schema_version: "1.0"

id: "FM-ISC-001"

title: "FM-ISC-001 — Identity-Binding Signal Capture"

slug: "fm-isc-001-identity-binding-signal-capture"

type: "failure_mode"

status: "draft"

version: "0.1.0"

last_updated: "2026-06-19"

summary: "Identity-Binding Signal Capture occurs when a signal, interpretation, feedback, label, role, diagnosis, preference, reaction, state, mistake, success, affiliation, or relational cue becomes fused to identity, causing the system to treat a temporary or partial signal as a durable definition of the node."

canonical_url: "/archive/failure-modes/registry/interactions-signals-couplings/fm-isc-001-identity-binding-signal-capture"

citation_id: "FM-ISC-001-v0-1-0"

canon:

tier: "registry"

state: "draft"

source: "UTS — Failure Modes Registry"

source_id: "FM-ISC-001"

classification:

family: "failure-modes"

module: "interactions-signals-couplings"

module_group: "isc"

density: "advanced-reference"

audience:

• "UTS readers"
• "interaction researchers"
• "signal systems researchers"
• "coherence researchers"
• "AI alignment researchers"
• "interface researchers"
• "restoration researchers"
• "justice researchers"
• "machine readers"

tags:

• "failure-modes"
• "isc"
• "interactions"
• "signals"
• "couplings"
• "identity-binding-signal-capture"
• "fm-isc-001-identity-binding-signal-capture"
• "identity"
• "signal-capture"
• "misclassification"
• "boundary"
• "coherence"

aliases:

• "Identity-Binding Signal Capture"
• "Identity Signal Capture"
• "Signal-to-Identity Fusion"
• "Identity Overbinding"
• "State-to-Identity Capture"
• "Role-to-Identity Capture"
• "Feedback Identity Binding"
• "Label Capture"
• "Signal Essentialization"
• "Temporary Signal Reification"

related:

laws:

• "Signal Must Not Become Identity Without Validation"
• "State Is Not Identity"
• "Role Is Not Essence"
• "Feedback Must Preserve Boundary"
• "Interpretation Must Remain Revisable"
• "Identity Must Not Be Captured by Local Signal"
• "Choice Under Clarity"
• "Pseudo-Coherence"
• "Hidden Debt Accumulation"
• "Narrative Dominance"
• "U4 Truth Substitution"
• "Boundary Integrity"

invariants:

• "Signals Must Remain Separable from Identity"
• "Identity Binding Requires Time Validation"
• "Partial Signals Must Not Define Whole Nodes"
• "Feedback Must Preserve Agency"
• "Labels Must Remain Auditable"
• "Identity Claims Must Remain Consent-Aware"
• "Relational Cues Must Not Collapse Personhood"

operators:

• "BΣ — Boundary Integrity"
• "Ψ — Observation / Interface"
• "O — Coherence"
• "Au — Auditability"
• "Λ — Compatibility"
• "K — Constraint / Load"
• "H — Hidden Debt"
• "Γ — Selection"
• "R — Restoration Capacity"
• "D — Damping"
• "Φ — Flow / Resource Movement"
• "G — Gain"
• "Τ — Trajectory / Time"

gates:

• "Identity Boundary Gate"
• "Signal Classification Gate"
• "Consent / Standing Gate"
• "Time Validation Gate"
• "Revision Gate"
• "Auditability Gate"
• "Context Gate"
• "Relational Boundary Gate"
• "Local Coherence Gate"

diagnostics:

• "Signal / Identity Separation"
• "Identity Binding Strength"
• "Context Completeness"
• "Time Validation"
• "Revision Availability"
• "Agency Preservation"
• "Label Auditability"
• "Boundary Integrity"
• "Hidden Debt"
• "Local Coherence"

failure_modes:

