Narrow the Meaningful Action Surface

Capture

The app does not need to solve every problem.

Why

AI products often treat action generation as success.

In this architecture, non-action may be the highest-value result.

Why-Not

The rejected path would make narrow the Meaningful Action Surface too easy to treat as an implementation detail instead of a public boundary. The ADR preserves the tradeoff explicitly so later product work cannot silently widen authority.

Commit

Decision: The app does not need to solve every problem.

• observe;
• document;
• clarify;
• stabilize;
• communicate;
• wait;
• escalate;
• review verified material;
• conduct one approved experiment;
• explicitly not intervene.

The app becomes protective rather than performatively helpful.

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Confidence: Medium-high for public architecture; implementation details remain private and subject to launch evidence.

Timestamp

2026-07-17