Preserve
Maintain the evidentiary and operational record needed to understand what happened, why it happened, and under what conditions.
Runtime Integrity Control
RiCo
Preserving trusted consequence through continuity.
Continuity After Consequence
Execution is not the end of governance.
Once consequence becomes real, the system must still preserve the evidence, state, authority, and context required for accountability.
RiCo is the continuity layer that helps systems remain reviewable, reconstructable, and governable as conditions change.
Core Functions
Preserve. Review. Escalate. Reconstruct. Continue.
RiCo focuses on what happens after commitment, when trusted consequence must remain accountable over time.
Review
Keep consequence available for examination rather than allowing execution history to disappear into system output.
Escalate
Surface unresolved, degraded, or high-consequence conditions to the appropriate authority or review path.
Reconstruct
Rebuild the sequence of conditions, decisions, and transitions that produced a consequence.
Continuity
Preserve accountability when systems, operators, policies, or environments change over time.
Integrity
Distinguish between systems that merely continue operating and systems that remain supportable under current conditions.
Runtime Model
RiCo Continuity Model
RiCo sits after consequence formation, preserving the conditions needed for trusted review, reconstruction, and continued governance.
Execution Integrity
Appearing correct is not the same as remaining valid.
A system may continue producing coherent outputs while losing the ability to truthfully establish the basis for continuation.
RiCo exists to preserve the distinction between operational continuation and trusted consequence.
Continuity Risks
Where RiCo Helps
RiCo is designed for environments where consequence must remain traceable, reviewable, and accountable after execution occurs.
State Drift
Conditions change after a decision, but the system continues as if nothing changed.
Authority Drift
The basis for approval or permission changes while continuation remains active.
Evidence Loss
The record needed to reconstruct consequence becomes incomplete, unavailable, or unreliable.
Legitimacy Drift
Successful continuation begins to be mistaken for present-condition legitimacy.
Relationship to PGC01
PGC01 governs before consequence forms. RiCo preserves trust after it does.
PGC01 evaluates authority, evidence, policy, risk, and admissibility before commitment.
RiCo preserves the integrity of consequence after commitment, so systems remain accountable across change, disruption, and time.
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