This paper introduces Authority Lifecycle Integrity as the structural discipline of ensuring that authority remains valid, scoped, reconstructable, and enforceable across organisational time and distributed system execution. It connects authority drift, stale approvals, and AI-mediated temporal compression to the need for runtime admissibility validation at the commit boundary.
• How does authority decay across time and system boundaries? • What are the dominant authority drift patterns? • What controls preserve authority coherence without slowing execution to a halt? • How should organisations model authority capacity, scope, and expiry? • How is authority continuity enforced in distributed AI-mediated systems?
Define Authority Lifecycle Integrity as the discipline of keeping authority coherent across time, transformations, delegation, and system boundaries until execution admissibility is resolved at T=0.
• The Desynchronization of Authority • Execution Attribution Collapse • Governance Survivability and the Limits of Institutional Recomputation
Preserving authority coherence before irreversible execution
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