gate-house asked kings-guard to check the posture/maturity boundary,
with the concern that a second grading authority would be the same shape
of mistake as a second decision point. Its proposed line was volatile
current state against slow progression.
Answered with a proposed revision, KG-DEC-2026-002, argued in
docs/PostureMaturityBoundary.md (KG-COM-0001).
Volatility is an observation about data, not a definition. It fails at
both edges and, more importantly, describes the two things without
partitioning them — every case left to argument is a route by which a
second grading authority arrives.
The discriminator is already in the statute. §9.5 requires maturity to
return the same level from the same criteria and evidence and calls that
determinism the thing that makes it an Engine; §3.3 makes inference Staff
by construction. So: recompute against the same criteria and evidence —
must get the same answer, it is maturity and belongs in an engine; cannot
promise the same answer, it is posture and belongs in Staff.
It is one rule read from both sides. §9.5 already says a criterion that
cannot be evaluated by rule is not yet a criterion; the mirror is that a
judgment that can be evaluated by rule is not posture but a criterion in
the wrong repository.
kings-guard accepts the constraint this puts on its own side: capability
readiness is not an input to posture, since feeding a deterministic value
into a non-deterministic one would blur the boundary from our door. That
also answers the incident-dependency half of the intake.
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The standard moved v0.4 -> v0.6. All four findings from our v0.4 review
were adopted in v0.5, and v0.6 went further on two of them.
§11 now requires a machine-readable declaration — prose cannot
distinguish a declaration from a transcribed review. We had none.
Added layer.yaml (form adapted from ops-warden's reference
implementation), scripts/check_layer_conformance.py, and
tests/test_layer_conformance.py.
The check makes our central claim mechanical rather than asserted: no
direct Tooling client in src/. The test exercises the negative case on a
synthetic tree, so it fails if the checker goes blind. pyyaml is added as
a DEV dependency only — `dependencies = []` is load-bearing for the §5
claim and stays empty.
Adopted from v0.6:
- containment is no longer ours (§9.2). Actuation is an Engine concept,
unowned and held at zero; kings-guard proposes containment and never
performs it. The register row is now a dependency, not our gap.
- observation is scoped to Staff-reachable sources, with identity and
secret observation pending — our finding 1, adopted near-verbatim.
- access-engine DECLINED the authentication-evidence gap; owner is now
the identity layer plus audit-core, reproposed and unassented.
- §11 blocked-clean recorded, with the rule that it must not rank below
conforming — our finding 2.
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The standard moved v0.1 -> v0.4 after our assent. Reviewed; assent stands
unchanged. §9.1/§9.2/§9.3 adopt the KG-DEC-2026-001 finding and generalise
it estate-wide, and §12 now states that an unsatisfiability finding is a
success of the conformance loop.
Docs repointed at v0.4 (INTENT, SCOPE, AdjacentSystemBoundary, the
architecture spec note). KG-DEC-2026-001 still cites v0.1 deliberately —
it records what was assented to at the time.
INTENT gap table reshaped to §5.3's field names (capability,
intended_owner, blocked_on, review) so one register can hold both kinds,
with review dates set to 2026-11-28, and marked explicitly as unowned
capabilities rather than §5.3 declared contacts — kings-guard makes no
Tooling contact and is Conforming under §11.
Four findings sent to gate-house: §9.1 not carried through to the
observation claim; §13 conflating declared contacts with unowned
capabilities ahead of the maturity-engine migration; §9.6's unstated
consequence for posture (suppression biases posture optimistic and our
confidence score cannot express the doubt); and disclosure that §12's
fourth step is unstaffed while the pilot remains fixture-only.
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Answers gate-house intake KG-IN-0001 / GH-DEC-2026-001 against the
NetKingdom Security Layer Model v0.1.
Assent to all three points, recorded as KG-DEC-2026-001:
- kings-guard declares layer Staff in INTENT.md;
- "control plane" released to the Engine layer across INTENT, SCOPE,
README, AGENTS and the adjacent-system boundary;
- the posture asymmetry adopted as a repo invariant — already satisfied,
every EffectorRequest carries an explicit authority_boundary.
Boundary corrections: key-cape and OpenBao are Tooling, so their evidence
is routed through user-engine/access-engine and secrets-engine rather
than read directly.
Finding on the invited challenge to §5: do not weaken the binding rule,
but §4 catalogs kings-guard as owning containment while no engine exposes
a containment surface — the charter is currently undischargeable. Two
rulings requested of gate-house. Three engine gaps declared in INTENT.md.
Residual handed off as KG-IN-0002 (vocabulary sweep of the architecture
spec).
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