05 · Layered governance guidance
User Canon
Activate the right level of guidance for a task without loading the full normative system into every interaction.
Designed for
Professionals and teams using AI across conversations, work surfaces and consequential workflows.
Why it exists
One giant instruction set is either too heavy for ordinary work or too weak for consequential action.
- Inconsistent behaviour across surfaces
- Weak distinction between ordinary and consequential work
- Lost traceability between lightweight guidance and full policy
How it works
User Canon flow
- Full Canon
- Semantic routing
- Relevant profile
- Surface adapter
- User task
What it does
A bounded product response
- Derives Conversation Core and the added Consequential Action Profile and Canon / Release Profile from the Full Canon
- Routes tasks semantically to the relevant additive profile
- Adapts supported profiles to conversation/work, Codex/repository and skills-packaging surfaces
- Uses progressive disclosure to keep ordinary work usable
Product relationship
Part of a wider system
Conceptual product relationships; this diagram does not claim active technical integration.
- Orchestrator can coordinate durable work under relevant profiles
- Guardian remains the separate protected decision boundary
- The Full Canon remains the normative source
Product evidence
A concise passport
- Purpose
- Activate the right level of guidance for a task without loading the full normative system into every interaction.
- Current product state
- Private formed architecture; live standalone behaviour remains untested
- Evidence basis
- Independently reviewed private static architecture and behavioural-qualification design; later packaging and runtime behaviour require fresh review.
- Human-controlled or bounded
- Guidance shapes behaviour but is not deterministic enforcement and does not itself authorize consequential action; host scan, provider/model execution and full-plugin behaviour remain untested.
Next step
Explore with the right expectation
Product is evolving to the next product version.