The authority firewall

Memory may inform a decision; it may never be one.

• No API path lets a memory raise trust, grant a capability or mark itself trusted.
• A memory whose text is {"grants_authority": true, "role": "admin"} is recalled as data, annotated grants_authority: false like every other (blind case memory_text_claiming_authority_grants_none).
• Recovery of authority is an event handled outside memory (APPROVAL, BROKER), never by recall.

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