# IF.GOV.PANEL (legacy: IF.GUARD)

## Role

A multi-voice governance panel that reviews high-stakes decisions.

- Minimum form: `IF.GOV.PANEL` (5 seats, includes contrarian)
- Expanded form: `IF.GOV.PANEL.EXTENDED` (up to ~30 seats)

## Responsibilities

- deliberate on a proposed action/response
- preserve dissent (minority opinions remain visible)
- record votes and rationale as an auditable artifact

## Non-responsibilities

- not a latency-optimized mechanism for low-stakes chat
- not a substitute for a human clinical board (mental-health-adjacent domains require explicit constraints)

## Inputs

- `TRIAGE` output (risk tier + recommended panel size)
- the proposed action/response
- evidence references (retrieval ids / citations / prior traces)

## Outputs

- allow / modify / block decision
- votes + dissent record
- escalation/appeal hooks (if applicable)

## Required evidence

- signed `PANEL` decision record under `IF.AUDIT.TRAIL`
- link to the exact proposal bytes that were voted on (hash)
- trace id included in final user-visible output
