Core meaning
- Capability purpose
- Make operational permission and confirmation posture explicit rather than implicit in interfaces or agent behavior.
- Meaningful outcome
- A current, attributable policy can be evaluated before action execution and its prior versions remain inspectable.
- Boundaries — includes
- action allow/deny scope, actor/runtime scope, confirmation conditions, effect/risk classes, rule posture, activation, revision, and rollback.
- Boundaries — excludes
- communication style preferences, granting source access, establishing a standing rule, and executing an action.
- Terms and concepts
execution policy is governing System information; it is not a user-interface preference or executable action.
Interaction Contract MLEs
Change execution policy
- Actor
- The owner or explicitly delegated policy authority.
- Command / intent
- Establish or revise action-execution constraints.
- Current state
- Current policy, affected actions/actors, and requested change are available.
- Policies / invariants
- Policy changes are versioned and attributable; lower-level settings cannot bypass proposal/rule governance; absence or ambiguity fails closed for guarded effects; rollback remains possible.
- Transition
- Validate authority, evaluate the change, create a new policy version, and activate or reject it.
- Result
- An active versioned policy or reasoned rejection.
- Events / effects
- Future action invocations evaluate the new policy; material changes may require owner notification.
- Unknowns
- Universal risk classes and confirmation thresholds are not fixed by this CRD.
Rules and defaults
Rules / invariants
- Behavior preferences do not grant execution authority.
- Policy does not override mandatory proposal, rule, provenance, or audit constraints.
Recommended defaults
- Require explicit confirmation for destructive, externally visible, identity-affecting, or high-cost actions unless separately authorized.
Unknown / unresolved
- Delegation and policy inheritance precedence require later governance work.
Statement provenance
| Statement | Semantic class | Evidence status | Source / note |
|---|
| Execution permission is distinct from behavior preference and remains governed. | rule/invariant | sourced | B05. |