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The structural requirement that modes be mutually exclusive at the level of commitment. Each mode forbids certain actions: Exploration cannot create binding commitments. Operation cannot redefine authority. Adjudication cannot be continuous. Stewardship cannot execute. Architecture cannot be improvised. Violating these invariants collapses distinctions between thinking, acting, judging, and redesigning.
If a system in Operate mode were allowed to also adjudicate disputes, it would gain discretionary rule-making power alongside execution authority—collapsing the distinction between following rules and creating them.
Section 3.3: Mode Separation as a Safety Invariant