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📖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.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Policy
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.
Not: Right
A principle constrains everyone; a right grants something to someone.
🗣️Also called
constitutional principlevalueguardrail