otivm/docs/parameter-registry-additions.md

# Parameter Registry — Consolidated Additions
## Derived from corpus review: docs/law/, docs/commerce/, docs/economy/
## Date: 2026-04-30
## Status: Ready for project owner review before admission to docs/parameter-registry.md
## Prepared by: Game Development Assistant

---

## Editorial Notes

The existing registry (docs/parameter-registry.md, dated 2026-04-28) covers twelve canonical
actor parameters and supporting city, scenario, and relation parameters. The corpus review
identified two categories of new material:

**Category A — New parameters not present in any form in the existing registry.**
These require admission through the standard three-test process.

**Category B — Clarifications or extensions to existing parameters.**
These do not add new tokens but sharpen existing definitions or flag missing sub-fields.

All tokens follow Layer 3 naming convention (lowercase, snake_case) per terminology.md.
Observable status uses the existing vocabulary: full / partial / hidden.
Perceived vs true split is flagged where it applies — these require two records in schema,
not one. This is the non-negotiable constraint from the existing registry.

---

## Section 1 — Actor Parameters (new additions)

Parameters that live in the per-player database and drift over time.

---

### MANUMISSION_STATE
```
token:    manumission_state
scope:    actor
layer:    roman
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The formal legal status of freedom for an actor of servile origin. Distinct
from `IVS_ACCESSVS` (which measures practical legal standing) because manumission can be
granted in forms that confer freedom without full citizen rights. A freedman may be
manumitted, legally free to trade, and still face social ceilings that limit contract
enforceability. Captures the gap between formal liberation and practical standing.

**Type:** enum — enslaved / informally_freed / formally_freed / citizen  
**Observable:** full — the actor knows their own legal status, though others may dispute it  
**Perceived vs true:** applies — others may treat a formally freed actor as if informally freed,
creating a gap between legal reality and social treatment  

**Drift mechanics:**
- Changes through legal manumission events only — not through drift
- Affects `IVS_ACCESSVS`, `AVCTORITA` starting band, and contract enforceability

**Background starting values:**
- Freedman Trader: formally_freed
- All others: citizen or not applicable

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0002 (The Captive's Inheritance)

---

### KNOWLEDGE_ASSET
```
token:    knowledge_asset
scope:    actor
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Information held exclusively by an actor that has market or legal value
independent of their formal status. The captive who knows names, seals, and inheritance
amounts that no one else can verify. The captain who knows route measurement data no rival
has collected. The scribe who knows which accounts do not balance. Knowledge assets are
non-transferable in the normal sense — stealing them requires the holder's cooperation or
death. This creates unique leverage structures unavailable to holders of physical assets.

**Type:** qualitative — present / absent, with estimated_value  
**Observable:** hidden to others, full to holder  
**Perceived vs true:** applies strongly — the holder knows what they know; others estimate
its value from signals

**Drift mechanics:**
- Increases through deliberate information collection (route measurement, account access)
- Decreases through disclosure, documentation, or death of the holder
- Separate from `mercatus_scientia` (commercial knowledge) — this is specific, exclusive,
  and often non-commercial in origin

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0002, DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0002, DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0003

---

### REPLACEMENT_COST
```
token:    replacement_cost
scope:    actor
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The true cost of replacing an actor's functional contribution to a venture
or household, including time to find, train, and verify a substitute. Distinct from wage
rate. A trusted clerk with six years of account knowledge has a replacement cost that
far exceeds their monthly wage. This parameter governs why owners hesitate to dismiss
competent actors even when cheaper alternatives are visible, and why the captain values
his crew's loyalty as a scarce asset.

**Type:** estimated quantity in denarii-equivalent  
**Observable:** partial — the owner estimates it; the actor may not know how high it is  
**Perceived vs true:** applies — owners systematically underestimate replacement cost
until a departure forces them to discover it

**Drift mechanics:**
- Increases with tenure, specialisation, and demonstrated reliability
- Decreases when skills become commoditised or when substitutes enter the market
- Relevant to `skilled_labor_scarcity` at the city level

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0001, DIALOGUE-LAW-0002, DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0001

---

### DEBT_COMPLETION_STATE
```
token:    debt_completion_state
scope:    actor
layer:    roman
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether a bonded service arrangement has been satisfied at the point of
a triggering event (death, dispute, early termination). The hinge of DIALOGUE-LAW-0001:
the merchant entered bondage to shield his household; he died mid-term; the contract
wording determines whether service was complete, partial, or void. This parameter has
no equivalent in modern law and cannot be collapsed into a simple debt_balance — the
question is not how much was owed but whether the form of service was completed.

