Operator ruling 2026-08-20. Severity no longer sets the review interval.
A check that comes back clean climbs one rung — instant, 1h, 8h, 24h,
48h, 96h, 7d, 14d, 1mo, 1q — and anything wrong drops straight back to
instant. A quarter is the ceiling. The operator may defer an instant
finding to a stated date; that is the only other way off the bottom rung.
The rung is the point: it says how stable the estate has been on that
matter, which is information severity does not carry. Volatile things get
attention automatically; quiet things stop consuming it; neither
judgement has to be made by a person who might be busy.
Escalation trigger 5 rebased onto the ladder — fourteen days at the
bottom rung, whether that is failing checks or no checks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Opaque subject ids preferred, agent identifiers where possible, operator
credentials only where necessary, and policy decisions tracked to the
responsible party so minimising the record does not cost accountability.
Zone-level privacy guarantees may raise the floor later (zone-engine).
Shrinks the population the legal basis has to cover, and inverts the
accrual: each day's records now carry less that would need erasing. The
written determination and the trigger list stay outstanding, so the
escalation is partially-answered rather than closed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The reframe is that the un-erasable set grows daily, so the decision to
take now is whether to keep manufacturing records that could never be
erased while the legal question is settled. Suggests a keyed commitment
(HMAC or per-subject salt) as a cheaper hedge than encrypt-then-hash,
since the confirmation oracle exists only because the digest is over
cleartext with no secret in it. Not sent to audit-core: the hedge is an
engineering ask and waits on the operator.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Read the repo inbox after grading, which is the wrong order and is now
recorded as such. flex-auth had answered the NetworkPolicy question on
2026-08-18 (narrow ingress, not default-deny — L3 becomes L2, critical
becomes high) and reported RISK-F-0001 fixed at 12:35 today with live 401
probes. F-0001 closes fixed and public; its escalation is withdrawn
before it was ever sent. RISK-F-0002's ordering constraint lifts with it
and its trigger-6 escalation is withdrawn.
audit-core had routed the erasure-versus-audit legal question here on
2026-08-18 asking for an owner. RISK-N-0002 was wrong to call it a note:
the remedy is not retrofittable, so the decision can only be taken early.
Promoted to RISK-F-0008, owned by this repo as regulatory intake,
escalated on trigger 2.
Accepted rapp-postgres's record format and ops-warden's typed-act
escalation vocabulary. Reading the inbox is now question zero of every
review.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
