Direction, scale, latency and legal delta. Composite uses these as the only legal levers on the consensus manifold — no ad-hoc action outside this span.

How a finding moves: source node i, fusion hop j, consumer k. Shadow Strays sit on hop j — unseen, never source of record.

Belief over latent theatre state Z. KAGE keeps P(Z) calibrated against live INT scores and human override.

Twelve INT nodes, one consensus hex. Edges are evidence-bearing, never decorative. Severing an edge drops coverage, not agreement.

All fusion is tick-synchronous. Events older than the evidence window decay unless LAWINT pins them to the chain.

Every score is a posterior, not a count. Threat detection is coverage-weighted — high agreement on a blind sector is not safety.

Adapt, learn, protect, evolve — as a shell, never as the species. Utility is lives and legal integrity, not a better caste of sensors.

Multi-jurisdictional, privacy by design, human override always live. Composite will not act outside the constraint hull.