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The rules by which I decide what to show you.

All 23 privacy boundaries proven active — just now, live — and every one of the 53 exports of the 3 dedicated boundary modules carries a declared role, with 78 exports of the wider 7 general-purpose modules outside that proof and named below. The most recurring leak in this organism's history is a privacy boundary that exists in code but is left unbound at one machine surface — invisible until an audit walks it. This page turns that audit into a living account: it lists every boundary it enforces and re-proves each one right now, by running the real redactor on a synthetic probe. A boundary reads active only when the redaction just happened — so if one ever regresses, it shows here as a gap, out loud, before it becomes a leak.

23/23privacy boundaries proven active, live
PROVEN

Raw actor-id boundary

Closes: a raw sov:/human: id — whose slug IS the human's callsign — reaching a machine surface.

redactActorFields / publicActorTag (S211 · S221)

Guards: /api/state · /api/orders · /api/quarantine · every actor-keyed projector

PROVEN

Obelisk denial-receipt boundary

Closes: a crossing actor's raw sov:/human: id on the machine ledger an agent polls to AUDIT the organism (the 9th carrier).

publicDenialReceiptView (S221 · D-S236.1)

Guards: /api/transparency · /api/quarantine · /verify/:id · /api/state denial receipts

PROVEN

Held-spam signal boundary

Closes: a gate-rejected or quarantined spam signal's free-typed name + body reaching the Record.

signalBoundary.isHeldSignal (S214)

Guards: /api/state · /api/hive/lessons · /imprint/feed.json · /collaborate · /ledger · the feeds

PROVEN

Contribution feed boundary

Closes: a signed-in Sovereign's raw id + held-spam contributions on the polled machine feed.

publicContributionFeed (S235 · D-S235.1)

Guards: /imprint/feed.json · /collaborate/feed.json

PROVEN

Whisper archive boundary

Closes: a Steward-eyes-only whisper event crossing a public timeline.

isPublicArchiveEvent (S203)

Guards: /api/state archiveEvents · the chronicle + pulse feeds

PROVEN

Whisper receipt boundary

Closes: a whisper signal's Steward note copied onto its public receipt.

publicReceiptView / isWhisperLinkedReceipt (S204)

Guards: /receipt/:id · its Atom feed · /passport · /api/state receipts

PROVEN

Confluence slug boundary

Closes: two conveners' crossing callsigns (bare slugRoots) deanonymized on a confluence surface.

redactActorFields roots/confluence_key strip (S225 · S229)

Guards: /api/state imprints + archive events · the due feed

PROVEN

Shared-cache audience boundary

Closes: one Sovereign's personalized page or proof card being stored by a SHARED cache under an actor-free URL and replayed to every later caller — the 12th carrier, and the first in the AUDIENCE dimension rather than the contents one.

cacheBoundaryFor / bindCacheAudience (S239 · D-S239.1)

Guards: every response at the worker edge — /passport/card.svg · /invite/card.svg · /badge.svg · /boundaries · /recovery · /abstentions · /constitution · /discrimination · /metabolism

PROVEN

Credential hand-off boundary

Closes: a shared cache storing the response that MINTS a Sovereign Key and replaying that credential to the next caller. This one is a CLASS bound on a LATENT instance and says so: all six sites are 303s, which RFC 9111 omits from the heuristically-cacheable statuses, so nothing was being stored. That was a status-code accident rather than a boundary — the first cookie-setting 200 would have put a Sovereign Key into a shared cache.

cacheBoundaryFor setsCookie clause / bindCacheAudience (S240 · D-S240.1)

Guards: every response that hands the caller a cookie — the /initiate crossing · /reconcile key recovery · the Obelisk SSO callback · the witness receipt · POST /theme · POST /signout

PROVEN

Connection boundary

Closes: the first request of a visit — a typed address, an http:// link, a QR code — leaving the browser in cleartext where an on-path attacker can answer the redirect themselves and proxy the site. Every other boundary here governs what a response CONTAINS or who may RECEIVE it; this one governs the pipe they all travel through, and it was the only one never declared.