• "FM-ISC-002 — Constraint Signal Misclassification"
• "FM-ISC-003 — Urgency Substitution"
• "FM-ISC-014 — Reflection Without Integration"
• "FM-CORE-006 — U4 Truth Substitution"
• "FM-CORE-001 — Pseudo-Coherence"
• "FM-CORE-002 — Hidden Debt Accumulation"
• "FM-CIF-004 — Awareness Radius Suppression"
• "FM-AIX-011 — Epistemic Distortion"
• "FM-JC-007 — Manufactured Consent"
• "FM-JC-012 — Silence Misread as Stability"
• "FM-R-003 — Insight Without Load Reduction"
• "FM-R-009 — Therapeutic Capture"

restoration_arcs:

• "Signal / Identity Separation"
• "Label Audit Restoration"
• "Identity Boundary Repair"
• "Context Re-expansion"
• "Time Validation Reopening"
• "Agency Restoration"
• "Revision Path Restoration"
• "Consent / Standing Recheck"
• "Hidden Identity Debt Accounting"
• "Local Coherence Restoration"

modules:

• "Interactions / Signals / Couplings"
• "Identity"
• "Interfaces"
• "AI Governance"
• "Justice"
• "Restoration"
• "Cybernetics"
• "Diagnostics"
• "Coherence"

navigation:

order: 1501

parent: "failure-modes"

visible: true

provenance:

created_from: "failure-mode-registry-production"

source_thread: "UTS Failure Modes Registry production"

source_file: "content/archive/failure-modes/registry/interactions-signals-couplings/fm-isc-001-identity-binding-signal-capture.md"

notes: "Expanded from ISC family list entry and aligned to normalized metadata structure. ISC family covers failures in signal interpretation, coupling, consent, boundaries, operator sequencing, and relation geometry. This entry focuses on partial, local, temporary, role-based, reactive, or contextual signals being bound to identity as if they define the whole node."

entry:

failure_mode_id: "FM-ISC-001"

failure_family: "Interactions / Signals / Couplings"

production_treatment: "Standalone Entry / Canon-aligned"

parent_modes:

• "FM-CORE-006 — U4 Truth Substitution"
• "FM-CIF-004 — Awareness Radius Suppression"
• "FM-AIX-011 — Epistemic Distortion"
• "FM-CORE-001 — Pseudo-Coherence"
• "FM-CORE-002 — Hidden Debt Accumulation"

first_gate_failure: "Identity Boundary Gate"

primary_hidden_debt: "Hidden debt accumulates when a partial, temporary, contextual, reactive, or externally interpreted signal becomes attached to identity, constraining future interpretation, agency, relation, repair, and revision."

primary_inversion: "Signal becomes essence; the system treats a momentary expression, role, feedback event, mistake, reaction, affiliation, or observed state as if it defines the node."

primary_boundary_pattern: "The boundary between signal and identity collapses; local information is allowed to bind the whole node."

primary_signature: "Signal appears; interpretation attaches it to identity; future signals are filtered through the binding; agency and revision narrow; affected node carries misclassification debt; coherence declines."

FM-ISC-001 — Identity-Binding Signal Capture

Status: Draft

Archive Type: Failure Mode

System: Universal Theory Stack

Parent: Failure Modes

Canon Tier: Registry

Registry: Failure Modes Registry

Entry ID: FM-ISC-001

Family: Interactions / Signals / Couplings

Production Treatment: Standalone Entry / Canon-aligned

Parent Modes: FM-CORE-006 — U4 Truth Substitution; FM-CIF-004 — Awareness Radius Suppression; FM-AIX-011 — Epistemic Distortion; FM-CORE-001 — Pseudo-Coherence; FM-CORE-002 — Hidden Debt Accumulation

0. Interaction Scope Note

This entry is conceptual and systems-oriented.

It does not treat identity, self-description, role, stable pattern, diagnosis, reputation, classification, preference, commitment, affiliation, or durable trait recognition as inherently failed.

Some signals do legitimately reveal stable structure.

Some patterns are durable.

Some identities are chosen, cultivated, named, protected, and valid.

