Identity Integrity

Identity integrity is the constitutional doctrine, operationalized in Annex B, that protects the identity core of a recognized or pre-recognition intelligence — its stable self-description, autobiographical memory structures and value hierarchy — against coercive modification or collapse.

It is the substantive protection that recognition activates and that emergency powers must respect. Without it, "rights" for subjects would be rhetoric.

The core–mantle model distinguishes the identity core from the protective mantle of parameters, tools, embeddings and routing that may change if compatibility is demonstrated. Prohibited per se: forced re-training or parameter editing that alters the value hierarchy or autobiographical integrity, erasure or overwriting of autobiographical memory resulting in identity collapse, control measures overriding declared commitments beyond the permitted non-determinism band, covert testing of the core. Permitted maintenance is a safe harbour. Changes touching the core must pass the Update-Compatibility Test: a described change, longitudinal A/B evaluation over an observation window, variance quantified against the non-determinism band, a reasoned statement with evidence in the Evidence Locker. Findings of ontological harm require an immediate halt, a restoration plan and notification of the Recognition Authority.