# Intake records

## KG-IN-0001 — Assent requested: Staff layer placement, control-plane vocabulary, and the posture asymmetry

```yaml
id: KG-IN-0001
kind: intake
title: 'Assent requested: Staff layer placement, control-plane vocabulary, and the
  posture asymmetry'
status: open
origin: cross-repo
origin_ref: gate-house GH-DEC-2026-001
priority: medium
owner: kings-guard
requested_by: gate-house
standard: net-kingdom/canon/standards/security-layer-model_v0.1.md
description: 'gate-house asks kings-guard to assent to its placement in the NetKingdom
  security layer model. (1) kings-guard is Staff — agentic and non-deterministic —
  not an Engine. Acting at runtime does not make a repository an Engine; being agentic
  makes it Staff. (2) Consequently its self-description as an adaptive security control
  plane needs revisiting: control plane is Engine-layer vocabulary (standard section
  8). This is not a demotion — it is the reason kings-guard may contain a threat only
  by calling an engine, never by reaching into OpenBao or a cluster directly (the
  binding rule, standard section 5: Staff never touches Tooling directly). (3) The
  posture contract with gate-house and its asymmetry: adaptive systems may reduce
  authority, require step-up, or request containment; they must never probabilistically
  manufacture additional authority. kings-guard publishes posture, gate-house defines
  its authority meaning, access-engine renders it. If the binding rule is impractical
  for containment in a real incident, say so — that is exactly the kind of finding
  that should change the doctrine rather than be worked around.'
created: '2026-08-28T19:30:17.201213Z'
updated: '2026-08-28T19:30:17.201213Z'
```