Governance Note

Why Legacy Lens Refuses Unprovable Claims

Refusal is a governance safeguard. Legacy Lens records what can be proven and stops where evidence ends. Declining to assert beyond the evidence prevents non-defensible promises and preserves regulator trust.

What refusal means

Refusal is recorded in the bundle alongside context, findings, and hashes. It signals that a boundary exists and that no further deterministic claim is being made.

Why refusal is necessary

Regulated decisions require defensibility. Any claim without evidence becomes a liability in audits, board reviews, and regulator scrutiny. Refusal prevents that liability.

Governance consequence

When refusal is recorded, any downstream decision must either remediate the boundary or accept a constrained scope. Proceeding without remediation is explicitly non-defensible.

Authority boundary statement

Where provability terminates, authority terminates.

Evidence and verification

Refusal statements are hash-bound to the same evidence bundle as findings.
Replay reproduces the same refusal stance and supporting context.
No silent degradation: boundaries are explicit, signed, and timestamped.

Verified authority record

View a verified bundle that includes refusal posture: Download authority record (PDF)