Incident Literacy — Operational test: Teams can point to a concrete example that demonstrates incident literacy in practice.
Operational test "Teams can point to a concrete example that demonstrates incident literacy in practice." for Incident Literacy in the Ethotechnic capabilities (what systems must be able to do) glossary category.
Operational test
Teams can point to a concrete example that demonstrates incident literacy in practice.
Use this test to validate operational readiness.
Pair this test with the minimum evidence criteria to capture both qualitative and quantitative signals.
- Evidence artifact: Artifact documenting how Incident Literacy is expected, enforced, or governed.
- Behavior signal: Observed behavior showing Incident Literacy in practice during real use or drills.
- Metric signal: Metric tracked to monitor Incident Literacy performance over time.
Context
How this test fits the glossary entry
Category: Ethotechnic capabilities (what systems must be able to do)
The ability to recognize failures as incidents (not anomalies) and respond with containment, logging, escalation, and repair. It pairs ethical interrupts with a living repair log .
C. Ethotechnic capabilities (what systems must be able to do). Design requirements that keep people safe when systems scale.
Ethotechnics uses Incident Literacy to extend the c. ethotechnic capabilities (what systems must be able to do) vocabulary and connect governance, design, and policy teams.