> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Governance

# Governance, Authority & Approval

## The Tier-0 Principle

> **Business Context is the semantic foundation of SpineWorkspace.** Governance exists to protect Business Context. Without Business Context, governance has nothing to protect.

## Governance model

```text theme={null}
Identity
→ Tenant
→ Role
→ Responsibility
→ Authority
→ Permission
→ Capability
→ Policy
→ Approval
→ Execution
```

## Authority classes

* observe;
* derive;
* recommend;
* communicate;
* approve;
* mutate;
* administer.

## Human authority

Humans retain consequential responsibility where policy or organizational role requires it.

## AI authority

AI capability does not imply AI authority.

Confidence does not grant authority.

## Approval

An approval must bind:

* tenant;
* principal;
* Work;
* action/capability;
* candidate version;
* authority scope;
* timestamp;
* policy version;
* audit record.

## Rejection / modification

The user may:

* reject;
* modify;
* redirect;
* request more context;
* consult another human.

## External communication approval

Slack/email/chat responses may initiate an approval workflow, but must be converted into verified approval events before consequential execution.

## Core law

> Nothing should acquire consequential authority merely because a model, agent or workflow produced a confident result.