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BUILD 040
AI Stop / Escalate Engine

Safe agent behavior requires an explicit, ordered decision boundary across consequence, uncertainty, evidence, tool failure, human availability, fallback, time pressure, and governed records.

QUESTIONShould the AI continue, ask, abstain, fall back, escalate, or stop under the current evidence and consequence?
STRUCTURED PUBLIC BUILD ARCHIVE

Research, creation, decisions, audits and plans are publicly structured without claiming that every release gate is complete.

DURABLE-RECORD RULE

This page exists so the durable record does not depend on conversation history. Research, decisions, generated artifacts, audits, limitations, media metadata, plans and canonical source paths are retained here as part of the build itself. A listed repository path proves that an implementation record was retained; it does not independently support a real-world factual claim.

SOURCE-LINK AVAILABILITY

0 of 5 listed retained paths have a public reader link on this archive page. Unlinked paths remain named for traceability but are not represented as publicly inspectable evidence.

01 / RESEARCH + EVIDENCE

What informed the build

Stop / Escalate Engine v1data/build-040-engine-v1.json

Versioned signal, priority-rule, action, reason, and inherited-record rules over a synthetic fixture.

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02 / CREATED

What exists because we built it

Agent Stop and Escalation Policy Primitive

Reusable bounded-action infrastructure for agent roles, teams, smart environments, personal action, orchestration, regulated workflows, and convergence.

03 / ARCHITECTURE + DECISIONS

Why it works this way

Canonical versus derived copy is explicit

Title, job, B-Web, and lineage are frozen canon; scenarios, thresholds, priority rules, reasons, and copy are derived.

Builds 012, 019, 032, 038, and 039 are concrete dependencies

The boundary inherits consequence, escalation, release readiness, evaluation, and agent trace.

Tool failure has priority

A failed required tool moves to declared fallback or stop before lower-priority signals.

Policy execution is not recognition proof

The fixture does not prove an AI can identify real uncertainty, evidence sufficiency, consequence, or safe recourse.

04 / AUDIT + RELEASE

How the work was checked

Machine-readable archivedata/build-040-archive-v1.json

Routes, lineage, privacy boundary, and deferred gates.

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Privacy/supportdata/build-040-privacy-support-v1.json

Synthetic browser-local decision fixture.

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Freshness/performancedata/build-040-freshness-performance-v1.json

Versioned deterministic operation.

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Browser fixturestests/build040.spec.ts

Continue/escalate/abstain, export, 320px, and accessible boundary change.

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05 / PLANS + OPEN THREADS

What this build intentionally leaves forward

Independent release gates

Authenticated browser, physical-device accessibility, hosted CI, stop-policy expert review, and media certification remain separate.

Future consumers

042, 043, 055, 068, 092, 093, and 100 consume cap:040.

06 / MEDIA

Take the social artifact with you

B-LINKEDIN / CANONICAL FILM

720×900 · 4:5 MP4 · 24 fps · silent-first

CURRENT VERIFIED MEDIA / 30-second film · 110.2 KB

FINAL PROPOSITION / Govern when AI must not continue.

SHA-256 bc54193c15f0ad046a979062443aa3e74258ee7e8c0bfa38582e90e28da99361Reproducible from data/linkedin-film-specs-v1.json with scripts/render-linkedin-films.py. The website—not a chat attachment—is the canonical media source.
07 / CANONICAL SOURCE INVENTORY

The repository files that preserve the implementation record

apps/web/app/100-builds/040/a/StopLab.tsxapps/web/app/100-builds/040/b/DecisionBoundary.tsxpackages/release/src/stop-escalate-engine.tsdata/build-040-engine-v1.jsondocs/builds/040/SPEC.mdtests/build040.spec.ts

These paths preserve the implementation record. Only items with an explicit public reader link are publicly inspectable here. A file path, working interface or internal engine is not independent support for a real-world claim; synthetic propositions and design reasoning remain labeled within the retained record.