy explicitly establishes otherwise.
- Allocation is necessary eligibility, not sufficient reason for actual use.
- Current allocations must be inspectable and removable by the authority that governs them.
Recommended defaults
- Prefer target- and context-specific grants over broad implicit grants.
Unknown / unresolved
- Time-bounded and purpose-bounded grant semantics require later profile work.
Statement provenance
| Statement | Semantic class | Evidence status | Source / note |
|---|
| No allocation is assumed; allocation is inspectable and removable. | rule/invariant | sourced | Pilot provenance P03. |
| Allocation does not itself retrieve content. | reasonable inference | derived | MLE separation from governed retrieval. |