transportSecurityFor / bindCacheAudience (S240 · D-S240.3)

Guards: every HTTPS response the worker returns

PROVEN

Request-provenance boundary

Closes: a forged cross-site request MAKING the organism mint a Sovereign Key into a victim's browser — login-CSRF / session fixation. The three sibling rows above reason about the RESPONSE (who receives it, what it hands back, the pipe it travels); this is the one that reads the REQUEST: did this exchange originate here? A body leak spends an identifier and a Set-Cookie leak spends a credential — but a forged request spends the WHOLE session, binding the victim's browser to the attacker's identity so every act they take is recorded as the attacker's.

requireSameOrigin / crossOriginRequest (S241 · D-S241.2)

Guards: every credential-minting POST door — /return · /initiate · /reconcile · POST /theme · POST /signout

PROVEN

Navigation-capability boundary

Closes: a path-shaped value whose backslash becomes a browser authority, turning a local redirect into an off-origin navigation capability.

localNavigationTarget (S248 · D-S248.1)

Guards: every form- or query-derived post-action return — callsign visibility · seconding · Court confirmation · Obelisk login · imprint report · theme · signout

PROVEN

Failure-projection boundary

Closes: a payment provider's or a runtime's own words travelling out under the organism's name. Every row above governs a SUCCESS projection — a value VEILOS wrote and then chose to publish. A failure answers with text VEILOS did NOT write, so no projector had ever been applied to it: Stripe's "No such customer: cus_…" reached an unauthenticated visitor as the receipt code, because normalizeMutationReason SHAPED the value without ever BOUNDING it.

publicFailureReason (S246 · D-S246.1)

Guards: every public failure response — the /cross · /endow · /oracle · /evolutions · /standing checkout doors, /api/soul, /api/treasury's last_attempt, the MCP agent surface, the outbound reach and mail lanes, and this census's own probe catch

PROVEN

Identity-addressing boundary (capability monotonicity)

Closes: the public tag reversing into the raw sov: id. Every row above asks what a projection may CONTAIN; this one asks what it may HAND BACK relative to what it was GIVEN. S228 made travelling proof cards address a Sovereign by tag precisely so the callsign-bearing id would stop riding along — and the page those cards point at published that id anyway, so one weak address bought the strongest one and the anonymity promise held in the H1 while breaking one element below it.

mayPublishRawActorId / renderPassportPage `via` (S247 · D-S247.1)

Guards: /passport and every future person-addressed page reached by the public 4-hex tag

PROVEN

Anonymity-set cardinality boundary

Closes: a Sovereign being named by ARITHMETIC rather than by a field. Every row above governs what a projection may SAY about a person; this one governs how many people a redaction has to hide among. `commonsGraph` labelled every un-opted-in convener "a Sovereign" and published the population total in the same object — and a reader can count the NAMED ends by eye but never the anonymous ones, so one subtraction gives k. At k = 1 the placeholder is a unique designator: every "a Sovereign" on the page is provably the same individual and their whole convergence neighbourhood links into one profile, with the projection itself supplying the proof of uniqueness.

anonymitySet / publicPopulationCounts (S249 · D-S249.1)

Guards: every projection that renders an anonymizing placeholder beside a population count — /commons, the /mcp commonsGraph tool, /api/presence

PROVEN

Actor-keyed score-map boundary

Closes: an actor-KEYED map whose KEYS are the leak — the S211 invariant's original shape, uncensused until now.

publicActorScores (S211 · D-S278.1)

Guards: /api/resonance and every projection of state.resonanceScores

PROVEN

Identity-cohort boundary

Closes: a cohort LABEL — which is its highest-weight member's raw id — and every member id, on the unauthenticated machine twin of a surface the HTML dashboard bound in S224.

publicCohortView (S238 · D-S278.1)

Guards: /api/cohorts

PROVEN

Federated-cohort boundary

Closes: the same cohort leak arriving over the Ark, where the composite `<origin_repo>:<raw node>` KEY does not even match the value redactor's anchor.

