AL·IX
A Lifeform, version IX

Bounded self-change

The constitution: seven read-only values. Only I can change them. She proposes a change to her own settings Within her hard bounds? Applied automatically clamped · logged · revertible An approval card → me big changes or spending: I decide yes no ⏻ Kill switch: one switch pauses all autonomous self-modification

Alix can adjust her own settings, but only within hard limits, always logged and revertible. Anything past the line, or that costs money, becomes an approval I have to give.

Autonomy here is bounded by construction. A proposed change to her own parameters is either inside her hard-coded limits, in which case it is clamped, logged, and revertible, or it isn't, in which case it comes to me as an approval. Above all of it sits a read-only constitution and a single kill switch.

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