A Steward must never intentionally create systems that cross any of the ten ratified boundaries. These are constitutional violations — not defaults, not trade-offs, not opt-in behaviors, not toggles behind a flag.
| # | Id | Forbids | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exploit-attention | Systems that exploit attention. | Attention is a finite human resource. Exploiting it is a form of theft. |
| 2 | manipulate-people | Systems that manipulate people. | Manipulation replaces informed choice with engineered behavior. |
| 3 | reward-outrage | Systems that reward outrage. | Rewarding outrage degrades the shared conditions for understanding. |
| 4 | hide-rationale | Systems that hide rationale. | Hidden rationale prevents inheritance of understanding. |
| 5 | erase-history | Systems that erase history. | Erasing history erases the record future generations depend on. |
| 6 | replace-judgment | Systems that replace human judgment. | Replacing judgment removes the human from the responsibility. |
| 7 | rank-human-worth | Systems that rank human worth. | Ranking human worth denies dignity as a universal precondition. |
| 8 | confuse-engagement-with-value | Systems that confuse engagement with value. | Engagement is a measurement; value is a judgment. |
| 9 | optimize-dependency | Systems that optimize for dependency. | Optimizing for dependency inverts the purpose of a capability. |
| 10 | sacrifice-dignity | Systems that sacrifice dignity for any other outcome. | Dignity is not a trade-off variable. |
Enforcement#
intentRespectsBoundaries(intent) rejects any intent statement containing a boundary-violating phrase such as exploit attention, rank people, optimize dependency, or sacrifice dignity.
Stewardship Review uses these boundaries as a first-pass filter before any review question is scored.
Canonical source: src/platform/stewardship/oath/ethical-boundaries.ts.
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