See It Work · S2 Vol 3 · Governed Dev Loop · §4 · Catching the Slow Drift Before It Moves a Line

Catch the slow drift before a boundary quietly moves

The drift that hurts you is the slow kind: small changes, period after period, until one day a boundary has quietly moved and you find out too late. Here the system catches the drift before it crosses the line — a correction, not a crisis — and the safeguard is handed down to whoever comes after you.

Catch the slow drift before a boundary quietly moves — full detailed chart

The full detailed chart. Condensed for print legibility in the book; shown here at full size.

By the time slow drift is obvious, the damage is done. Catching it early is the difference between a quick fix and a quiet failure you discover months later.
Your machine · the drift catcherready

The demo catches the drift before the line moves:

The Drift, Caught Early
the driftspotted early
the linedid NOT move
flagged fora quick review
resulta correction, not a crisis — and inherited

You write the rules. The AI can't quietly change them. Every handoff is on the record. And drift gets caught early.

For the technical reader — the command, and how to verify it yourself
# one line · you do not need to run this
python examples/family_governance_demo.py
python examples/family_governance_demo.py
# -> the drift is caught and noted before any boundary moves

Full step-by-step is in Appendix RX: Hands-On Demonstrations in the book.

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