Governance
Policy evaluation and decision issuance. Every intent that enters this plane is evaluated against active policy and exits as a signed, spine-anchored Decision, either an authorization or a denial. Both are governed outcomes.
Governance resolves to a bounded state.
Policy approves the action. A signed DecisionReceipt is issued before execution begins.
Policy forbids the action. A denial receipt is issued. No execution occurs.
Authorization is positive, explicit, and signed.
Policy is defined by your organization and evaluated by Keon. What is permitted is explicitly declared, versioned, and hash-bound at evaluation time.
Every governance decision, APPROVED or DENIED, is cryptographically signed and anchored to the Governed Spine before the outcome is communicated.
The ALPHA Protocol provides the human governance surface. Authority structures, approval chains, and human-in-the-loop gates are defined here.
Authorization requires a positive, signed Decision. The absence of a Decision is itself a governed condition: fail-closed.