**Type:** enum — in_progress / satisfied / disputed / void_at_death / transferred  
**Observable:** partial — parties know their own interpretation; the legal resolution
is uncertain until ruled upon  
**Perceived vs true:** applies — creditor and family hold different readings of the
same document

**Drift mechanics:**
- Set at contract execution; changes only through completion, dispute, or death event
- Affects household liability exposure directly

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0001 (The Fallen Beam)

---

### SUCCESSION_STATE
```
token:    succession_state
scope:    actor
layer:    roman
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The actor's current position in a family inheritance structure — whether
they are the designated heir, a secondary heir, a disinherited party, or a potential
heir under a will not yet executed. Affects alliance formation, marriage negotiation,
and creditor behaviour immediately when it changes. Not the same as wealth — a noble
younger son may have high `succession_state` expectation and low `liquiditas`.

**Type:** enum — primary_heir / secondary_heir / undetermined / disinherited / independent  
**Observable:** partial — formal wills are known; informal intentions and changes are not  
**Perceived vs true:** applies strongly — DIALOGUE-LAW-0003 turns entirely on this gap

**Drift mechanics:**
- Changes through will revision, death of primary heir, adoption, or disinheritance
- Each change triggers immediate `alliance_pipeline` repricing by other actors
- Lag: formal changes are immediate; social recognition takes weeks

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0003 (The Heir's Oath)

---

### HOUSEHOLD_AUTHORITY_INDEX
```
token:    household_authority_index
scope:    actor
layer:    roman
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The degree to which an external authority (paterfamilias, patron, guild)
can override the actor's legal decisions. Distinct from `IVS_ACCESSVS` (the actor's own
standing to act) — this is the external constraint on that standing. A 22-year-old freeborn
Roman male has full `IVS_ACCESSVS` in theory but may still be overridden by a living
paterfamilias in practice. The parameter captures the gap between legal adulthood and
practical autonomy.

**Type:** ordinal — none / low / medium / high / absolute  
**Observable:** partial — formal authority is documented; practical extent depends on
willingness to enforce, which is not always known

**Drift mechanics:**
- Decreases with age, demonstrated independence, and paterfamilias death
- Increases with adoption into a powerful household or formal guardianship appointment
- Background-specific: Noble Younger Son starts high; Former Legionary starts low

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0003 (The Heir's Oath)

---

### SOURCE_CONTROL_STATE
```
token:    source_control_state
scope:    actor
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether the actor has secured access to goods or raw materials before
they reach visible markets — standing timber, unmined ore, grain fields before harvest,
undyed wool before processing. The first of the seven principles in DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0004.
Source control generates margin before price discovery occurs. Without it, the actor
competes on visible goods at market prices. With it, the actor names terms.

**Type:** qualitative — absent / partial / secured, per commodity  
**Observable:** hidden to competitors; full to holder  
**Perceived vs true:** applies — the holder knows what they control; competitors estimate
from observable purchasing patterns

**Drift mechanics:**
- Acquired through forward contracts, land rights, and supplier relationships
- Lost through contract expiry, seizure, competitor entry, or supply exhaustion
- Connects to `bottleneck_control_state` — source control often creates bottleneck control

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0004 (The Merchant Engine)

---

### BOTTLENECK_CONTROL_STATE
```
token:    bottleneck_control_state
scope:    actor
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether the actor controls a scarce input on which multiple output markets
depend. Rope, pitch, dry timber before a disaster; skilled shipwrights during a wartime
commission; water during a drought. Distinct from `source_control_state` (which is about
raw material origin) — bottleneck control is about a necessary intermediate that cannot
be substituted easily. The actor who controls the bottleneck does not need to compete
on price.

**Type:** qualitative — absent / partial / controlling, per input category  
**Observable:** hidden until the bottleneck is tested; then immediately apparent  
**Perceived vs true:** applies — holders may not realise they hold a bottleneck until
a disruption event reveals it (as in DIALOGUE-LAW-0009)

**Drift mechanics:**
- Created by disaster, seasonal scarcity, or deliberate accumulation
- Destroyed by new supply entering the market, substitution, or state requisition

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0009, DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0004

---

### TRANSFORMATION_MARGIN
```
token:    transformation_margin
scope:    actor
layer:    universal
maturity: provisional
```
**Definition:** The price differential captured by the actor between a good's raw form
and its finished or processed form. The tree is not the mast. Ore is not the hinge.
Grain is not bread. The actor who controls transformation captures margin that neither
raw material producers nor end buyers can access. Distinct from trade margin (buy low,
sell high at the same level of processing).

**Type:** ratio or denarii-equivalent per unit  
**Observable:** partial — the actor knows their own margin; competitors estimate it  
**Maturity note:** provisional pending research into documented Roman processing
price differentials

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0004 (The Merchant Engine)

---

## Section 2 — City Parameters (new additions)

Parameters shared across actors, anchored to a city substrate.

---

### SKILLED_LABOR_SCARCITY
```
token:    skilled_labor_scarcity
scope:    city
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The availability of specialised craftsmen — shipwrights, architects,
engineers, master scribes, skilled physicians — relative to demand. Distinct from
`porter_availability` (unskilled labour). Skilled labour scarcity affects venture cost,
construction timelines, and the premium paid for actors with rare expertise. It is the
city-level expression of the actor-level `replacement_cost` problem.

**Type:** ordinal — abundant / adequate / tight / scarce / critical  
**Observable:** partial — merchants and builders sense tightness through wage pressure
and wait times; the precise supply is not publicly known

**Drift:**
- Increases with disaster events, military requisition, disease outbreaks
- Decreases when skilled workers migrate toward high-wage opportunities
- Seasonal component: construction season peaks demand

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0004, DIALOGUE-LAW-0005

---

### LICENSING_STATE
```
token:    licensing_state
scope:    actor
layer:    roman
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether a specific business activity has been formally permitted by the
relevant authority. Operating without licence creates liability exposure even if the
activity itself is lawful. The licence is not the permission to act — it is protection
against later challenge. An unlicensed recovery house that serves the same function as
a licensed one faces different legal exposure after the first death on the premises.

