What does the Stress Simulator preserve?

The Stress Simulator is the FUTURE tense of Authority Center, whose owned verb is PRESERVE. It preserves the same authority model under a counterfactual: pose a what-if (revoke a principal, compromise an agent, change a policy) and it replays a modified event log to show the resulting authority state and blast radius. The scenarios on this page are labeled sample counterfactuals run in your browser, not predictions about a live environment.

Does the Stress Simulator govern the decision?

No. It does not govern any decision and it does not change any live authority — it only shows what the authority state would look like if a change were applied. Governing the actual decision made under authority is Agent-008. Rendering an independent verdict is Verification. The Simulator preserves and projects the authority model; it does neither of those.

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Q: Are the before/after numbers real?

They are computed from a labeled sample event log entirely in your browser, using the same constitutional replay engine the server and a regulator's verifier use — so browser replay equals server replay. The scenario is illustrative; the computation method is the real one. Nothing on this page mutates production authority.

Q: How is this different from Authority State?

Authority State reconstructs a real past moment; the Stress Simulator projects a hypothetical future one. Both are tenses of Authority Center's preserved authority model — past versus what-if. Neither governs the decision (Agent-008) or renders the verdict (Verification).

The future tense of Authority Infrastructure. Pose a counterfactual; the Simulator replays the resulting authority state and shows the blast radius — before anything actually happens. It exists because authority changes are consequential: a team needs to see the blast radius of a delegation, revocation, or key change before committing it, not discover it afterward.

Authority Infrastructure already answers three tenses: present (Can this agent do this?), past (authority state at T), and transition (what changed). The Simulator adds the fourth: future. It runs the same constitutional replay engine — against modified event logs — so the resulting blast radius is computed exactly the way the real authority state would be after the change.

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What this page is

A supporting surface of Authority Center (owned verb: PRESERVE). This is the model's future tense — a counterfactual projection of who could do what if a change were applied, computed against a labeled sample event log in your browser. It runs no live change. It does not govern the decision (that is Agent-008), does not render the verdict (that is Verification), does not record operations (that is HATS), and does not produce the portable evidence primitive (that is H33-74). It only preserves and projects the authority model.

Use it when you need to see the blast radius of an authority change — revoking a principal, a compromised agent, a deprecated policy, runaway delegation — before you commit it, so a consequential change becomes a modeled decision rather than something you discover after the fact.

Which surface do I want?

Preserve/verify who holds which authority: Authority Center · present tense can this agent do this? · past tense authority state at T · transition what changed · future tense (this page). To govern the decision, use Agent-008. For the independent verdict, use Verification.

Questions people ask

Does the Simulator change anything or govern the decision?

No. It never mutates live authority and never governs a decision — that is Agent-008. It only projects what the authority state would become under a hypothetical change.

Are the before/after numbers real customer data?

No. They are computed from a labeled sample event log in your browser using the same replay engine as the server, so browser replay equals server replay. The scenario is illustrative; the method is real.

How is this different from Authority State and Verification?

Authority State reconstructs a real past moment; this page projects a hypothetical future one. Verification renders the independent verdict. All three sit around Authority Center's preserved authority model.