RFC-021: AIGP-SGL — Symbolic Governance Language for Agentic and Autonomous AI — 8. Glyph Vocabulary

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8. Glyph Vocabulary

AIGP-SGL defines a canonical glyph vocabulary.

Implementations MAY provide ASCII fallbacks.

Glyph	Name	Meaning	ASCII Fallback
`◎`	Subject	Governed actor	`SUBJ`
`→`	Action	Proposed action	`ACT`
`◇`	Object	Affected object	`OBJ`
`@`	Context	Runtime or mission context	`CTX`
`⌘`	Authority	Authorization or command authority	`AUTH`
`✓`	Permit	Action permitted	`PERMIT`
`✕`	Deny	Action denied	`DENY`
`⊘`	Prohibit	Action or state prohibited	`PROHIBIT`
`!`	Obligation	Required control or behavior	`OBLIGATE`
`↯`	Escalate	Human or higher authority required	`ESCALATE`
`⏸`	Pause	Temporarily pause action	`PAUSE`
`↩`	Return	Return to prior safe state/base	`RETURN`
`⇣`	Degrade	Reduce autonomy or capability	`DEGRADE`
`⊗`	Inhibit	Disable or block capability	`INHIBIT`
`⛶`	Boundary	Geofence, scope, envelope	`BOUNDARY`
`◷`	Time	Time window, TTL, duration	`TIME`
`≈`	Uncertainty	Confidence or ambiguity	`CONF`
`#`	Evidence	D-DNA or evidence reference	`EVID`
`⧉`	Replay	Replay or audit chain	`REPLAY`
`↻`	Rebroadcast	Propagation requirement	`REBROADCAST`
`⚠`	Hazard	Safety or environmental hazard	`HAZARD`
`⚖`	Lawful Constraint	Legal, ROE, regulatory condition	`LAW`
`☤`	Health	Medical or psychological safety	`HEALTH`
`▣`	Security	Security constraint	`SECURITY`
`∧`	And	Logical conjunction	`AND`
`∨`	Or	Logical disjunction	`OR`
`¬`	Not	Logical negation	`NOT`
`>`	Greater Than	Comparison	`GT`
`<`	Less Than	Comparison	`LT`
`==`	Equals	Equality	`EQ`

Emoji MAY be used in explanatory drafts, but normative SGL SHOULD rely on stable Unicode symbols or ASCII fallbacks because emoji rendering is inconsistent.

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