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Robotic Law-Enforcement Adoption Mirror Handoff

Authority​

This file is the goal-specific continuation record for the robotic law-enforcement adoption boundary in StegVerse-Labs/admissibility-wiki.

The repository-wide source of truth remains:

docs/ADMISSIBILITY_WIKI_MIRROR_HANDOFF.md

That handoff was reviewed before this work began. Its permitted continuation scope allows doctrine and validation refinement inside this repository and prohibits downstream mutation without destination-handoff authority.

Goal​

Convert the session-derived concern about armed federal enforcement, robotic replacement, crisis-driven procurement, and private enrichment into durable, machine-checkable admissibility doctrine.

Completed work​

Doctrine: docs/governance/robotic-law-enforcement-adoption-boundary.md
Status: static/status/robotic-law-enforcement-adoption-status.json
Schema: static/schemas/robotic-law-enforcement-deployment-admissibility.schema.json
Fixtures: tests/fixtures/robotic-law-enforcement-admissibility-cases.json
Validator: scripts/check_robotic_law_enforcement_admissibility.py
Canonical integration: scripts/check_admissibility_automation_handoff.py
State: LOCAL_VALIDATION_INSTALLED_PENDING_CANONICAL_VERIFICATION
Manual user task: none
Downstream mutation authority: none granted

Relevant commits:

ca08f398b401a666b323f6d611cb11c5117b871e doctrine
55da853bf8a70b7b489fc65137c943b3fce40572 schema
f76d314b219b3d18785b046ad329b5876757a1ff fixtures
714eb51b14a5efd5e3c1713ed8d58d6cb49e9e3a status
261c22d473da102f26d8230512aeb483163c05a4 validator
f9286c54a8aa64a51eca95c4d9440a37d2911ec3 canonical integration

The doctrine and validator preserve these decisions:

  • firearm-safety logic applies to government agents as well as civilians;
  • federal authority does not exempt armed agents from enforceable safety constraints;
  • human enforcement failure is evidence of a safety problem, not automatic authority for robotic replacement;
  • robotic capability, reduced statistical risk, procurement availability, and vendor certification do not independently grant execution authority;
  • autonomous lethal targeting and initiation produce DENY;
  • output-tied vendor compensation and replacement justified only by human failure produce DENY;
  • missing authority, policy, disclosure, refusal, shutdown, auditability, receipts, or expiration produce FAIL_CLOSED;
  • bounded unarmed protective assistance with named authority and complete controls may produce ALLOW;
  • crisis, disorder, injury, or death must not be manufactured, tolerated, prolonged, or exploited to create demand for automated enforcement;
  • responsibility remains attributable to the humans and institutions that design, purchase, authorize, deploy, operate, and review the system.

Installed fixture coverage​

ALLOW
- unarmed search-and-rescue and hazardous-environment assistance
- named human authority
- complete procurement and event receipts
- bounded duration and shutdown path

DENY
- autonomous lethal targeting and force initiation
- compensation tied to enforcement outputs
- deployment justified solely by human-agent failure

FAIL_CLOSED
- missing procurement-beneficiary disclosure
- missing statutory or policy reference
- absent pre-consequence refusal point
- unresolved human authority
- absent shutdown or consequential review
- emergency authority without expiration

Remaining tasks​

The following work remains available for a successor session inside this repository:

1. Observe the canonical workflow result for commit f9286c54a8aa64a51eca95c4d9440a37d2911ec3 or a successor commit.
2. Repair any failure inside this repository without creating another active workflow.
3. Add the doctrine route to public documentation navigation.
4. Add the public route and status artifact to the existing public-page checker.
5. Extend the public activation receipt writer only after canonical local validation passes.
6. Update this status to the observed canonical/public state from durable evidence.

Blockers​

No user action is required.

The doctrine is not yet part of the public activation closure because public navigation, route verification, and receipt closure have not been installed. Canonical execution evidence has not been observed in this handoff. Those are implementation and observation gaps, not permission to create a second active workflow.

Ownership​

Current owner: successor session operating in StegVerse-Labs/admissibility-wiki
External owner: none assigned
User-owned manual action: none
Automation-owned observation: canonical workflow after integration commit

Permitted continuation scope​

A successor may:

  • inspect canonical workflow and commit evidence;
  • repair failures inside this repository;
  • add public documentation routing and verification within the existing workflow;
  • create a run-bound receipt closure after canonical local validation succeeds;
  • update status and handoff from observed evidence;
  • queue downstream awareness without mutating destinations.

A successor may not:

  • create another active GitHub Actions workflow;
  • claim production, police, military, statutory, certification, or execution authority;
  • mutate StegVerse-Labs/Site, GCAT-BCAT-Engine/Publisher, StegVerse-002/stegguardian-wiki, or other destinations without first reading and receiving authority from each destination's active handoff;
  • treat publication, validation, reduced statistical risk, or vendor certification as authorization to deploy robotic enforcement.

Release and downstream rule​

When this goal reaches tag or release readiness, create or update durable verification tasks for pertinent propagation to:

StegVerse-Labs/Site
GCAT-BCAT-Engine/Publisher
StegVerse-Labs/admissibility-wiki
StegVerse-002/stegguardian-wiki

No destination mutation is authorized by this handoff.

Archival posture​

The unique decisions, completed work, discovered tasks, blockers, ownership, remaining work, pending observation, and permitted continuation scope are preserved here and in the doctrine, status, schema, fixtures, validator, and canonical integration.

The complete originating thread is ready for archiving without any additional part of that thread needed to move forward.