Authority
Who is permitted to act, approve, delegate, or refuse the proposed commitment?
Pre-Commit Governance Checkpoint
PGC01
Ensuring consequence forms only under admissible conditions.
Governance Before Consequence
Capability does not automatically authorize action.
A system may have reach, resources, intelligence, and momentum. But before action becomes consequence, the conditions for legitimate commitment must be evaluated.
PGC01 is the governance layer that asks whether authority, evidence, policy, risk, and admissibility are present before consequence is allowed to form.
Governance Domains
The Conditions Before Commitment
PGC01 evaluates the conditions that determine whether consequence can become real inside an operational environment.
Evidence
What supports the action, and is the evidence sufficient for the current context?
Policy
Does the proposed action remain aligned with governing rules, constraints, and obligations?
Risk
What happens if the action is wrong, premature, unauthorized, or irreversible?
Admissibility
Do the present conditions allow consequence to form legitimately, or must the action be held, escalated, or refused?
Commitment
If the conditions are satisfied, the system may proceed toward authorized consequence.
Governance Flow
From Request to Authorized Consequence
PGC01 evaluates the pre-commit conditions before action becomes consequence.
Core Distinction
PGC01 does not decide outcomes.
PGC01 determines whether consequence is permitted to form.
Its purpose is not control for its own sake. Its purpose is admissibility: ensuring that action, authority, and evidence remain aligned before commitment occurs.
Decision States
What PGC01 Can Do
When conditions are evaluated, PGC01 can support multiple governance outcomes.
Allow
Conditions are satisfied and consequence may proceed.
Hold
More evidence, authority, or context is required before commitment.
Escalate
The decision requires higher authority or independent review.
Refuse
The conditions for legitimate consequence are not present.
Relationship to RiCo
Before consequence forms, PGC01 evaluates admissibility.
After consequence forms, trusted continuity must be preserved, reviewed, reconstructed, and maintained through changing conditions.
That is the role of RiCo — Runtime Integrity Control.
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