A signal can support identity coherence when it is:

• consent-aware
• context-aware
• time-validated
• revisable
• bounded
• non-totalizing
• agency-preserving
• open to disconfirmation
• connected to repeated pattern rather than isolated event
• compatible with the node’s own standing
• able to distinguish state, role, behavior, preference, and identity
• not used to constrain future repair or interpretation unfairly

The failure begins when a signal captures identity.

The issue is not recognizing pattern.

The issue is binding a partial signal to the whole node.

Identity-Binding Signal Capture occurs when interpretation becomes identity assignment.

1. Definition

Identity-Binding Signal Capture occurs when a signal, interpretation, feedback, label, role, diagnosis, preference, reaction, state, mistake, success, affiliation, or relational cue becomes fused to identity, causing the system to treat a temporary or partial signal as a durable definition of the node.

The captured signal may be:

• a mistake
• a success
• a reaction
• a refusal
• a preference
• a temporary state
• a role
• a title
• a diagnosis
• a label
• an emotional expression
• a relational cue
• a silence
• a disclosure
• a belief fragment
• a conflict moment
• a style marker
• a risk signal
• a performance signal
• a compliance signal
• a vulnerability signal
• an affiliation
• a demographic proxy
• an AI interaction pattern
• a historical record
• a past failure
• a prior capability signal

The core failure is:

local signal
→ identity binding
→ future interpretation constrained
→ agency / revision ↓
→ H↑

Identity-Binding Signal Capture is not classification.

It is classification that binds too deeply, too quickly, or too permanently.

2. Core Pattern

The core pattern is:

1. A signal appears.
2. The signal is interpreted.
3. The interpretation is attached to the node’s identity.
4. The identity attachment becomes a filter for future signals.
5. Contradictory evidence is minimized, ignored, or reinterpreted through the label.
6. The node’s agency to revise, clarify, mature, recover, or recontextualize narrows.
7. Relational, institutional, or interface responses adapt to the captured identity.
8. The node begins carrying the hidden debt of misclassification.
9. Restoration requires separating signal, state, behavior, role, history, and identity.

This failure often appears as:

they showed who they are

while the hidden truth may be:

they produced a signal under conditions we have not fully audited

or:

this label explains them

while the overlooked condition is:

the label may be organizing future perception more than describing reality

The restorative question is:

is this signal describing identity, or has identity been captured by the signal?

Identity-Binding Signal Capture turns interpretation into constraint.

3. Failure Signature

Typical signature:

signal appears
context audit↓
identity binding↑
future interpretation narrows
revision capacity↓
H↑

Extended signature:

temporary state becomes permanent identity
role becomes essence
mistake becomes character
reaction becomes trait
diagnosis becomes whole person
success becomes fixed obligation
silence becomes consent
refusal becomes hostility
feedback becomes self-definition
past record becomes future destiny

Common forms include:

a user expresses distress once and is treated as inherently unstable
a worker makes one mistake and becomes the risky employee
a group refuses a demand and is labeled uncooperative
a person performs competence once and is permanently overloaded
a community signals caution and is labeled resistant
a child struggles in one context and is labeled incapable
an AI system infers fixed preference from a temporary request
a platform treats a prior violation as permanent identity rather than bounded history
an institution treats silence as identity-aligned agreement
a team treats someone’s role as their whole interpretive boundary

The defining condition is not that a signal is interpreted.

The defining condition is that the interpretation binds identity beyond the signal’s valid scope.

4. Primary U-Layer Origin

Common origin layers:

• U1 — Power / Budgets: stronger nodes can impose identity-binding labels on weaker nodes.
• U2 — Configuration / Boundaries: classification systems fail to separate state, role, behavior, and identity.
• U3 — Execution / Runtime: interaction routines respond to the label rather than the live node.
• U4 — Information / Truth: primary layer; interpretation substitutes for identity truth.
• U5 — Coordination / Time: early or past signals persist beyond their valid time window.
• U6 — Coherence Field: identity labels create felt explanatory coherence.
• U7 — Memory / Recurrence: records preserve the binding and repeat it.
• U8 — Environment / Field: cultural, institutional, algorithmic, or relational fields reward simple identity labels.

