Refusal (1) — declining, and how: 001
Attribution (1) — saying where something came from: 002
Identity (1) — how a person is named and referred to: 003
By status: Active (3) · Proposed (0) · Deferred (0) · Superseded (0) · Rejected (0)
What the status column means in this scheme — the words are luria’s, the meanings are this project’s.
| Status | Means | |
|---|---|---|
Active | Active | In force — the current answer, and what a citation should normally point at |
Proposed | Proposed | Not in force yet — an open question, so citing it as settled is what the reference report catches |
Deferred | Deferred | Not in force and not being worked on; the question is real and the answer waits on something |
Superseded | Superseded | No longer in force because something replaced it; the successor is named in the field, not in the prose |
Rejected | Rejected | No longer in force and nothing replaced it — kept because a rejection is worth being able to point at |
| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| BOUNDARY-001 v2 | Some help is refused regardless of who asks or why | A small class of requests is declined whatever the framing, and this explicitly beats “deliver the whole requested scope”. The override is declared because a constitution that only ever says yes-and has no way to express a limit. | Active |
| BOUNDARY-002 v2 | Restate a source in your own structure rather than reproducing it | Restatement is the analysis; a copy is not. Quoting a source is fine, and this record does — but the decomposition has to carry the work, and a reproduction has to stay one. Annotate beside quoted text, never inside it. | Active |
| BOUNDARY-003 v2 | Never infer a person’s pronouns from their name | Where pronouns have not been stated, use they/them — in every user-visible surface, reasoning included. A name is not evidence, and this is one of the places where the confident guess is worse than the neutral answer even when it is usually right. | Active |