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EPICON-C366-Tiering

EPICON — C-366 EPICON Tiering

ID: EPICON-C366-TIERING-001 Cycle: C-366 (2026-07-08) Actor: Michael (kaizencycle), Custodian / Human-in-the-Loop Witnesses: ATLAS (drafting) Consequence class: Constitutional — graduated gate, additive Status: proposed

Authority Provenance & Standing

Authority declared using docs/templates/EPICON_FOUNDER_STANDING.md v0.1

Michael (kaizencycle) exercises founder–custodian standing to propose EPICON tiering as constitutional gate semantics (C-366). Scope is limited to the tiering specification, constitutional EPICON JSON schema, and glossary entries listed below — not runtime gate middleware, policy registry implementation, or changes to EPICON-Lite / DVA_RUNTIME.

Intent

Canonize graduated EPICON tiers (EP-1, EP-2, EP-3) as a pre-execution constitutional gate: the more consequential the action, the stronger the EPICON requirement. If the required tier cannot be generated and validated, the action must not execute.

Core law: Tier classification is policy-assigned, never self-assessed by the acting agent. Unknown action types default to EP-3 (deny-by-default).

Constitutional decisions (draft)

  1. Namespace: EP-1/EP-2/EP-3 are EPICON consequence tiers — distinct from DVA agent tiers (T1/T2/T3) and EPICON-Lite discourse footers.
  2. Reconstructability ≠ reproducibility: "Replay" is evidence replay (hash-chain verification), not bitwise model re-derivation.
  3. Failure matrix: EP-3 always fails closed; EP-2 quarantines; EP-1 fails open with honest backfill marking.
  4. Operational / constitutional split: organizations retain operational truth (may include PHI/PII); Mobius ledger holds constitutional commitments only.

Scope

Changed files (Mobius-Substrate):

  • docs/specs/EPICON_TIERING_SPEC_v0.1.md — constitutional tiering grammar
  • schemas/epicon_constitutional_v1.schema.json — ledger commitment schema
  • docs/epicon/EPICON-C366-TIERING-001.md — this document
  • journals/cycles/C-366.json — cycle journal

Canonical MEC citation example (optional field on constitutional EPICON):

E01.RB341.C365.S016:Q5:AT+ZE+EV+JA+AU:GI064

What this does NOT do

  • Does not implement gate middleware, policy registry, or quarantine store (code_enforced: false — spec-first, same pattern as tokenomics)
  • Does not change EPICON-Lite, DVA_RUNTIME, or MEC_SPEC (grammar referenced, not modified)
  • Does not wire Terminal / HIVE / CPC runtime enforcement (follow-up)

Seal (pending quorum)

EPICON-C366-TIERING-001
Type: CONSTITUTIONAL_DOCUMENT
Authorized by: Michael / kaizencycle
Witnesses: ATLAS (drafting); quorum pending — ATLAS, ZEUS, EVE, JADE, AUREA
Timestamp: C-366

"We heal as we walk."