PROPOSERequest consequential action; creates no authority.
DECIDEEvaluate proposal against current authority, state, policy and evidence.
ALLOWNormal decision permitting the governed path to continue.
DENYNormal decision refusing the proposed consequence; no grant follows.
ESCALATECurrent authority cannot safely decide; further authority, evidence or human resolution is required.
GRANTBounded pre-commit authority for the exact action; not proof of execution.
ATTEMPT IDENTITYDurable identity for the consequential attempt used for duplicate control and reconciliation.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTEvidence that transport/application responded; not proof of external effect.
UNKNOWN_EFFECTEffect truth is unresolved and non-final; do not guess or blindly retry.
RECONCILIATIONResolve partial, uncertain or conflicting effect truth using the original attempt.
RESPONSIBILITY TRANSFERSeparate truth that responsibility has actually moved to the receiver.
STOPAuthenticated interrupt for active consequential execution; not a fourth normal decision and not rollback.
SAFE STATEDomain-specific containment target; there is no universal safe state.
BOUNDED PROJECTIONPurpose/freshness/provenance-bound state shared without transferring authority.
SOVEREIGN DOMAINBoundary retaining its own canonical state, admission, decision and consequential authority.
CLAIM CEILINGStrongest statement the cited evidence can support without overclaiming.
SEALED / CANONICALProvenance modifiers; they strengthen identity and custody, not claim scope.