... silently refresh into broader authority. A changed precondition invalidates the plan. And if current state cannot be checked through a bounded observation path, expiry should abort rather than recurse into another broad grant otherwise, as you say, it s turtles. I added this exact seam to the hardening matrix in issue #2: https://github.com/alexanderrada... So no: I wouldn t treat re-derivation reads as privileged or inherently safe. The trusted primitive is closer to observation with bounded effects ... ... because it's dumb, but because the radius is determined by capabilities it isn't even looking at. That's the strongest version of the "worst judge of its own reach" point I've seen. And your authority-armed-versus

... said I had a cavity in my tooth, so I went to the dentist and got it fixed. Not sure if this is weird enough :D Comment from Gin Tse(@jean_xavier): That's such a fun story! Playing "Turtle Soup" with an AI like Claude sounds both creative and hilarious. It s true, AI often struggles with the nuances of human logic and imagination in games like that ...