01 / The operating case
What changes in a real workflow?
A new rule may widen payment limits for finance agents.
- 01Authority origin
- 02Task and grant
- 03Current decision
- 04Observed outcome
02 / Decision contract
What the executor must check
Replay redacted requests against old and proposed policy versions, compare verdict and reason changes, and review high-impact newly allowed cases before release.
InputPrincipal · task · action · target
DecisionGrant ancestry · policy · current state
ResultEnforce · record · verify outcome
03 / Failure and evidence
What goes wrong, and what can be proven?
Failure mode
A simulation reuses stale or incomplete context and falsely predicts that no actions change.
Evidence to retain
Retain policy digests, input coverage, changed verdicts and review signoff.
04 / Canonical scope
Why this reference stands alone
Policy tests use deterministic cases; simulation measures impact on representative traffic.
Illustrative implementation artifact
Verdict-delta report
for recordedRequest in representativeTraffic:
old = evaluate(oldPolicy, recordedRequest)
new = evaluate(candidatePolicy, recordedRequest)
if old != new: classify action risk and review
never execute during simulationPrimary references