**Type:** enum — unlicensed / applied / licensed / suspended / revoked  
**Observable:** full to holder; full to authorities; partial to the public  

**Drift mechanics:**
- Acquired through formal application and fee payment
- Lost through violation, non-renewal, or political disfavour
- Affects `IVS_ACCESSVS` modifier for the specific activity

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0007 (The Lawful Thirst)

---

### RECURRING_DEMAND_PATTERN
```
token:    recurring_demand_pattern
scope:    city
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** A predictable, lawful market opportunity that emerges from regular human
behaviour — post-feast illness, gambling losses, festival grief, morning-after recovery,
seasonal harvest pressure. Felix's core commercial lens across the law and commerce
series. Distinct from `rumor_velocity` (which is about information speed) and from
scenario-specific events. Recurring demand patterns are structural, not triggered.

**Type:** qualitative catalogue per city — list of identified patterns with frequency
and magnitude estimates  
**Observable:** full to experienced commercial actors; invisible to those who only watch
visible goods

**Drift:**
- Stable patterns change slowly with population and urban density
- Event-amplified patterns spike temporarily then return to baseline

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0006, DIALOGUE-LAW-0007

---

### INFRASTRUCTURE_STANDARD_STATE
```
token:    infrastructure_standard_state
scope:    city
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The current regulatory requirement for construction quality — crane bracing
standards, warehouse fire separation, pier load limits. Upgrades after disaster events
through emergency edicts. Before an edict: the standard is whatever survives inspection.
After: the standard is written and enforceable. Affects `licensing_state` for all
construction and storage ventures, and creates retroactive liability exposure for existing
structures that do not comply.

**Type:** ordinal — absent / informal / codified / enforced  
**Observable:** full once promulgated; actors may not know what the new standard requires
until they apply for licence renewal

**Drift:**
- Jumps after disaster events ("law after fear, as usual" — Crispus)
- Erodes slowly during periods of stable governance as enforcement lapses

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0011 (The Harbor Tremor)

---

### REPORTING_OBLIGATION
```
token:    reporting_obligation
scope:    city
layer:    roman
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** A formal duty, created by edict, requiring actors to disclose specific
observations to authorities under penalty. Once enacted, silence about a known hazard
becomes a punishable act rather than a neutral choice. The maritime anomaly edict in
DIALOGUE-LAW-0013 is the canonical example. Must be paired with `false_report_penalty`
to prevent abuse. Without the penalty for silence, under-reporting is rational.
Without the penalty for false reports, over-reporting becomes weaponisable.

**Type:** binary per activity category — obligated / not_obligated  
**Observable:** full once promulgated

**Drift:**
- Created by disaster-response edicts
- Rarely revoked; more often amended
- Interacts with `duty_to_warn_state` — a general duty may exist before a specific
  edict formalises it

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0013 (The Current Edict)

---

### INSTITUTIONAL_MEMORY_STATE
```
token:    institutional_memory_state
scope:    city
layer:    universal
maturity: provisional
```
**Definition:** Whether lessons from a disaster have been encoded into durable records,
procedures, training, and enforcement rather than remaining in individual memory.
Chresimus's warning: "if the tablets vanish, next generation rediscovers drowning."
Individual actors carry `survival_memory_bias`; this parameter tracks whether the city
itself has institutionalised the lesson. Degrades over time without active maintenance.

**Type:** ordinal — absent / informal / documented / enforced / embedded  
**Observable:** partial — the presence of records is visible; whether they are used
and accurate is not

**Maturity note:** provisional — the measurement framework for this parameter requires
further design

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0013

---

### OUTPOST_STATE
```
token:    outpost_state
scope:    city
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether a commercial enterprise has established a trusted local presence
in a given port — a rented room, a resident clerk, a locked chest, an account board, a
local guide. The captain's minimum viable intelligence node. Enables early information
access, reduces `delayed_knowledge`, and creates `first_mover_window` advantages.
Each city in the network either has an outpost or does not. The outpost is not a
warehouse or a factor — it is an information and trust anchor.

**Type:** binary per city — present / absent  
**Observable:** full to the owner; partial to rivals (they can observe activity but
not the contents)

**Drift:**
- Created through deliberate investment and local relationship building
- Lost through abandonment, agent failure, or political disruption

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0002, DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0003

---

## Section 3 — Scenario Parameters (new additions)

Parameters that exist only within a scenario's active window.

---

### CLASSIFICATION_STATE
```
token:    classification_state
scope:    scenario
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The legal category assigned (or contested) for a person or asset by an
authorising body. The captured ship's human cargo in DIALOGUE-LAW-0004 are neither
slaves, free persons, nor prisoners until classified. Classification determines which
legal regime applies, which actors have standing to act, and what the asset or person
is worth. The scenario teaches that authority often begins by deciding classifications,
not by delivering justice.

**Type:** enum — unclassified / pending / classified (with assigned category) / contested  
**Observable:** partial — the assigning authority knows its own ruling; affected parties
learn through notification or enforcement

**Perceived vs true:** applies strongly — a person may be legally classified as one
thing while being treated as another

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0004, DIALOGUE-LAW-0005

---

### FOREIGN_STATUS_CLAIM
```
token:    foreign_status_claim
scope:    actor
layer:    roman
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** A pending assertion by a foreign-origin actor that their status or rights
under a foreign legal instrument should be recognised by Roman authority. Damaros's claim
in DIALOGUE-LAW-0005: he was lawfully requisitioned under enemy wartime statute; Rome
must decide whether to honour that law to exonerate him, or deny it and face the
reciprocity consequence for Roman craftsmen captured abroad. The claim is not the same as
having the claim recognised.

