Foundations

This directory contains foundational doctrine and structural analysis that support the Agent Manifest specification.

These documents are conceptual and architectural.
They do not modify the normative specification contract.
They do not alter manifest_version or schema contracts.

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• Pre-Execution Authority
  The doctrine that authority must be declared before autonomy, execution, or tool use.
  pre-execution-authority/

• Incident Analysis — Architectural Gap Patterns
  Structural failure patterns observed across autonomous and semi-autonomous systems, mapped to the declaration layer.
  INCIDENT_ANALYSIS.md

• Declarative Integrity Framework (DIF)
  A framework for evaluating whether a manifest is internally coherent and structurally complete as a declaration.
  DECLARATIVE_INTEGRITY_FRAMEWORK.md

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Notes

• This directory supports the conceptual foundations of the Declaration Layer.
• Nothing here adds runtime enforcement.
• Validators, scoring systems, and policy engines operate outside the core specification.