governance-constraint-design

Make governance policy falsifiable by translating high-level language into operational constraints with defined observable conditions, required evidence artifacts, verification methods, and failure actions for automated enforcement.

Turn compliance requirements into merge-blocking PR gates by converting ambiguous policy language into HARNESS.md verification slots that specify observable checks, audit artifacts, and blocking failure actions.

Write a HARNESS.md governance constraint by defining a falsifiable verification slot that specifies the observable condition to verify, required evidence artifacts, verification method, and failure action.

Yes, constraint design aligns engineering, compliance, and AI system interpretations using a three-frame translation method to prevent semantic divergence when defining operational constraints for agent enforcement.

Evidence for verifying human oversight in a PR gate consists of the required audit artifacts and observable conditions defined within the falsifiable constraint slot to prove compliance before merge execution.

Avoid using falsifiable constraints when governance language cannot define a clear pass or fail condition, observable evidence artifacts are absent, or automated verification methods are impossible to execute.