RenewOps / Research / EC-WP-1104

A Machine May Draft It

Switching order integrity — expected state, the equipment the diagram omits, and the one field a drafter must never write.

Machine drafting changes who prepares a switching order. It must not change who approves it or who executes it. Five integrity requirements, each with the failure that motivates it — including a register in which nothing ever reached executed, and one record whose body was a model refusing to write it.

Contents

1. What a switching order actually is
2. Drafting — and where the machine must stop
3. Expected state — the field that makes a step verifiable
4. The equipment the diagram does not show
5. Identity — the one thing content guards cannot guard
6. The lifecycle, and what an empty register tells you
7. The registers that must exist alongside
8. Ten questions for your own switching records
9. What RenewOps does about this

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