Accountable Delegated Authority (ADA)
A⁵O Governance Operator™ – Lean 4
Accountable Delegated Authority (ADA)
A Machine-Checked Necessity Result for Accountable Delegated Authority
For thirty years the logic of delegated authority rested on pen and paper. I ran it through a machine.
A machine-checked result in Lean 4. A six-condition predicate for accountable delegated authority: cryptographic binding, identity, mandate, scope, revocation dominance, and appointment. Necessity direction, converse disclaimed. Zero sorry.
The paper, dated 28 August 2026, is sealed and timestamped on the Bitcoin blockchain:
Block 964554, transaction
78f1c12071618375df1f23410075da604c171583009fe4eb69300c0717923172
Block 964600, transaction
457d89db25e656defc38137eec928517dfb32e778629687bb359dd54827d32fd
Download the sealed paper (28 August 2026 edition)
Record status
Two signed corrections were issued on 6 and 7 September 2026. The 7 September correction addresses the axioms of the sealed Lean source. In the repaired source, the single-governor result is conditional on a named hypothesis on the signature predicate.
Neither correction alters the sealed paper, its timestamps, or the sealed provenance record.
The corrected Lean 4 source, the corrections and the verification record are held on the private record of AgentOBO Inc. They are not publicly available.
Verified, not ratified.

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