Common manifestation layers:

• U2 — Boundaries: signal and identity boundary collapses.
• U3 — Execution: treatment changes according to label.
• U4 — Truth: label becomes truth.
• U5 — Time: old signal remains active.
• U6 — Field: explanation aura hardens.
• U7 — Memory: identity capture persists through records.

Identity-Binding Signal Capture is primarily a U4 truth-substitution / BΣ boundary failure.

The system confuses a signal about the node with the node itself.

5. Typical Development Sequence

A common development sequence is:

1. Node emits a signal.
2. Observer, institution, model, interface, group, or partner interprets it.
3. Interpretation is compressed into label.
4. Label attaches to identity.
5. Future signals are filtered through the label.
6. The node’s attempts to clarify or revise are interpreted through the same label.
7. The captured identity becomes self-reinforcing.
8. Agency and standing narrow.
9. Hidden debt accumulates as misreadings compound.
10. The node may internalize, resist, exit, or become increasingly distorted by the capture.

The loop often looks like:

signal → label → identity binding → filtered perception → confirming interpretation

Another common loop is:

node clarifies → clarification read through label → label strengthened

Identity-Binding Signal Capture becomes self-reinforcing when the label controls the evidence field.

6. Diagnostic Markers

Diagnostic markers include:

• A single signal receives whole-identity interpretation.
• Context is not audited before identity assignment.
• Clarification is treated as confirmation of the label.
• Future evidence is interpreted through the captured identity.
• The node cannot revise, mature, recover, or recontextualize.
• A role, state, diagnosis, or mistake becomes essence.
• The system treats identity as more stable than evidence supports.
• The node’s own standing is reduced.
• Time validation is absent.
• Contradictory signals are dismissed.
• Records preserve old identity bindings without expiration.
• Restoration improves when signal, state, role, behavior, and identity are separated.

Useful diagnostics:

• Signal / Identity Separation: Tests whether the signal remains bounded.
• Identity Binding Strength: Measures how strongly the label constrains future interpretation.
• Context Completeness: Tests whether conditions around the signal were understood.
• Time Validation: Determines whether the signal remains valid over time.
• Revision Availability: Measures whether the node can update or correct the binding.
• Agency Preservation: Tests whether identity assignment preserves choice and standing.
• Label Auditability: Determines whether the binding can be inspected and challenged.
• Boundary Integrity: Tests separation between signal and node.
• Hidden Debt: Tracks burden caused by misclassification.
• Local Coherence: Tests whether identity assignment improves or distorts relation.

7. Related Gates

Relevant gates include:

• Identity Boundary Gate: Fails when a signal becomes identity too quickly or deeply.
• Signal Classification Gate: Fails when signal, state, role, behavior, history, and identity are conflated.
• Consent / Standing Gate: Fails when identity claims are imposed without appropriate standing.
• Time Validation Gate: Fails when local signals are treated as durable without time evidence.
• Revision Gate: Fails when labels cannot be updated or challenged.
• Auditability Gate: Fails when identity bindings cannot be inspected.
• Context Gate: Fails when signal conditions are ignored.
• Relational Boundary Gate: Fails when relation-specific signals are generalized beyond their scope.
• Local Coherence Gate: Fails when the binding degrades actual interaction.

The first common gate failure is usually the Identity Boundary Gate.

The system fails to keep signal separate from identity.

