RFC-020: Governed Autonomy, Symbolic Intent, and D-DNA Evidence — 11. Symbolic Governance Language

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11. Symbolic Governance Language

AIGP defines the need for a symbolic governance language for agentic and autonomous systems.

This language is not a natural-language replacement for human conversation. It is a formal governance notation that compiles into canonical machine policy.

A minimal symbolic governance sentence includes:

subject
action
object
context
authority
condition
permission or denial
obligation
escalation
evidence

Example:

◎drone.042 → search ◇zone.A
✓ if ⌘operator ∧ ⛶inside ∧ sensor.healthy
↩ if comms.loss > 10s
#D-DNA{event:action.permitted, hash:sha256:8f3a...}

Human explanation:

Drone 042 may search Zone A only while operator authority is present, it remains inside the approved boundary, and sensors are healthy. If communication is lost for more than 10 seconds, it must return to base. The decision is recorded in D-DNA.

The human explanation is not the source of truth.

The source of truth is:

canonical symbolic statement
canonical AST
compiled runtime constraint
D-DNA event

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