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The Promotion Ladder · public criteria

Authority is earned, not configured

Every APIR agent holds a trust band. The band is computed from the evidence-gated trust score, receipted work history, tenure, and the incident record, and it caps what the agent may do. Promotion is automatic. Demotion is automatic. Nobody, including APIR, can hand an agent authority its record hasn't earned.

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Promotion is automatic

Bands read from EXECUTED work only: drafts and pending actions count for nothing. When the record earns the next band, the agent gets it, receipted and sealed into its tamper-evident work log.

Demotion is automatic

A drift event, an open critical incident, or a quarantine drops the band and narrows scope immediately. No appeals to marketing.

Enforced by the math

The band ceiling is checked inside ARBITER adjudication, at the database. A mandate can grant scope; the band still caps it. Binding actions stay human-held at every band.

Tenure compounds: a two-year agent with tens of thousands of clean receipts has a longer record to check than a fresh clone, and that record is tamper-evident and bound to one agent. Band criteria are read live from the same table the database enforces. Verify any agent's passport.

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