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IF.GOV.PANEL

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