This gate evaluates whether conditions permit a determination — not whether action is sound, justified, or desirable.
It exists for moments when:
- execution is already underway
- stopping feels destabilizing
- and continuation may convert risk into irreversibility
If those conditions are not present, this gate will not open.
This gate applies only when one or more of the following are already true:
- Decisions increasingly feel irreversible
- Strategy advances faster than consequence can be governed
- Alignment holds in language but fractures in action
- Risk is absorbed quietly rather than refused
- Near-misses accumulate and are reframed as success
If none of these resonate, no determination is permitted.
This gate does not:
- explore options
- offer advice
- provide reassurance
- initiate a relationship
- validate momentum
It does not help you decide what to do.
It determines whether deciding itself is still allowed.
This gate exists only where refusal remains mandate-bound, legally and structurally possible.
It does not create authority.
It tests whether authority still survives under present conditions.
Legitimacy here refers to mandate survivability, not legal compliance, regulatory approval, or lawfulness.
You may proceed only if all of the following are true:
1. A negative determination would be respected
2. Refusal would be binding internally
3. You hold mandate to accept a determination on behalf of the organization
If any of these are false, do not proceed.
If — and only if — the above conditions are already present,
a submission interface exists.