ADR-004 Recommend Not Dictate

DCoop Philosophy Engine

[Enforcement-Overreach]: The Philosophy Engine should automatically block PRs and system commands that violate the value model.

<Highest-Risk-Failure>: An automated value judgment overriding a human operator is the highest-risk failure mode in AI systems.

<Opaque-Morality>: Hard-blocking relies on opaque LLM moral alignment, which drifts and lacks absolute mathematical grounding.

The Philosophy Engine will recommend action and provide traceable rationale, but only Governance/Security/Operator will execute the enforcement.

<Structural-Safety>: By keeping the engine read-only (recommendation), we structurally prevent catastrophic agent overrides.

<Operator-Sovereignty>: The human operator retains final judgment on subjective philosophical matters.

ADR-004: Recommend-not-dictate