Failsafe Architecture
Failsafe prevents silent continuation, evidence-free escalation, and category drift in governance claims.
This concept is part of Decision Integrity and defines how systems maintain or restore execution legitimacy under changing conditions.
Core failsafe rules
Fail-closed identity
A decision without a complete identity definition does not exist in a compliant system.
No silent continuation
If legitimacy expires or drift is detected, continuation is forbidden until halt, suspension, or re-legitimation occurs.
No escalation without witness growth
Claims cannot move from local to systemic or from hypothesis to conclusion without additional witnesses.
Counterevidence requirement
Every classification must include at least one alternative explanation, otherwise status remains BLOCKED or PROVISIONAL.
Confidence is non-dispositive
Confidence values do not repair missing evidence and do not override invariants.
Regime separation
Analysis does not silently become policy, intent attribution, or legal conclusion.
Prevents
Compliance illusion, narrative overfitting, false causality, authority self-reinforcement, and silent drift continuation.