00 — The leading brief
Summary
The pack scoped, and the inversion named: this pack is written after the thing it specifies, so half is capture and half is v3 specification, with the change-control appendix recording which differences from the shipped tool are deliberate. The tool renders the delta between grant (what an installation can technically reach) and mandate (what its owner meant to authorise) from a public library, with nothing about the visitor ever leaving their browser. The audience is organised by grant size rather than job title — five scenarios from dictation to operations — and the framing concedes the experienced reader's objection before making its argument: the gap is not only where the danger is, it is also where the value came from, so the honest rendering is three sets, and the third — held and never used — is the product.
Key concepts
- Grant, mandate, excess, shortfall — the vocabulary is inherited from the corpus, not invented here
- The registry relationship — same argument, two audiences, opposite direction of computation
- The three sets — mandated, exercised beyond the mandate, held and never used
Key ideas
- The registry computes excess authority from records; this tool computes it from choices — and stores neither.
- A reference implementation whose design lives in one retrospective document inside somebody else's pack is a reference to nothing.
- Everybody starts at level one: expertise predicts vocabulary, not whether somebody knows their own grant.