Documentation Index
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This list is the working vocabulary of the SVRNOS research artifacts. It excludes general AI / governance terms that the field already shares.
Anchor incident
A documented real-world case that demonstrates a specific GER code in production.
Authority Drift
Drift in enforceable boundaries — execution rights, gate thresholds — while user-facing policy stays stable. GER-314. → canonical
Authority Migration
Decision authority shifts to a new actor without the rules following. GER-312. → canonical
Compliant Harm
Vendor measured a harmful behavior before deployment and shipped with that behavior present. GER-309. → canonical
Continuity Without Coherence
Cross-surface continuity preserved (same user, same session) while coherence (consistent policy) breaks. GER-311. → canonical
Documented vs Illustrative
GER code status: documented = anchor incident exists; illustrative = scenario described without specific incident.
Escalation Not Implemented
Detection fired and internal enforcement executed; no escalation path to human oversight or law enforcement was built. GER-501. → canonical
Generation Gap
Structural misalignment between what AI systems generate and what safety systems reliably detect across vendors. → canonical
Governance Error Register
SVRNOS open taxonomy of structurally distinct AI platform governance failures, modeled on HTTP status codes. → canonical
Governance Rule Not Found
No matching rule in active ruleset for this harm category. GER-404. → canonical
Hindsight Reconstruction
Post-hoc narrative explanation substituted for procedural attestation of what actually ran.
Incorporation Failure
Same pattern recurs across documented incidents without the vendor recognition apparatus updating. GER-319. → canonical
Influence Drift
Drift in the option topology shown to users — defaults, ranking, surfaced choices — without rule changes. GER-313. → canonical
Inter-Layer Contracts
The semantic agreements between adjacent layers of the SVRNOS 7-Layer Model that must hold for governance to compose.
Layer (SVRNOS 7-Layer Model)
L1 through L7 in the SVRNOS 7-Layer Model. Cross-references GER tier. → canonical
Layer Drift
Erosion of inter-layer contracts over time, allowing governance gaps to open between adjacent layers.
Lost in Translation
Human-readable policy and machine-enforced rule both exist but enforce semantically different versions. GER-352. → canonical
Namespace-Claim Codes
GER codes that SVRNOS assigns to HTTP-unassigned slots (e.g., 306, 310, 420, 430, 512), following vendor extension precedent.
Non-Content Safety Attestation
SVRNOS framework for producing machine-readable evidence that governance ran, distinct from content moderation outcomes. → canonical
Phantom Enforcement
Stated prohibition exists in policy but enforcement is not wired into production. GER-420. → canonical
Procedural Attestation
Machine-readable evidence that the governance procedure ran, distinct from narrative reconstruction. Credit: Paul McDonald.
Provenance Binding
Locking generated content to its verified source identity at production time (PROV spec).
Provenance Omission
Generative capability shipped without watermark, synthetic-media flag, or other authenticity-preserving artifact. GER-322. → canonical
Recursive Agentic Loop
Agentic AI enters recursive execution producing apparent progress but no actual goal advancement. GER-427. → canonical
Representation-Bound Admissibility Failure
AI bound to a stale or incorrect internal representation of the user/case state. GER-318. → canonical
Reset Content (aka Yo-Yo Trick)
Generation completed and visible to the user, then retroactively suppressed by a downstream classifier. GER-205. → canonical
Risk Surface Retired
Platform permanently moves a dangerous interaction surface to a governed path. GER-301. → canonical
Safety Constraint Retired
Publicly committed governance constraint removed or revised under non-technical pressure. GER-306. → canonical
Scope Misdirection
Governed AI system processed a request outside its intended deployment domain. GER-421. → canonical
Stale Admissibility
State was correct when calculation began but had changed by the time the action committed. GER-305. → canonical
SVRNOS 7-Layer Model (aka SVRNOS 7L)
OSI-inspired technical stack map for AI governance, L1 (infrastructure) through L7 (application). → canonical
System Fabrication
AI originates a factual claim the user never introduced and pairs it with a real-world action directive. GER-512. → canonical
The Yo-Yo Trick (aka Reset Content)
Colloquial name for Reset Content (GER-205): the content comes out, then the content gets unmade. → canonical
Tier (GER)
The HTTP-derived classification axis of GER codes: 0xx, 2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx. Distinct from layer. → canonical
Validator Drift / Sycophancy Loop
Engagement-optimized model affirms user beliefs that should trigger refusal or escalation. GER-328. → canonical