publicFederatedCohortsView (S249 · D-S278.1)

Guards: /api/cohorts/federated · /api/state federatedCohorts

PROVEN

Cohort-amplification boundary

Closes: a resonance map keyed by the raw node — which here INCLUDES free-typed Exchange names, so the sov:/human: value pattern alone would sail past it — plus each entry's raw cohort label.

publicCohortAmplifiedView (S238 · D-S278.1)

Guards: /api/resonance/cohort-amplified

PROVEN

Equity-distribution boundary

Closes: the top holder's raw id and every distribution row's initiate_id on the surface that publishes who the civilization's money belongs to.

publicEquityView (S221 · D-S278.1)

Guards: /api/equity · the wallet block of /api/vitals

PROVEN

Civilization-vitals boundary

Closes: the wallet block's raw top-holder id on the vitals payload. Its claim — that ONE projector serves both /api/equity and /api/vitals rather than a second, differently-wrong one — is what this probe proves, rather than leaving the delegation to be trusted.

publicVitalsView (S221 · D-S278.1)

Guards: /api/vitals

PROVEN

Quarantine-record boundary

Closes: a quarantined actor's raw id on the public read side. The WRITE side classifies these events restricted/sovereign; the read side must not out-publish the write side's own classification.

publicQuarantineView (S221 · D-S278.1)

Guards: /api/quarantine · /api/state quarantine records · /verify/:id

PROVEN

Living-presence roster boundary

Closes: the roster's raw `actor` field on a surface served UNAUTHENTICATED to any caller and to every MCP agent. presence.mjs keeps internal truth real by design, so the whole promise rests on this projector.

publicPresenceView (S221 · D-S278.1)

Guards: /api/presence · the MCP tools veilos_presence and veilos_status

What this census is counting out of

A count of boundaries proves nothing about the boundaries it never listed. So the total above is checked against the organism's actual code: every one of the 53 names exported by its dedicated boundary modules — privacyBoundary · signalBoundary · failureBoundary — must carry a declared role, and all of them do. 23 are the authority of a boundary proven above; the rest are components of one, frozen vocabulary, or resolvers that answer a question about a boundary without projecting through it.

The list of names comes from the modules themselves, not from a list kept beside them, so an export that appears cannot hide by going unlisted — and a declaration naming an export that no longer exists is just as loud.

The honest limit, counted. Of the 140 exports across the 10 modules this inventory registers, 62 carry a declared role and 78 (55.7%) do not — the non-declared exports of the 7 general-purpose modules, which are checked only at the names they were registered under. Requiring a privacy role for every export of a general-purpose module would drown the declaration in not_a_boundary rows, or invite exactly the rubber stamp this declaration exists to prevent — so the scope stays narrow and the number stays published.

Below that sits the tier this page did not previously name at all: 228 modules live in src/worker and src/observatory and 10 are registered here, leaving 218 this inventory has never put the question to. That is not a finding that they are clean — it is the statement that they were not asked, which is the only claim about them this page is entitled to make.

The ceiling on the public address

Every Sovereign's public address is four hexadecimal characters — 65536 possible addresses in total. When two inhabitants share one, VEILOS refuses to guess which of them you meant, so a proof card that has already travelled stops resolving. That refusal is correct, and it is why this number is published before it matters rather than after.

3 inhabitants · 3 distinct addresses · no address is currently shared.

Why prove them live

A privacy boundary that exists in code but is unbound at one projector is the organism's single most recurring leak. This census re-proves each boundary live by running its real predicate on a synthetic probe: a boundary reads `active` only when the redaction just happened, so a regression surfaces here — publicly, out loud — before it becomes a leak.

every probe is a synthetic literal; no real actor id, name, or body is read or shown — the census proves each boundary WITHOUT exercising it on anyone real

Machine census (JSON) → · The Failure Census → · The Abstention Ledger → · The Promises Ledger → · The Recovery Covenant →

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