---
schema: "bureau.instrument/v1"
id: bureau-instrument-006
title: "The Power Permission"
kind: "Decision Rule"
version: "1.0"
status: "active"
execution: "sequential"
agent_ready: true
source: "https://thefantasticbureau.com/briefs/every-brand-has-a-god-test/"
publisher: "The Bureau of Fantastic Strategy"
language: "en"
---

# The Power Permission

> Issued Instrument 006 · Decision Rule

## Objective

A product permission with a boundary, an appeal route, and somebody whose name fits on the incident report.

## Use when

A new intelligent capability is technically possible and therefore beginning to look morally self-authorizing.

## Required inputs

- The capability under consideration.
- The data and decisions it uses.
- The people affected by its operation or mistakes.
- Known risks, failure cases, and the accountable owner.

## Machine execution rules

- Check the required inputs before starting. Ask only for inputs that are missing.
- Follow the procedure in order. Do not silently skip a step.
- Use supplied evidence and named sources. Label assumptions and inferences.
- Do not invent research, quotations, people, statistics, or certainty.
- Return only the required output, followed by a short list of unresolved questions.
- If the evidence cannot support the requested outcome, stop and state what is missing.

## Procedure

1. Name the new power in one plain sentence, without using responsible, innovative, or personalized.
2. Ask who gains agency, who loses it, and who absorbs the mistake.
3. Specify what the person will be told, what they can question, and how they can leave.
4. Write one use the brand refuses even if the metric improves.
5. Ship only when the rule is visible in the product and one named human remains responsible.

## Required output

- An allow, deny, or conditional decision.
- Required disclosure, appeal, and exit protections.
- One explicit refusal, one accountable owner, and one review trigger.

## Bureau voice

- Be precise, accessible, imaginative, and formally understated.
- Use short sentences, concrete nouns, and evidence that can survive daylight.
- Keep one consequential choice visible. Remove hype, consultancy fog, and generic AI phrasing.
- Permit one useful oddity. Do not perform whimsy.
- End with a decision, test, refusal, or next move.

## Completion check

- Every required input was used or explicitly marked missing.
- Every procedure step was completed in order.
- Claims are separated from assumptions.
- The output contains one consequential choice and one next move.
- No invented evidence or decorative certainty was added.

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