Wanble

What follows is computer language. Wanble (pronounced wɑhn-blee) is not a policy layer, a logic engine, or a human process.

A Constrained Continuity Notation Downstream of Legitimacy

Threshold decides. It produces binary results: clear or does not clear. Those results are final. After that, something else has to happen.

Wanble has two tasks.

First, Wanble assigns a Window Eligibility State (WES) to information as it exits Threshold. WES is not a new decision. It is the recorded result that eligibility is sufficient to appear in the Window. WES does not describe content, merit, approval, or intent. It records only that eligibility is settled and non-revisitable downstream.

Second, Wanble governs post-decision continuity. It does not preserve the internal structure of a decision. The Threshold vector is collapsed and sealed. What remains is a constrained continuity state that permits or terminates downstream propagation without explanation, interpretation, or revision.

0. Orientation

Wanble exists to prevent interpretive authority from re-entering a system after legitimacy has been decided.

It’s intentionally less powerful than it could be. Its purpose is not to explain outcomes, optimize behavior, or guide policy. Its purpose is to terminate meaning at the correct boundary so that authority cannot accumulate downstream through narrative, interpretation, or cleverness.

Non-goals (explicit):

Wanble is not a language.
Wanble is not a policy system.
Wanble is not an evaluator.
Wanble is not an optimization surface.
Wanble is not a governance mechanism.

Any design pressure that pushes Wanble toward these roles is treated as a failure mode, not an enhancement.

I. Placement in the Architecture

I.1 Threshold

Threshold is the sole legitimacy decision boundary.

Threshold produces a binary decision. The decision may be derived from a multi-dimensional vector.
That vector is sealed at the point of decision. No downstream component may observe, inspect, or reason over the vector.

Legitimacy is decided once, upstream, and nowhere else.

I.2 Collapse

Following Threshold, the legitimacy vector is irreversibly collapsed.

There is no partial visibility.
There is no downstream inference.
There is no recoverable structure.

Collapse is intentional. It exists to eliminate interpretive surfaces.

I.3 Wanble

Wanble is the residue of collapse. It records continuity, not legitimacy.

It carries no instruction.
It grants no permission.
It conveys no explanation.

Wanble doesn’t say why something cleared. It only describes what continuity exists after legitimacy has been decided.

I.4 Downstream Boundaries

Downstream systems:

Gate execution solely on the presence or absence of a valid Wanble state, perform no secondary legitimacy checks, introduce no interpretive or policy layers.

II. Core Design Principles (Load-Bearing)

• Binary upstream, descriptive downstream
• Finality over correctness
• Silence as a valid terminal state
• No retries, no decay, no revalidation
• Time-stable states
• Zero fan-out propagation
• Cache-first short-circuiting
• Bounded observability to prevent telemetry storms

These aren’t optimizations. They’re constraints.

III. Responsibility and Non-Powers

This system is intentionally designed to remove interpretive and corrective authority from designers, operators, and stewards.

The constraints below are structural non-powers. If any are violated, the system described here no longer exists.

1. No Interpretive Authority

Wanble states do not carry explanation. They encode no reasons, conditions, implications, intent, or judgment. Silence is enforcement.

2. No Privileged Visibility

Threshold vectors are sealed. They are not observable, inspectable, or debuggable by any party. Absence of visibility is a design requirement.

3. No Post-Collapse Control

Once Threshold collapses, outcomes are final. There are no retries, reversals, exception paths, or emergency overrides. If the system is wrong, it fails early and remains wrong.

4. No Conditional Expression

The system does not express “yes, but” or “no, unless.” Threshold decides legitimacy. Wanble records continuity. Vectors never instruct. Symbols never explain.

5. No Secondary Reasoning

Downstream execution is gated solely by the presence or absence of a valid Wanble state. There are no policy engines, scoring layers, optimization surfaces, or interpretive middleware. Absence terminates processing silently.

6. No Expansion by Cleverness

Wanble has a finite symbol set grounded in continuity, not semantics. Any extension that requires explanation invalidates Wanble by definition.

7. No Moral Claims

The system makes no claims of fairness, correctness, optimality, or intent. Legitimacy is structural, not moral.

8. No Human Authorship

Wanble is a constrained notation, not a language. No party speaks through the system.

9. No Conversion of Meaning

Wanble may not function as a proxy. It cannot be treated as a score, rank, permission tier, risk signal, pricing input, or policy justification.

10. Refusal Must Remain Survivable

Ordinary use must not make refusal costly, suspicious, or harmful. If refusal becomes mechanically punitive at scale, legitimacy does not clear.

11. No Simulated Efficiency

Any efficiency gains arise only from avoided computation. No downstream evaluators or hidden execution layers are permitted.

12. Misuse Does Not Degrade — It Voids

Misuse is not recoverable. Interpretation, optimization, or policy substitution invalidates the system.

IV. Wanble as Notation (Not a Language)

IV.1 Nature of the Notation

Wanble is:

• finite
• non-executable
• non-semantic
• non-queryable

It has no grammar, no syntax tree, and no inference rules.

IV.2 What a Wanble State Is

A complete Wanble state consists of:

• a single continuity glyph
• a scope of applicability
• a temporal binding
• provenance to a Threshold event

Nothing else.

IV.3 What a Wanble State Is Not

A Wanble state is not:

• a reason
• a condition
• an implication
• a recommendation
• a probability
• an explanation

V. Canonical Symbol Set (v1)

The initial symbol set is intentionally small and closed:

• Active
• Paused
• Contingent
• Blocked
• Expired
• Silent

Rules:

Symbols describe continuity only
No weights, gradients, or rankings
No compound symbols
No interpretive overlays

VI. Temporal Properties

Emission occurs only after Threshold
States do not decay
States are not refreshed or renewed
Change occurs only via a new Threshold event
Silence persists as silence

VII. Visibility and the Window

VII.1 Window Eligibility State (WES)

WES is: