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Global Guardrail

cognitive-interface-architecture / global-guardrail

Definition

A constraint pinned to a structurally privileged position the model re-reads every turn: typically the top of every response in a visible block. Global Guardrails survive the attention decay that erases ordinary mid-conversation instructions.

What this prevents

Architectural answer to "instruction given turn three lost by turn ten." Without a Global Guardrail, any constraint delivered conversationally is subject to semantic drift and will be forgotten or overridden as the conversation grows.

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