**Type:** enum — not_filed / pending / recognised / rejected / under_appeal  
**Observable:** full to the claimant; partial to authorities (they know what was filed,
not what is true)

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0005 (The Captive Shipwright)

---

### CAUSATION_PROOF_THRESHOLD
```
token:    causation_proof_threshold
scope:    scenario
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The evidentiary standard required to file a complaint that survives legal
challenge — not merely the standard to believe something happened, but to demonstrate it
in a way that creates an enforceable claim. Distinct from `IVS_ACCESSVS` (standing to
file) — a person may have standing and insufficient proof simultaneously. The threshold
varies by claim type: physical damage requires different evidence than fraud or negligence.

**Type:** ordinal — unachievable / very_high / high / standard / low  
**Observable:** partial — actors know what they have; whether it meets the threshold is
determined by the magistrate, not the claimant

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0001, DIALOGUE-LAW-0006, DIALOGUE-LAW-0010

---

### COLLUSION_EVIDENCE_STATE
```
token:    collusion_evidence_state
scope:    scenario
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether documentary or witness evidence exists linking two actors in
coordinated harm. The Capua vendor and Ostia healer scenario: their coordination may be
real, imagined, or opportunistic coincidence. The evidence state is not the same as
whether coordination occurred — it is what can be demonstrated. Hidden to all actors
initially; revealed through investigation.

**Type:** ordinal — none / suggestive / circumstantial / strong / conclusive  
**Observable:** hidden — investigators must assemble it; defendants know what they did
but not what has been observed

**Perceived vs true:** applies — the investigator's evidence assessment may differ
from the legal reality

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0006 (The Poison and the Cure)

---

### VENTURE_GOVERNANCE_STATE
```
token:    venture_governance_state
scope:    scenario
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether a formal instrument exists defining ownership shares, binding
authority, liability allocation, profit distribution, and succession rules for a
multi-party venture. DIALOGUE-LAW-0008 in its entirety: without this instrument, no
cart should move. With it, every question has an answer. The absence of governance
is itself a governance state — one in which the most aggressive actor wins by default.

**Type:** enum — absent / draft / executed / disputed / dissolved  
**Observable:** full — the instrument either exists or it does not  

**Drift mechanics:**
- Absent at venture formation; created through negotiation
- Disputed when partners disagree about interpretation
- Dissolved when the venture ends or a partner exits

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0007, DIALOGUE-LAW-0008

---

### BINDING_AUTHORITY
```
token:    binding_authority
scope:    actor
layer:    roman
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Which actor or actors have the right to commit the venture by signature —
to execute contracts, accept deliveries, engage suppliers, and incur liabilities on behalf
of the partnership. Until the `venture_governance_state` instrument is executed, binding
authority is legally ambiguous. Felix's shout to the supplier ("yes") and Varro's
counter-shout ("no") capture the problem exactly. The supplier's question — "whom to
trust?" — has no answer without this parameter being defined.

**Type:** list of actor_ids with scope of authority  
**Observable:** full once the governance instrument exists; contested before that

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0008 (The Charter Quarrel)

---

### ASSET_COMPLEMENTARITY
```
token:    asset_complementarity
scope:    relation
layer:    universal
maturity: provisional
```
**Definition:** Whether separately owned assets become significantly more valuable in
combination than individually. Six bad trades combine into a shipyard in DIALOGUE-LAW-0009.
Timber, rope, tackle, slips, pitch, and labour promises are each marginal in isolation;
together they are a production facility. This is a derived, relational parameter — it
cannot be measured per actor but only across a set of assets at a specific moment.

**Type:** qualitative — none / partial / significant / transformative  
**Observable:** hidden until combination is attempted or a forcing event reveals it  
**Maturity note:** provisional — the combinatorial logic requires design before this
can be stored in schema

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0009 (The Accidental Shipyard)

---

### EMERGENCY_CONTRACT_WINDOW
```
token:    emergency_contract_window
scope:    scenario
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The time period during which premium contracts are available following
an infrastructure disruption or disaster event, before price controls or state intervention
closes the opportunity. Distinct from `venture_window_days` (which is market-driven) —
the emergency window is disaster-triggered and collapses faster. Felix's urgent pressure
in DIALOGUE-LAW-0009 is correct: the window is real, it is short, and acting without
governance instruments is the specific risk.

**Type:** integer hours or days  
**Observable:** partial — experienced actors estimate it from past events and current
political signals; the precise close is unknown

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0009

---

### INFORMATION_ASYMMETRY_FLAG
```
token:    information_asymmetry_flag
scope:    scenario
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether one actor in a scenario possessed advance knowledge that others
lacked — and acted on it. The broker in DIALOGUE-LAW-0009 and DIALOGUE-LAW-0010 sold
surplus to all six at bargain prices before the crane disaster. Whether this was foresight,
luck, or sabotage is the unresolved question. The flag marks the structural asymmetry
regardless of cause. Hidden to the disadvantaged actors; Chresimus's primary investigative
target.

