📖What it means

A standing value the admin sets that no policy, rule or action may contradict — ethical alignment, user isolation, cost minimisation, constitution integrity, agent self-knowledge. Principles are few, rarely amended, and only the admin may change them.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Policy", "distinction": "A principle is a value the system must never violate; a policy is an operational rule written to serve it. A policy that conflicts with a principle may not be created at all."}, {"term": "Right", "distinction": "A principle constrains everyone; a right grants something to someone."}]

📖Also called

- constitutional principle
- value
- guardrail

📖Filed under

Category: governance.

Service: Constitution.