Definition
A versioned statement of the propositions a delegation rests on: what the model does, who the population is, what the downstream process catches, and when each claim expires. Grants cite policy records rather than restating their assumptions, which is what policy as state requires.
It matters because assumptions decay silently when they are held as launch documents. Held as a record with a version and an expiry, a policy can raise a review trigger and move a grant state when the world changes. That propagation is the mechanism behind a revisable delegation: the delegation narrows because a proposition it rested on lapsed.
VisibilityStructural
Tests that show it is in place
- Each policy record states its assumptions, its evidence, its version, and its review date.
- Grants reference policy records by id and version rather than paraphrasing them.
- Passing a review date changes the record status and propagates to every grant that cites it.
Evidence to keep
- Artifact: A policy record with assumptions, evidence refs, version, and review date.
- Behavior: A lapsed policy record moving its dependent grants to review_required.
- Metric: Share of live grants whose cited policy records are all within their review dates.
References
- STD-07 Revisable delegation record · Standard