**Type:** boolean — present / absent  
**Observable:** hidden — inferred from pattern analysis and document investigation

**Perceived vs true:** applies — the disadvantaged actor believes they made a good deal;
the flag marks whether someone else knew more

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0009, DIALOGUE-LAW-0010

---

### DUTY_TO_WARN_STATE
```
token:    duty_to_warn_state
scope:    actor
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether an actor has accumulated sufficient knowledge of a hazard to
create a legal or moral obligation to disclose it to those at risk. The central parameter
of DIALOGUE-LAW-0012. The threshold at which knowledge becomes duty is not fixed — it
depends on the specificity of the knowledge, the foreseeability of harm, and the actor's
capacity to act. Before the threshold: silence is a choice. After: silence is exposure.

**Type:** enum — unaware / aware_no_duty / duty_emerging / duty_established  
**Observable:** partial — actors know what they know; the legal threshold is determined
retroactively, often after harm occurs

**Perceived vs true:** applies — the actor may believe they are below the threshold
when a court would say they were not

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0012 (The Secret Current)

---

### SHARED_SECRET_LEVERAGE
```
token:    shared_secret_leverage
scope:    relation
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The mutual constraint created when multiple actors hold the same
dangerous knowledge. Each actor's exposure depends on all others' silence. This is not
a simple secrecy parameter — it is a relational one. Chresimus's solution in
DIALOGUE-LAW-0012 is architecturally correct: if one discloses alone, five become
targets; bind all six equally. The leverage runs in all directions simultaneously.

**Type:** qualitative — absent / present (with actor list)  
**Observable:** full to the group; hidden from outside  

**Drift mechanics:**
- Created when multiple actors independently acquire the same hazardous knowledge
- Dissolved by collective disclosure, death of any member, or external discovery

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0012

---

### HAZARD_KNOWLEDGE_TIMESTAMP
```
token:    hazard_knowledge_timestamp
scope:    actor
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The recorded moment at which an actor demonstrably knew of a hazard.
Chresimus's core tool across the law arc — write the names, write the date. The timestamp
is what transforms knowledge into legal exposure and what protects actors who disclosed
promptly from those who did not. Without it, "I didn't know" is a viable defence.
With it, the question shifts to "what did you do with what you knew?"

**Type:** ISO 8601 UTC timestamp (or null if not yet established)  
**Observable:** full once documented; disputed before documentation

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0012, DIALOGUE-LAW-0013

---

### EXONERATION_STATE
```
token:    exoneration_state
scope:    actor
layer:    roman
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The formal reversal of a prior legal finding, including debt nullification,
licence restoration, and official status repair. Distinct from `FAMA` recovery —
exoneration restores legal standing immediately; reputation heals on its own timeline,
which is slower. The captain in DIALOGUE-LAW-0013 is exonerated; his debts nullified,
his licence restored. Tavern whispers continue. This gap between legal and social
restoration is a first-class parameter.

**Type:** enum — not_applicable / under_review / exonerated / partially_exonerated  
**Observable:** full legally; the social dimension (FAMA) recovers separately and partially

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0013 (The Current Edict)

---

### STATE_PATRONAGE_CHANNEL
```
token:    state_patronage_channel
scope:    scenario
layer:    roman
maturity: provisional
```
**Definition:** An informal promise of preferential access or reward from a state official,
not written into any formal instrument. The magistrate's "priorities may align" in
DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0001. The channel is real — it generates real advantage — but it
is deniable, and its reliability is unknown until tested. Distinct from formal contract
(`venture_governance_state`) and from social capital (`AVCTORITA`). This is specifically
state-to-private informal preference.

**Type:** enum — absent / implied / active / honoured / betrayed  
**Observable:** hidden — the promise is oral and deniable; the outcome reveals itself
only when the moment arrives

**Maturity note:** provisional — the frequency and reliability of such channels in
Roman commerce requires further research calibration

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0001 (The First Hull)

---

### COMMAND_AUTHORITY_SPLIT
```
token:    command_authority_split
scope:    scenario
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The formal separation of operational command authority (captain at sea)
from ownership rights (the six on shore). Without this separation, maritime ventures
collapse into disputes over every decision. With it, each domain has a sovereign. The
captain's demand — "authority at sea unquestioned by men ashore" — is not arrogance;
it is the structural requirement for any maritime venture to function. Connects to
`binding_authority` but is specifically about the operational-ownership boundary.

**Type:** binary — defined / undefined, with authority_map if defined  
**Observable:** full once the governance instrument exists

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0001

---

### ROUTE_MEASUREMENT_STATE
```
token:    route_measurement_state
scope:    actor
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether systematic empirical data on a route's time, cost, reliability,
and loss risk has been collected across multiple runs and is available to the actor.
Before measurement: the actor guesses. After: the actor prices. The captain's experiment
in DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0003 — racing the land courier with a duplicate packet — is the
canonical method. Route measurement is not map knowledge (`ITINERIS_SCIENTIA`); it is
operational performance data that converts uncertainty into margin.

