FOUNDATIONS / 12-minute exercise

Map a human-presence decision

Define a decision, its evidence, and the outcome your application needs.

REAL-WORLD SCENARIO

Work through the decision.

A publishing agent is ready to release a message to a large public audience.

Your objective

Distinguish a human participation event from the account authority needed to publish.

Deliverable: Write an action-scoped participation statement and a separate authorization rule.

Activity steps

0 of 3 steps complete

01Write the exact question your workflow must answer.02List what the signal can and cannot prove.03Draft a minimal decision result.Your working notes

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Worked example

Participation: the operator reviewed release 84 during this session. Authorization: the operator account has the publish:announcements permission. A participation signal alone never grants that permission.

Quality check

Keep identity and presence as separate questions.
Define the exact action and the system that makes the decision.
State what cannot be inferred from the signal.

GO DEEPER

Continue with the source guide.

The companion guide provides the reasoning and trade-offs behind the exercise.

Read the companion guide