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✅ RPAS‑CM‑TAR‑001 v1.0.0 (CSR-42)

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Source: governance/RPAS-TAR.md — branch adpa-project-charter, repository mdresch/adpa.

✅ RPAS‑CM‑TAR‑001 v1.0.0 (CSR-42)

Traceability, Authority & Responsibility Protocol

Purpose

As ADPA scales to multi-agent, multi-tier, and multi-stakeholder collaboration, the risks of authority misunderstood, lineage fragmentation, and responsibility gaps increase. The RPAS-TAR protocol ensures that every action, artifact, and decision is attributable to a verifiable owner and that no authority domain exceeds its predefined boundaries.

This protocol enforces:

  • Traceability (T1–T2)
  • Authority Boundaries (T3–T4)
  • Responsibility Assignment (T5–T6)

✅ 1. Traceability Requirements

T1 — Artifact Traceability

Every governed artifact must store its complete origin and decision lineage:

  • Origin Source: The actor or system that generated the artifact.
  • Decision ID: The human Decision ritual that authorized the artifact.
  • Amendment ID: The formal change request that proposed the artifact.
  • CSR Version: The epoch governing the artifact's execution.
  • Lineage: The link to any superseded version of the same artifact.

Enforces G3: Complete reconstructibility of truth.

T2 — Actor Traceability

Every execution and state mutation must log the full chain-of-custody:

  • Proposer: The agent or human who drafted the intention.
  • Approver: The human who authorized the Decision ritual.
  • Executor: The system (Orchestrator) that applied the change.
  • System ID: The specific environment or worker identity.

✅ 2. Authority Boundaries

T3 — Authority Enforcement (Tiers)

Each tier in the ADPA ecosystem is prohibited from performing actions outside its authority:

Tier Authority Responsibility
Intelligence Advisory only AI-driven research and proposal drafting (JSON).
Experience Read + Decision UI Visualization and human authorization rituals.
Orchestration Sole Executor Execution rituals, RTM seeding, and CSR stamping.
Data Append-only Ledger Immutable storage of governance events.

G1 + G5 enforcement: No implicit writes; the Orchestrator is the sole authority for state mutation.

T4 — Non-Overlap Rule

Tiers must have strictly disjoint responsibilities to prevent authority collisions:

  • The Intelligence Tier must never execute or commit code.
  • The Experience Tier must never perform governance logic or bypass the Orchestrator.
  • The Orchestrator must never propose or decide; it only verifies and applies.

✅ 3. Responsibility Assignment

T5 — Ritual Conformance

Every system action must map to exactly one ritual stage in the canonical lifecycle: Ideation → Business Case → Approval → RTM Seed → Amendment Proposal → Amendment Decision → Execution → CSR Baseline

T6 — Deterministic Responsibility

Given the same inputs, amendments, and CSR version, the system's response must be identical. Responsibility for divergence lies with the actor that bypassed the deterministic execution ritual.

✅ 4. Governance Lineage

  • Artifact ID: RPAS-CM-TAR-001
  • Version: 1.0.0
  • Epoch: CSR-42
  • Parents: RPAS-CM-GRA-001
  • Status: Baseline-Ready
  • Author: Manus AI (advisory)