llm_authority

Scope: LLM authority boundary.
Audience: Contributors and reviewers.
Guarantees: LLM actions are bounded and enforced.
Non-Goals: Model benchmarking.
Why: This doc exists to record its single responsibility for review.

Overview

This doc defines the LLM authority boundary.
Architecture components are defined in Architecture.
Read Core Concepts for vocabulary.
Read Docs Style for structure.

Contracts

Allowed actions are tuning only.
Forbidden actions include any state mutation.
Read-only and write-through permissions are explicit.

Invariants

Proposals never mutate state directly.
Validation rejects invalid proposals.
Approvals gate all proposal application.

Failure Modes

Forbidden actions raise errors.
Invalid proposals are rejected and logged.
Missing approvals block proposal application.

Extension Points

Authority changes update Docs Style.
Authority changes update Core Concepts.
Authority changes update Architecture.

Exit Criteria

This doc becomes obsolete when authority is generated.
The replacement is Architecture.
Obsolete docs are removed.

Code refs: src/agentic_proteins/biology/regulator.py.