{"slug":"public/product/governance","title":"Governance, Authority & Approval","section":"public","sectionLabel":"Public","status":"unclassified","type":"document","path":"public/product/governance.md","bytes":1485,"description":null,"updated":null,"source":"integratewise/Integratewise-docs-wiki","content":"<!-- DOCUMENT CLASS: PUBLIC | SOURCE: 21_GOVERNANCE_AUTHORITY_AND_APPROVAL.md -->\n<!-- STATUS: Aligned with Founder Canon (31 August 2026) -->\n\n# Governance, Authority & Approval\n\n## The Tier-0 Principle\n\n> **Business Context is the semantic foundation of SpineWorkspace.** Governance exists to protect Business Context. Without Business Context, governance has nothing to protect.\n\n## Governance model\n\n```text\nIdentity\n→ Tenant\n→ Role\n→ Responsibility\n→ Authority\n→ Permission\n→ Capability\n→ Policy\n→ Approval\n→ Execution\n```\n\n## Authority classes\n\n- observe;\n- derive;\n- recommend;\n- communicate;\n- approve;\n- mutate;\n- administer.\n\n## Human authority\n\nHumans retain consequential responsibility where policy or organizational role requires it.\n\n## AI authority\n\nAI capability does not imply AI authority.\n\nConfidence does not grant authority.\n\n## Approval\n\nAn approval must bind:\n\n- tenant;\n- principal;\n- Work;\n- action/capability;\n- candidate version;\n- authority scope;\n- timestamp;\n- policy version;\n- audit record.\n\n## Rejection / modification\n\nThe user may:\n\n- reject;\n- modify;\n- redirect;\n- request more context;\n- consult another human.\n\n## External communication approval\n\nSlack/email/chat responses may initiate an approval workflow, but must be converted into verified approval events before consequential execution.\n\n## Core law\n\n> Nothing should acquire consequential authority merely because a model, agent or workflow produced a confident result.\n"}