Glossary entry

Care floor guarantees

Definition

Baseline commitments a service keeps during outages or crises: live support, data export, or safe defaults. Care floors protect users while graceful degradation is active.

Diagnostic

Related terms

Affect-invariance Performance-gated remedy Silence defaults to approval Design for ethical latency Crisis rehearsal loops Ethical load testing Relief invariants The principle of low-failure-load design
Cite this glossary entry · v1.17.1 · updated Oct 6, 2026 · CC BY-SA 4.0

APA

Ethotechnics Institute. (2026). Care floor guarantees. Ethotechnics glossary. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/care-floor-guarantees

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Ethotechnics Institute. "Care floor guarantees." Ethotechnics glossary, 2026, https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/care-floor-guarantees.

Chicago

Ethotechnics Institute. "Care floor guarantees." Ethotechnics glossary. Oct 6, 2026. https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/care-floor-guarantees.

BibTeX

@misc{glossary_care-floor-guarantees,
  title={Care floor guarantees},
  author={Ethotechnics Institute},
  year={2026},
  howpublished={Ethotechnics glossary},
  url={https://ethotechnics.org/glossary/care-floor-guarantees},
  version={v1.17.1}
}

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  • Published: Dec 3, 2025
  • Last updated: Oct 6, 2026
  • Version: v1.17.1

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