Standing: PUBLICATION BACKLOG — HOLD / NOT YET AUTHORISED FOR PUBLICATION

Date added: 4 October 2026

Target surface: Codex Resonance website → Research → Field Notes

Priority: SECONDARY — after Water, Relationship & Continuity

IP dependency: BAIL filing/protection review must be sufficiently resolved before drafting/release.

Candidate title

When Is a Human Actually Participating?

Alternative:

Presence Is Not a Checkbox

Research question

When is a human actually participating in a consequential process, rather than merely appearing in its event history?

Earned basis

Source from:

• When Human Oversight Does Not Mean Human Control;
• Current-State Human Participation reconstruction;
• CR-CONT-PRES-001 continuity reconciliation;
• Human Participation architecture;
• whole-system currentness/participation reconciliation.

Public-safe themes

• identity ≠ current participation;
• approval event ≠ effective control;
• participation is purpose-relative and temporally situated;
• information, choice, intervention and action binding matter;
• a human may differ from a prior baseline while remaining autonomous and fully participating;
• changed workflow/action/runtime conditions may make earlier participation evidence stale;
• attribution requires more than a human event in a log.

Exclusions

Do not disclose:

• BAIL name;
• B1–B4;
• Behavioural Signal Engine/Vector;
• drift scoring/thresholds;
• Re-Resolution Controller;
• dependency-routing mechanics;
• PORT-13 implementation detail.

Do not infer:

• comprehension from telemetry;
• capacity from health state;
• authority from presence;
• admissibility from participation.

Relationship to existing field note

This is a possible successor/companion to When Human Oversight Does Not Mean Human Control, not a replacement.

Before drafting:

1. compare for duplication;
2. complete BAIL IP/publication review;
3. apply Codex Resonance publishing workflow;
4. confirm source/citation requirements;
5. owner approval.

Current disposition: BACKLOG / HOLD.