Payment
Do not settle solely because an orchestration step returned success.
Evidence ceiling E3Proof boundary
RELIANCE GATE
Do not make success equal settlement.
A downstream system receives an explicit Finality state. Reliance is permitted only under declared institutional policy; contradiction blocks reliance and can require REOPEN.
Default policy
FINAL is the only default reliance state.
PENDING, CONTRADICTED, REOPENED and unsupported states do not silently inherit the meaning of execution success.
- REFERENCE INPUT
- PENDING
- REFERENCE DECISION
- HOLD
- RELIANCE ALLOWED
- FALSE
- DEFAULT PERMITTED STATE
- FINAL
- CONTRADICTION AFTER FINAL
- BLOCK_AND_REOPEN
- UNSUPPORTED FINAL PROMOTION
- PROHIBITED
Why this matters
Outcome assurance becomes infrastructure when other systems depend on the result.
Identity, authorization, execution and observability remain upstream controls. The Reliance Gate governs whether a consequential downstream system may treat the post-state as settled.
Provisioning
Do not activate solely because an API acknowledgement returned 2xx.
Agent action
Do not close the task solely because the agent reports completion.
Physical workflow
Do not accept solely because a command sequence completed.