Admissibility Debt
Admissibility Debt is the accumulated unresolved governance obligation created when an action or effect occurs before its governance ticket has been fully validated. The debt records what must be reconciled before the record can be treated as fully admissible. For a new governed action, unresolved mandatory debt prevents admission. Existing or imported actions may carry debt that must be reconciled after the fact.
The Admissibility Debt calculator scores a governed action across five evidence categories. Each category contributes to the total debt; the scorer returns a JSON record that can be attached to the action's receipt and re-evaluated on replay.
- Capability shortfallActions taken under tokens that lack one or more required capability claims.
- Policy driftReceipts evaluated against a policy version newer or older than the bound version.
- Continuity gapsMissing STATE_REGISTER attestations across the action's session window.
- Quorum dilutionRequired Triumvirate warrants missing any of the three module authorizations.
- Chain breaksReceipts whose prev_hash does not match the chain_seq − 1 receipt's hash.
The doctrinal definition of admissibility lives at /doctrine. Worked examples and the evidence schema appear across the glossary and claims registry. Subscribe to release notes via /changelog for ship dates.