Evidence layer
Probative surfaces brought into scope by this page
This page does more than point to governance files. It is also anchored to surfaces that make observation, traceability, fidelity, and audit more reconstructible. Their order below makes the minimal evidence chain explicit.
- 01Canon and scopeDefinitions canon
- 02Response authorizationQ-Layer: response legitimacy
Definitions canon
/canon.md
Opposable base for identity, scope, roles, and negations that must survive synthesis.
- Makes provable
- The reference corpus against which fidelity can be evaluated.
- Does not prove
- Neither that a system already consults it nor that an observed response stays faithful to it.
- Use when
- Before any observation, test, audit, or correction.
Q-Layer: response legitimacy
/response-legitimacy.md
Surface that explains when to answer, when to suspend, and when to switch to legitimate non-response.
- Makes provable
- The legitimacy regime to apply before treating an output as receivable.
- Does not prove
- Neither that a given response actually followed this regime nor that an agent applied it at runtime.
- Use when
- When a page deals with authority, non-response, execution, or restraint.
Interpretive false neighbor
An interpretive false neighbor is a term, page, offer, source, metric or doctrine that appears close to another element, but whose fusion would produce a false representation.
The false neighbor is not necessarily a lexical error. It may be genuinely close in semantic space. The problem appears when that proximity is treated as equivalence, causality or authorization to infer.
Risk examples
- Reading
llms.txtas full AI governance. - Reading citability as interpretive fidelity.
- Reading AI visibility as recommendation.
- Reading causal context as proof of service.
- Reading an intended consequence as a result guarantee.
Rule
When an interpretive false neighbor is identified, the response must distinguish the two elements before comparing them. Proximity may be mentioned. Equivalence must not be inferred.