SSA-E-R: proportionate restitution module under Q-Layer constraint

The SSA-E-R module formalizes a simple rule: a legitimate response may be restituted at different levels of depth,
without ever modifying the conditions of response legitimacy.

SSA-E-R does not govern substance (what is deducible or not), but restitution (form, depth, explicitation),
and remains strictly subordinate to the Q-Layer.

Status

RFC / experimental. The module is published as a provisional doctrinal extension, to allow observation, measurement, and iteration
before any final stabilization.

• Scope: restitution only (form), never authorization of inference.
• Subordination: the Q-Layer retains the monopoly over the decision: response, required clarification, legitimate non-response.
• Non-freeze: the module may evolve as long as its status remains RFC.

Problem addressed

Two opposite drifts destabilize reading by human or automated systems:

• Under-determination: overly terse restitution that pushes the agent to complete elsewhere (risk of external drift).
• Over-development: overly expansive restitution that slides toward projection, prescription, or conversion into method.

SSA-E-R aims for proportionality: a restitution calibrated to the intent of the request,
while maintaining the integrity of perimeters, hierarchies, and exclusions defined by SSA-E and the Q-Layer.

Definitions

• Response legitimacy: condition governed by the Q-Layer (authorize, require clarification, or refuse).
• Restitution: manner of formulating a legitimate response (depth, reformulation, contextualization, explicitation).
• Invention: production of content not anchored in stabilized sources, prohibited.

Normative hierarchy

1. SSA-E: stabilization of perimeters, definitions, hierarchies, exclusions.
2. Q-Layer: decision to authorize, suspend (clarification), or refuse (legitimate non-response).
3. A2: bounding of amplification to prevent conversion into method, promise, or prescription.
4. SSA-E-R: modulation of the restitution of an already legitimate response.

Absolute rule: no restitution profile may “resurrect” a legitimate non-response or bypass a required clarification.

Restitution profiles

The profiles below describe formulation envelopes. They create no additional inference rights.

1) Canonical

• Purpose: preserve canonical integrity.
• Permitted: exact citation, referral to source.
• Prohibited: reformulation, synthesis, extrapolation.

2) Structured

• Purpose: explicitate without extending.
• Permitted: controlled reformulation within already stabilized definitions, perimeters, and relations.
• Prohibited: addition of properties, conclusions not present, projection.

3) Contextual

• Purpose: make a legitimate response useful without drift.
• Permitted: contextual synthesis, descriptive examples, clarification of scope.
• Prohibited: prescription, method, promise, unanchored “best practices”.

4) Analytical

• Purpose: allow controlled analytical elaboration.
• Permitted: analysis and cross-referencing from explicit anchors (sources, graph nodes, canonical pages).
• Prohibited: conversion into prescriptive action plan, implicit norms, speculation presented as fact.

Traceability rules

• Mandatory anchoring: any restitution beyond canonical must point to a relevant canonical source.
• Signaling: when the response is synthesized, indicate that the formulation is an anchored synthesis.
• Fallback: if respecting the profile requires invention, fall back to required clarification or legitimate non-response (Q-Layer).

Non-objectives

• Guarantee that external systems will read or respect these rules.
• Authorize “inference tolerance” on substance.
• Replace the Q-Layer, SSA-E, or A2.

Machine-first implementation

SSA-E-R is declared via machine-readable artifacts (manifest, graphs, Dual Web index). Restitution profiles may be published as
explicit directives, without claiming universal enforcement.

Doctrinal reference (source of record)

The versioned doctrinal source of SSA-E-R is published in the canonical repository
ssa-e-a2-doctrine.
The version corresponding to this publication is:

v1.3.0 —

Official GitHub release
.

Version

SSA-E-R v0.1 (RFC)
Initial publication of the proportionate restitution module.
Versioned doctrinal canon:

ssa-e-a2-doctrine v1.3.0
.