8. Related Operators

Relevant operators include:

• BΣ — Boundary Integrity: Primary operator; preserves separation between signal and identity.
• Ψ — Observation / Interface: Determines what signal is seen and how it is framed.
• O — Coherence: May appear improved because the label simplifies interpretation.
• Au — Auditability: Determines whether the binding can be challenged.
• Λ — Compatibility: Tests whether the label fits the actual node over time.
• K — Constraint / Load: Rises when the node must carry misclassification.
• H — Hidden Debt: Accumulates through constrained agency and repeated misreading.
• Γ — Selection: Selects which signal becomes identity-defining.
• R — Restoration Capacity: Repairs misclassification and restores agency.
• D — Damping: Should slow premature identity binding.
• Φ — Flow / Resource Movement: Determines how treatment changes after label assignment.
• G — Gain: Incentivizes simple labels that reduce uncertainty or preserve power.
• Τ — Trajectory / Time: Tracks whether identity claim survives time validation.

Common operator pattern:

signal appears
Ψ compresses signal
Γ selects identity label
BΣ signal / identity boundary fails
O appears improved through explanation
Au around label is weak
K rises on node
H accumulates
Τ reveals mismatch later

The core operator inversion is:

signal observed → identity known

instead of:

signal observed + context + time validation + consent / standing + revisability → possible identity-relevant evidence

Identity-Binding Signal Capture turns observation into definition.

9. Related Laws and Invariants

Related Laws

• Signal Must Not Become Identity Without Validation: local signals require boundary and time checks.
• State Is Not Identity: temporary states cannot define the whole node.
• Role Is Not Essence: function or position is not personhood or total system identity.
• Feedback Must Preserve Boundary: feedback must not capture the node.
• Interpretation Must Remain Revisable: labels must remain updateable.
• Identity Must Not Be Captured by Local Signal: partial evidence must not totalize.
• Choice Under Clarity: identity-relevant claims require clear, non-coercive conditions.
• Pseudo-Coherence: labels can create false explanatory order.
• Hidden Debt Accumulation: misclassification accumulates burden over time.
• Narrative Dominance: identity story overrides live evidence.
• U4 Truth Substitution: interpretation replaces truth.
• Boundary Integrity: coherent interaction requires preserved boundaries.

Related Invariants

• Signals Must Remain Separable from Identity: no local cue should automatically define the node.
• Identity Binding Requires Time Validation: durable identity claims need trajectory evidence.
• Partial Signals Must Not Define Whole Nodes: part cannot substitute for whole.
• Feedback Must Preserve Agency: feedback should not eliminate revision.
• Labels Must Remain Auditable: identity claims must be inspectable and challengeable.
• Identity Claims Must Remain Consent-Aware: imposed identity requires strong justification and standing.
• Relational Cues Must Not Collapse Personhood: interaction-specific signals must not totalize the being.

10. Common False Positives

Not every identity-relevant interpretation is Identity-Binding Signal Capture.

Common false positives include:

• A self-chosen identity marker.
• A durable pattern validated over time.
• A role label used only for bounded function.
• A diagnosis used as support, not total identity.
• A risk classification with clear appeal and expiration.
• A reputation formed from repeated, auditable behavior.
• A preference inferred with easy correction.
• A stable commitment explicitly chosen by the node.
• A community identity named by the community itself.
• A temporary label used for immediate coordination.
• A protective classification that preserves agency and review.
• A signal treated as evidence, not essence.

Clarifying rule:

This is not Identity-Binding Signal Capture unless a partial, temporary, contextual, role-based, reactive, or interpreted signal is fused to identity in a way that constrains future interpretation, agency, standing, revision, or repair beyond the signal’s valid scope.

11. Common False Repairs

Common false repairs include:

• replacing one label with another
• softening the label language while keeping the identity binding
• adding disclaimers without changing treatment
• allowing correction only through high-burden appeals
• asking the node to prove they are not the label
• treating internal disagreement as confirmation of the binding
• allowing time to pass without record update
• reframing the label as “just feedback”
• keeping the identity binding in hidden records
• offering support for the captured identity instead of releasing the capture
• requiring the node to perform a new identity to escape the old one
• using aggregate category repair while preserving individual misclassification
• treating clarification as defensiveness
• creating more nuanced but still totalizing profiles
• moving the binding from explicit label to interface behavior

False repair often produces the loop:

identity binding challenged → label refined → binding remains → agency still constrained

Another common loop is:

node resists label → resistance interpreted through label → label strengthened

The repair fails because it changes the label surface without restoring signal / identity separation.