**Type:** ordinal — unmeasured / partially_measured / measured / continuously_updated  
**Observable:** full to the actor who collected it; hidden to competitors

**Drift mechanics:**
- Improves with each completed and documented run
- Degrades when routes change (infrastructure disruption, political change, seasonal shift)

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0003 (The Captain's Measure)

---

### NODE_AGENT_STATE
```
token:    node_agent_state
scope:    relation
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether a trusted agent is established and active at a specific port node.
Distinct from `outpost_state` (which is about premises) — this is specifically about the
person. The captain's principle: hold both ends. One agent in Ostia, one at the
destination. Without agents at both ends, every voyage requires a merchant to travel.
With them, information and instructions move without merchants.

**Type:** enum per location — absent / provisionally_placed / active / unreliable / lost  
**Observable:** full to the network owner; partial to rivals  

**Drift mechanics:**
- Established through deliberate recruitment and relationship building
- Degrades through neglect, rival recruitment, death, or disloyalty

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0002, DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0003

---

### INFORMATION_MONOPOLY_WINDOW
```
token:    information_monopoly_window
scope:    scenario
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The period during which one actor receives information faster than
competitors on a given route, creating durable commercial advantage. Collapses the
moment rivals establish equivalent networks. Distinct from `first_mover_window` (a
single-event advantage) — the information monopoly window is structural and ongoing,
maintained through network investment. The captain's long-term commercial objective
in the commerce arc.

**Type:** estimated days of lead time  
**Observable:** hidden — the actor knows they have it; they do not know when it will end

**Drift mechanics:**
- Created through route measurement, agent placement, and outpost establishment
- Destroyed by rival network construction or information leak

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0003

---

### GATEKEEPER_POTENTIAL
```
token:    gatekeeper_potential
scope:    actor
layer:    universal
maturity: provisional
```
**Definition:** The degree to which an currently obscure local actor is positioned to
control access to something of future commercial or informational value — a dock clerk,
a harbour master's assistant, a scribe at a merchant guild. Chresimus's lens:
"today's nobody becomes tomorrow's gatekeeper." Identifying these actors before rivals
creates durable relationship advantage at low cost. The value is invisible in the present;
it becomes obvious only after the actor's position matures.

**Type:** qualitative assessment — low / medium / high  
**Observable:** hidden to most; observable to those who read social position carefully  
**Maturity note:** provisional — the criteria for identification require further design

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0002

---

## Section 4 — Relation and Derived Parameters (new additions)

---

### REPUTATION_DAMAGE_STATE
```
token:    reputation_damage_state
scope:    actor
layer:    roman
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** FAMA degradation that occurs before any legal judgment, triggered by
public accusation alone. Distinct from FAMA (which tracks overall public reputation)
— this captures the acute, event-triggered damage that precedes any formal resolution.
The Capua vendor is beaten, not convicted. His trade suffers before the magistrate
rules. Once damage occurs, it may persist even after exoneration. Volatility is the
key characteristic.

**Type:** ordinal — none / minor / significant / severe / destroyed  
**Observable:** partial — the actor hears what is said about them, but not all of it  
**Perceived vs true:** applies — the actor may underestimate how damaged their FAMA is

**Drift mechanics:**
- Spikes on public accusation, scandal, or visible failure
- Recovers slowly, incompletely, and unevenly across different social groups
- Recovery speed depends on AVCTORITA level and subsequent visible conduct

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0006, DIALOGUE-LAW-0013

---

### COUNTERFACTUAL_CLAIM_STATE
```
token:    counterfactual_claim_state
scope:    scenario
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** A legal or commercial claim based on what would have happened under
different conditions — "if the old dock had remained, it would have collapsed in the
earthquake." Not directly provable. Not directly disprovable. Persuasive to audiences
who experienced the disaster; legally useless to Crispus without physical evidence.
A distinct claim type because its evidentiary standard is structurally different from
claims about actual events.

**Type:** enum — not_filed / filed / supported / unsupported / withdrawn  
**Observable:** full — the claim either exists or it does not; whether it is valid is
the contested question

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0011 (The Harbor Tremor)

---

### SURVIVAL_MEMORY_BIAS
```
token:    survival_memory_bias
scope:    actor
layer:    universal
maturity: provisional
```
**Definition:** The degree to which an actor's account of past events has been edited —
unconsciously or deliberately — to emphasise their own foresight and correct prediction.
Chresimus's observation: "survival edits archives quickly." Distinct from deliberate
falsification — this is the structural tendency of survivors to remember their choices
as wiser than they were. Affects the reliability of witness testimony and the credibility
of historical accounts.

**Type:** qualitative — low / medium / high  
**Observable:** hidden to the actor; visible to careful observers like Chresimus  
**Maturity note:** provisional — requires a measurement methodology before schema
implementation

