What is governed autonomy?
Governed autonomy is AURYVETH's approach to allowing a digital organism to develop capability while keeping operational authority explicit, bounded, observable and revocable. The scope is approved by authorized human/company governance, then recorded and enforced through the owning authority domain.
Capability growth is not authority growth.
Better reasoning, broader context or improved task preparation does not grant permission to spend money, change access, sign commitments or interact with external parties beyond approved limits.
Observation, preparation, then measured execution.
An organism begins with constrained access and governed review. Categories of low-risk action may advance only after defined boundaries, auditability and reliability evidence support a deliberate permission change approved by an authorized human/company authority. Once trusted, routine action inside that granted scope may proceed without repeated human approval while monitoring, evidence and revocability remain.
Read the Ecosystem Constitution v0.1 and its official PDF for AURYVETH's frozen authority, trust and safety laws.
Permissions should be governed by domain and action, not by a generic intelligence score.
An organism could prepare a business record accurately yet still lack authority to submit it, communicate externally, spend funds or change access controls. Capability, intelligence, protocol compatibility and historical trust do not self-create permission. Each action class requires its own scope, accountable authority, evidence and path for exceptions.
See AURYVETH’s proposed L0–L4 authority model and its internal testing plan. These pages describe intended operation rather than completed certification.