Glossary
Rung
One step on the Right Path: stop, identity, write door, pre-gates, evaluate, guardrail, autonomy, act, proof, metered.
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Right Path
The Right Path is the fixed route every write takes in elan1 Govern, from rung 0b STOP to rung 9 METERED. On the way it checks identity, opens the write door, runs the pre-gates, evaluates versioned rules, applies a blast-radius guardrail and the autonomy check, acts, writes the proof record and meters the action.
In one sentence: The fixed route every write takes, from rung 0b STOP to rung 9 METERED.
01In more detail
What it means in practice
Five plain steps — ask, check, approve, act, record — map onto ten rungs. Any rung can refuse.
Every consequential change takes the same path, wherever it starts: an agent, the Decide router or a person in the console. An undo changes the books too, so it takes the same path and leaves its own record.
02Where this shows up in elan1
The kernel of elan1 Govern; the walkthrough at See a governed action.
04Questions
Right Path: common questions
Rung 0b STOP, 1 IDENTITY, 2 WRITE DOOR, 3 PRE-GATES, 4 evaluate(), 5 GUARDRAIL, 6 AUTONOMY, 7 ACT, 8 PROOF and 9 METERED. Any rung up to 6 can refuse a write with a typed reason.
No. Every write climbs the same rungs in the same order. At rung 3, six of the nine pre-gates can never be skipped, whatever the autonomy level.
Defined in the elan1 glossary · Last reviewed 10 Oct 2026. Definitions change only with a dated note.
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See the term in a governed action.
The walkthrough follows one write from intent to proof record, using the words in this glossary.