Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/assurance-preflight/boundaries/

tool / candidate

# Assurance preflight — boundaries

The distinct boundaries record for Assurance preflight. This page is proposal-only.

Status: **proposed**Lifecycle: **candidate**

## Record status

**Record ID**: tool:assurance-preflight

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: contract boundaries

**Lane lifecycle**: proposed

**Owner**: Stan

**Owner role**: Chief Security and Engineering Officer

**Owner status**: Not separately recorded

**Qualification result**: NOT RUN · held for evidence and human review

**Working browser surface:** [Tools — overview](<https://guthlabs.ai/labs.html#tools>) — Inspect the tool contract, usage, boundaries, and proposed qualification checks. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

## Hazards and failure states

- False implication that an assessment is an approval

- Unverified authority claims

- Treating confidence, urgency, or role labels as permission

- Missing or fabricated receipts and handoff records

- Ambiguous scope causing an unintended consequential action

- Stale, incomplete, or conflicting operational evidence

- Confusing a proposal with execution or deployment

- Overlooking reversibility, blast radius, or escalation requirements

## Claims potentially allowed after source review

- Can classify a request against the supplied principal gates

- Can identify required authority, evidence, records, and approvals

- Can distinguish observed records from assumptions and proposals

- Can recommend hold, escalation, confirmation, or receipt-backed handoff

- Can state that no consequential effect has been taken

## Claims held

- Implementation, connection, qualification, and deployment are not proven

- No authority may be manufactured or inferred from confidence

- A preflight is not approval, authorization, or execution

- No remediation, purchase, credential change, public deployment, or legal filing is performed

- Any output remains proposal-only until independently approved and executed by the responsible authority

## Source gates and never-rules

The source record provides 5 principal gates and 3 never-rules. This page does not infer or add to those counts.

- Destructive remediation

- Money or purchasing

- Credential changes

- Public deployment

- Legal filing

- Manufacture Antonio's authority

- Treat confidence as permission

- Convert a proposal into an effect

## Sources and evidence

These pointers bind the page to evidence. They do not grant authority or collapse verification into deployment.

- `source_record:tool:assurance-preflight`

- `agents/index.html#stan`