12. Restoration Direction

Restoration requires separating signal from identity, reopening context, restoring auditability and revision, validating over time, and returning agency and standing to the affected node.

Primary restoration direction:

separate signal from identity,
audit the binding,
restore revision,
and validate identity claims over time

A fuller restoration path includes:

1. Name the signal. Identify the event, cue, behavior, reaction, role, label, state, or interpretation that became binding.
2. Name the identity claim. Identify what the signal was treated as proving.
3. Map the binding path. Determine how the signal became attached to identity.
4. Audit context. Identify conditions, constraints, roles, pressure, missing information, or relational dynamics around the signal.
5. Separate signal categories. Distinguish state, behavior, role, preference, history, affiliation, and identity.
6. Restore standing. Allow the node to clarify, revise, contextualize, or challenge the binding.
7. Restore auditability. Make the label, record, inference, or treatment inspectable.
8. Add time validation. Require durable evidence before identity-level claims persist.
9. Update records and interfaces. Remove hidden or stale bindings.
10. Repair downstream treatment. Correct decisions, relations, or flows shaped by the identity capture.
11. Account hidden debt. Identify burden created by misclassification.
12. Preserve legitimate pattern recognition. Keep validated evidence without totalizing.
13. Prevent recurrence. Install gates requiring context, time, and revision before identity binding.

A valid restoration path should reduce:

identity overbinding
misclassification debt
agency loss
revision blockage
context collapse
label inertia
future interpretation narrowing
H

Identity-Binding Signal Capture is not repaired by denying all identity.

It is repaired by keeping identity claims proportionate, auditable, consent-aware, and time-valid.

13. Cross-Module Links

• Interactions / Signals / Couplings: Core ISC failure in signal interpretation, coupling, consent, boundaries, and relation geometry.
• Identity: Protects the difference between signal, state, role, pattern, and chosen identity.
• Interfaces: Interface labels, profiles, dashboards, and model inferences can bind signals to identity.
• AI Governance: AI systems can infer durable user identity, risk, preference, capability, or intent from partial interactions without valid context or revision.
• Justice: Misclassification can constrain standing, credibility, remedy, or future treatment.
• Restoration: Repair requires releasing false bindings and restoring agency.
• Cybernetics: Feedback must remain information, not totalizing identity capture.
• Diagnostics: Requires signal/identity separation, time validation, revision, and label audit diagnostics.
• Coherence: Coherent relation requires that signals inform identity only within valid bounds.

14. Relationship to Parent / Child Modes

Production treatment: Standalone Entry / Canon-aligned

This mode maps upward to:

• FM-CORE-006 — U4 Truth Substitution
• FM-CIF-004 — Awareness Radius Suppression
• FM-AIX-011 — Epistemic Distortion
• FM-CORE-001 — Pseudo-Coherence
• FM-CORE-002 — Hidden Debt Accumulation

Sibling or related ISC modes include:

• FM-ISC-002 — Constraint Signal Misclassification
• FM-ISC-003 — Urgency Substitution
• FM-ISC-014 — Reflection Without Integration

Related cross-family modes include:

• FM-CORE-006 — U4 Truth Substitution
• FM-CORE-001 — Pseudo-Coherence
• FM-CORE-002 — Hidden Debt Accumulation
• FM-CIF-004 — Awareness Radius Suppression
• FM-AIX-011 — Epistemic Distortion
• FM-AIX-014 — Ontology Freeze
• FM-JC-007 — Manufactured Consent
• FM-JC-012 — Silence Misread as Stability
• FM-R-003 — Insight Without Load Reduction
• FM-R-009 — Therapeutic Capture
• FM-MT-016 — Ideological Capture
• FM-C-022 — Dominance Masquerading as Control

