Nothing Changes Without Approval and a Permanent Record

What This Actually Is

The system is built around one rule: nothing changes silently. Every action — a new capability, a change to how something works, a repair — starts as a proposed task with an explicit trigger, is reviewed, and only then executes. The result, whatever it is, is written permanently to an append-only record. Nothing is ever deleted from it; corrections are added as new entries, not edits to old ones.

What this makes possible:

• Every proposed change has a trigger (what caused it), an executor (who or what did it), and a result — all three, every time
• At the system's current stage, every proposed change is reviewed and approved by a person before it happens — there's no self-modification running unsupervised yet
• The record of what happened is permanent — you can trace any current state of the system back through every decision that led to it

Why This Matters More As the System Grows

This rule exists specifically because a system that can change itself is dangerous without it:

• If something goes wrong, there's always a record of exactly what happened, when, and why — not a guess
• As the system takes on more autonomous decisions over time, this same rule is what keeps that growth accountable, rather than opaque
• It's also why corrections are always visible: nothing gets quietly patched over — a fix is a new, dated entry, not a rewritten past

What This Proves, and What It Doesn't

This proves that no part of the system can change itself without a trigger, a review, and a permanent record — checkable today. It does not mean the system runs itself with no human involved; today, a person approves every change. For the deeper reasoning behind why this rule exists, see Task Sovereignty: The Karma of Self-Modification.