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A map of programs. The Constraint Program defines admissibility; downstream programs apply it.

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The Constraint Program

Defines admissibility (what can continue) under finite resolution, bounded observability, and enforced structure.

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Downstream Programs In Formation

The following programs apply the admissibility framework defined by the Constraint Program to specific system classes. They establish jurisdictional scope only. They do not disclose methods, algorithms, policies, or implementations.

Socio-technical systems

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Pre-Alignment & Admissible AI Systems

Domains

Artificial intelligence systems, autonomous agents, foundation models, safety-critical software, and machine-mediated decision systems.

Scope

Characterizes when continuation becomes inadmissible prior to alignment, reward modeling, or optimization, with emphasis on observer-only posture, refusal conditions, and abstention constraints.

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Institutional Continuation & Breakdown

Domains

Governments, corporations, regulatory bodies, financial institutions, standards organizations, and large-scale bureaucratic systems.

Scope

Characterizes structural loss of continuation arising from constraint accumulation, observability collapse, or enforcement saturation, independent of policy design or incentives.

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Admissible Markets & Financial Systems

Domains

Capital markets, credit systems, liquidity networks, clearing mechanisms, and market infrastructures.

Scope

Frames admissibility boundaries for market states, treating liquidity as observability and systemic crashes as continuation failure rather than informational surprise.

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Infrastructure Admissibility

Domains

Energy grids, telecommunications networks, compute infrastructure, cloud platforms, and critical physical-digital systems.

Scope

Characterizes continuation and failure under finite observability and delayed feedback, where optimization and local control can induce global breakdown.

Frontier physics systems

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Fusion Containment Admissibility

Plasma containment as continuation under constraint

Scope

Defines admissibility and refusal conditions near instability surfaces under finite sensing and irreversible excursions—without control, tuning, or performance claims.

  • Common boundary themes: drift, boundary proximity, hysteresis
  • Continuation debt & irrecoverable regimes
  • Termination authority as a safety primitive

Inherits admissibility from the Constraint Program.

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Quantum Systems Admissibility

Coherence as finite-bandwidth continuation

Scope

Characterizes when quantum evolution remains structurally admissible under decoherence, measurement constraints, and coupling—without optimization or device prescriptions.

  • Coherence bandwidth & irreversibility
  • Boundary conditions for continuation
  • Observer-limited evolution

Inherits admissibility from the Constraint Program.

These programs inherit admissibility as defined by the Constraint Program. Domain-specific analyses are considered derivative and non-authoritative.

Program names and scopes are declarative; subsequent work that applies admissibility to these domains is downstream by definition.

Papers
Program Notes CRL-0 · Jurisdictional
Surface Separation
Surface Separation (CC ↔ ZOA)

Canonical fence note defining CC ↔ ZOA jurisdictional boundaries.

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Program Note #2.5
Snapshot Resemblance, Persistence, and Identity Claims

Identity claims require persistence under admissible evolution; pointwise resemblance alone is insufficient.

Foundation Notes CRL-0 · Structural

Reserved entries are catalog placeholders only; they do not indicate deployment sequence, methods, thresholds, or system behavior.

Structural Figures Selected

Admissible structure precedes explanation.

Structural geometry

Attractor geometry under constraint

Surgical decomposition

Spectral decomposition / tensor structure