Timing: after. Inspect the record after the fact; assign provenance and blame.
- computer: logs, event sourcing, W3C PROV, OpenTelemetry spans
- social: court, financial audit, the black box recorder
Together with gate, this is what vibe-linter already does. Its concrete form is the tamper-proof, hash-linked ledger of round-tree-flight-recorder — which doubles as the session mechanism and the DPO training-pair source.
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