Agentic Covenants

Respond (RS) · Approval gating

Approval gating at the in agent layer

advisory · Bypassable by language alone

How do I stop the bleeding now?

What this cell does

(no enforcement)

Deliberately empty

This cell has no artifact, and that is the argument rather than a gap. At this layer, for this concern, nothing is enforced. Populating it with an enforcement claim would invert what the framework is saying.

Cell notes

Interventions, Approval gating / In-agent

Empty by design. A compromised approval surface cannot fix itself. Real intervention lives in ../client-side/ (deny-all hook, Auto Mode off) and ../server-side/ (branch protection lock, deployment freeze).