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# maturity-engine
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2026-08-28 22:34:02 +02:00
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**Computes, deterministically, how far a thing has progressed against declared
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criteria and submitted evidence — and keeps the history of that progression.**
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An Engine in the NetKingdom security layer model. Given the same criteria and the
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same evidence it returns the same level; that property is what makes it an engine
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rather than an opinion.
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> **gate-house judges and proposes. maturity-engine computes and remembers.**
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It exists because NetKingdom is full of maturity that nothing owns — the Canon's
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ASM-0…ASM-6 ladder, the layer model's conformance states and gap register,
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ops-warden's delegated lanes, kings-guard's advisory-until-gaps-close posture,
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the State Hub's DoX quality debt — and because `gate-house` was catalogued as
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owning conformance review with no engine to act through, the same defect
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kings-guard found for containment.
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**Guardrail:** a maturity level must never gate a decision directly. If a level
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determines an outcome it reaches `access-engine` as an input claim, never by a
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consumer branching on a fetched level. Compiled data that determines an outcome
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is still deciding.
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Maturity here is graded, evidence-based, open-ended, and revisable — levels can
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fall when evidence expires. The closed, binary, replay-proof state machine of an
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approval belongs to `approval-engine`; the two engines are deliberate opposites.
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See [INTENT.md](INTENT.md).
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