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0011

---

### DEAD_WITNESS_STATE
```
token:    dead_witness_state
scope:    scenario
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether the primary actor whose testimony would resolve a case is deceased.
Creates a permanent ceiling on `causation_proof_threshold` — the dead cannot be
cross-examined. The broker's death in DIALOGUE-LAW-0010 does not merely remove one
witness; it eliminates the only person who knew the complete picture. The state triggers
permanent epistemic limitation: the question of intent can never be answered definitively.

**Type:** boolean — alive / dead (with deceased_at timestamp)  
**Observable:** full — death is a public fact

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0010 (The Broker's Last Wind)

---

### NARRATIVE_CAPTURE_RISK
```
token:    narrative_capture_risk
scope:    city
layer:    universal
maturity: provisional
```
**Definition:** The probability that an unresolved event will be absorbed into popular
myth before legal investigation completes. Once captured, evidence becomes harder to
evaluate neutrally — witnesses remember what the story requires, not what they observed.
The broker arc in DIALOGUE-LAW-0010 and 0011 illustrates: "the broker saved the harbor
from beyond death" displaces the legal question of whether he caused the original disaster.

**Type:** ordinal — low / medium / high / captured  
**Observable:** partial — the early signs are visible to Chresimus and Lentulus;
the city at large experiences the narrative as truth

**Maturity note:** provisional — interaction with `rumor_velocity` and
`survival_memory_bias` requires calibration

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0010, DIALOGUE-LAW-0011

---

### ESTATE_LIABILITY_STATE
```
token:    estate_liability_state
scope:    scenario
layer:    roman
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether a deceased actor's estate bears civil liability for harms they
caused. Conditional on proof of intentional harm — Crispus's core constraint throughout
the broker arc. Accidental harm, negligence, and coincidence are treated differently.
Without proof of intent, the estate is shielded. With it, creditors and claimants may
pursue assets. The parameter captures Roman law's specific treatment of posthumous civil
liability, which differs significantly from modern frameworks.

**Type:** enum — shielded / under_review / liable / settled  
**Observable:** partial — the legal position is uncertain until ruled upon; the estate's
actual assets are known only through inventory

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0010

---

### RECORD_DESTRUCTION_FLAG
```
token:    record_destruction_flag
scope:    scenario
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether relevant documents have been deliberately removed or destroyed
before investigation. Inferred from physical evidence (ash tray contents, floor scratches,
cleared racks, suspiciously neat premises) rather than direct observation. Once flagged,
it changes the evidentiary burden: the absence of records becomes itself evidence of
concealment. Without the flag, missing documents are merely missing. With it, they are
presumptively destroyed.

**Type:** boolean — not_flagged / flagged (with inference_basis)  
**Observable:** inferred from physical investigation; never directly confirmed

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0010

---

### MANIFEST_INTEGRITY
```
token:    manifest_integrity
scope:    scenario
layer:    roman
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether cargo documentation is authentic, complete, and consistent
with actual cargo. Chresimus's primary lens in DIALOGUE-LAW-0004 (the prize ship):
"if cargo was declared as timber or salt, many men hang by ink." Distinct from general
`LITTERAE` (literacy and account-keeping capacity) — this is specifically the
authenticity of a specific document at a specific moment. Falsified manifests affect
classification outcomes, prize rights, and liability.

**Type:** enum — authentic / unverified / inconsistent / falsified / destroyed  
**Observable:** partial — the document exists and can be read; whether it reflects
reality requires investigation

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0004

---

### PARTNERSHIP_ALIGNMENT_STATE
```
token:    partnership_alignment_state
scope:    relation
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The degree of genuine agreement among co-venturers on ownership shares,
operational authority, accounts, and decision rights — before any formal instrument
is executed. Chresimus's warning: "if this succeeds, friendship shortens." The gap
between declared cooperation and actual willingness to cede control. Distinct from
`venture_governance_state` (which is about the formal instrument) — alignment is the
underlying social reality that the instrument must capture or fail.

**Type:** ordinal — aligned / fragile / disputed / broken  
**Observable:** hidden — each actor perceives their own willingness as reasonable
and others' as deficient  
**Perceived vs true:** applies strongly — "trust was the missing capital" (Varro)

**Source scenarios:** DIALOGUE-LAW-0007, DIALOGUE-LAW-0008

---

### CARETAKER_INCENTIVE_STRUCTURE
```
token:    caretaker_incentive_structure
scope:    actor
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** The degree to which a remote agent's compensation is tied to outcomes
rather than fixed wage. The captain's operating principle and the six's caretaker
design in DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0002. "Free men often steal more carefully because they
plan to stay" — Chresimus. The parameter captures whether the incentive structure
creates alignment between agent behaviour and owner interest. Pure fixed wage creates
one risk profile; pure outcome-linked creates another; the mixture is the design variable.

**Type:** ordinal — fixed_wage / partial_outcome / primarily_outcome / equity_stake  
**Observable:** full to the owner who designed it; the agent may not know they are
being compared against alternatives

**Drift mechanics:**
- Set at agent engagement; renegotiated at major milestones
- Affects `remote_management_reliability` directly