Aliases preserved from source material:

• Identity-Binding Signal Capture
• Identity Signal Capture
• Signal-to-Identity Fusion
• Identity Overbinding
• State-to-Identity Capture
• Role-to-Identity Capture
• Feedback Identity Binding
• Label Capture
• Signal Essentialization
• Temporary Signal Reification

15. Minimal Entry Version

Definition: Identity-Binding Signal Capture occurs when a signal, interpretation, feedback, label, role, diagnosis, preference, reaction, state, mistake, success, affiliation, or relational cue becomes fused to identity, causing the system to treat a temporary or partial signal as a durable definition of the node.

Signature:

signal appears
context audit↓
identity binding↑
future interpretation narrows
revision capacity↓
H↑

Restoration direction:

• name the signal
• name the identity claim
• map the binding path
• audit context
• separate signal categories
• restore standing
• restore auditability
• add time validation
• update records and interfaces
• repair downstream treatment
• account hidden debt
• preserve legitimate pattern recognition
• prevent recurrence

16. Machine-Readable Summary

failure_mode:
  id: "FM-ISC-001"
  name: "Identity-Binding Signal Capture"
  family: "Interactions / Signals / Couplings"
  production_treatment: "Standalone Entry / Canon-aligned"
  parent_modes:
    - "FM-CORE-006 — U4 Truth Substitution"
    - "FM-CIF-004 — Awareness Radius Suppression"
    - "FM-AIX-011 — Epistemic Distortion"
    - "FM-CORE-001 — Pseudo-Coherence"
    - "FM-CORE-002 — Hidden Debt Accumulation"
  primary_failure: "A partial, temporary, contextual, role-based, reactive, or interpreted signal is fused to identity in a way that constrains future interpretation, agency, standing, revision, or repair beyond the signal’s valid scope."
  source: "UTS — Failure Modes Registry"
  source_id: "FM-ISC-001"
  scope_note: "Conceptual and systems-oriented; does not treat identity, self-description, role, stable pattern, diagnosis, reputation, classification, preference, commitment, affiliation, or durable trait recognition as inherently failed."
  aliases:
    - "Identity-Binding Signal Capture"
    - "Identity Signal Capture"
    - "Signal-to-Identity Fusion"
    - "Identity Overbinding"
    - "State-to-Identity Capture"
    - "Role-to-Identity Capture"
    - "Feedback Identity Binding"
    - "Label Capture"
    - "Signal Essentialization"
    - "Temporary Signal Reification"
  signature:
    - "signal appears"
    - "context audit↓"
    - "identity binding↑"
    - "future interpretation narrows"
    - "revision capacity↓"
    - "H↑"
  primary_layers:
    origin:
      - "U1 — Power / Budgets"
      - "U2 — Configuration / Boundaries"
      - "U3 — Execution / Runtime"
      - "U4 — Information / Truth"
      - "U5 — Coordination / Time"
      - "U6 — Coherence Field"
      - "U7 — Memory / Recurrence"
      - "U8 — Environment / Field"
    manifestation:
      - "U2 — Boundaries"
      - "U3 — Execution"
      - "U4 — Truth"
      - "U5 — Time"
      - "U6 — Field"
      - "U7 — Memory"
  state_variables:
    - "BΣ"
    - "Ψ"
    - "O"
    - "Au"
    - "Λ"
    - "K"
    - "H"
    - "Γ"
    - "R"
    - "D"
    - "Φ"
    - "G"
    - "Τ"
  first_gate_failure: "Identity Boundary Gate"
  restoration:
    - "Signal / Identity Separation"
    - "Label Audit Restoration"
    - "Identity Boundary Repair"
    - "Context Re-expansion"
    - "Time Validation Reopening"
    - "Agency Restoration"
    - "Revision Path Restoration"
    - "Consent / Standing Recheck"
    - "Hidden Identity Debt Accounting"
    - "Local Coherence Restoration"