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0002

---

### REMOTE_MANAGEMENT_RELIABILITY
```
token:    remote_management_reliability
scope:    actor
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether caretakers and agents perform correctly in the owner's absence.
The test delivered mid-journey in DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0002: warehouse rents collected,
no theft, one rope shortage, two offers to buy slip rights refused, all stable. The
parameter is never fully known in advance — it is revealed through periodic reports.
The incentive structure (`caretaker_incentive_structure`) is the design variable;
this parameter tracks the outcome.

**Type:** ordinal — unknown / unreliable / adequate / reliable / exceptional  
**Observable:** revealed through reports; unknown during absence

**Drift mechanics:**
- Improves with successful test cycles
- Degrades under temptation, opportunity, or changed circumstances

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0002

---

### DISPATCH_RECEIPT_INTEGRITY
```
token:    dispatch_receipt_integrity
scope:    relation
layer:    universal
maturity: canonical
```
**Definition:** Whether agents sign witnessed receipts confirming arrival time and
condition of information packets at each node. Crispus's binding requirement in
DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0003. Without this data, the route measurement experiment produces
impressions rather than evidence. With it, the data becomes the commercial advantage.
The receipt is not the contract — it is the measurement instrument that makes the
contract valuable.

**Type:** enum — absent / informal / witnessed / witnessed_and_timestamped  
**Observable:** full — the receipt either exists or it does not

**Source scenario:** DIALOGUE-COMMERCE-0003

---

## Section 5 — Extensions to Existing Parameters

These are not new tokens. They are clarifications or additions to parameters already
in the registry, identified through corpus review.

---

### AVCTORITA — perceived vs true split clarification

The existing registry notes that the actor infers their own AVCTORITA from social signals.
The corpus makes explicit that this split is load-bearing in multiple scenarios:

- The Failed Magistrate's AVCTORITA is falling faster than he knows
  (DIALOGUE-LAW-0001, CAST-OSTIA-0001)
- The Freedman Trader's practical reputation has grown faster than his social recognition
  (CAST-OSTIA-0001)
- The captain's AVCTORITA is destroyed by accusation before any legal finding, then
  partially restored by exoneration, but not fully restored by it
  (DIALOGUE-LAW-0013)

**Schema implication already noted in existing registry:** `value_true` and
`value_perceived` must be separate records. This remains non-negotiable.

**Addition:** A third record is needed — `value_social` — tracking the current market
consensus about an actor's AVCTORITA, which may differ from both the true value and
the actor's self-assessment. This is what FAMA produces. Three records, not two.

---

### IVS_ACCESSVS — post-exoneration modifier

The existing registry covers formal standing. The corpus adds:

After exoneration, `IVS_ACCESSVS` is restored legally but may remain practically
impaired while `FAMA` recovers. The schema should support a `practical_modifier` field
on `IVS_ACCESSVS` that can differ from the formal standing field during recovery periods.

---

### OFFICIA_BVRDEN — hidden obligation component

The existing registry notes that the actor may underestimate informal obligations.
The corpus confirms: in DIALOGUE-LAW-0001, the bonded service arrangement itself is an
`OFFICIA_BVRDEN` item. The parameter should explicitly support both formal obligations
(visible) and informal ones (partially hidden), with the split tracked separately.

---

## Section 6 — Tokens Considered and Rejected

These were identified during corpus review and rejected for specific reasons.

| Rejected token | Reason |
|---|---|
| `conspiracy_flag` | Too broad. Covers everything from coordinated pricing to sabotage. Use `collusion_evidence_state` for the evidence status and `information_asymmetry_flag` for the structural condition. |
| `luck_parameter` | Not a parameter. Luck is the residual between preparation and outcome. It is not stored — it is the gap between expected and actual outcome. |
| `moral_reputation` | Collapsed into FAMA. The distinction between commercial and moral reputation is valid in Roman life but does not require a separate parameter — it is captured by the audience and context fields on FAMA events. |
| `political_timing_advantage` | Too broad as a standalone parameter. Covered by `information_monopoly_window` (structural) and `state_patronage_channel` (relational). The underlying mechanism is delayed knowledge reaching the actor before the market. |
| `ghost_current_state` | Too scenario-specific. The underlying phenomenon is `infrastructure_bottleneck_state` with a geological trigger. The ghost current terminology belongs in UI text, not schema. |
| `broker_foreknowledge` | Not a general parameter. The broker's possible foreknowledge is the unresolved question of the arc, not a storable value. Represented by `information_asymmetry_flag` and `dead_witness_state`. |

---

## Summary — New Tokens by Scope

**Actor (13):** manumission_state, knowledge_asset, replacement_cost, debt_completion_state,
succession_state, household_authority_index, source_control_state, bottleneck_control_state,
transformation_margin, foreign_status_claim, binding_authority, exoneration_state,
route_measurement_state

**City (7):** skilled_labor_scarcity, licensing_state, recurring_demand_pattern,
infrastructure_standard_state, reporting_obligation, institutional_memory_state,
outpost_state

**Scenario (11):** classification_state, causation_proof_threshold, collusion_evidence_state,
venture_governance_state, asset_complementarity, emergency_contract_window,
information_asymmetry_flag, duty_to_warn_state, information_monopoly_window,
command_authority_split, state_patronage_channel

**Relation/Derived (13):** reputation_damage_state, counterfactual_claim_state,
survival_memory_bias, dead_witness_state, narrative_capture_risk, estate_liability_state,
record_destruction_flag, manifest_integrity, partnership_alignment_state,
caretaker_incentive_structure, remote_management_reliability, dispatch_receipt_integrity,
shared_secret_leverage, hazard_knowledge_timestamp, gatekeeper_potential, node_agent_state

**Total new tokens: 44**
**Canonical: 32 | Provisional: 8 | Extensions to existing: 3**

---

*Parameter Registry Additions — 2026-04-30*
*Prepared for project owner review. No token is admitted until reviewed.*
*Uncertainty is a first-class record, not a comment.*
*TheRON — single contributor. AI assistants implement, document, flag — do not direct.*