Ethics Guardrails
Ethics Handoff Map
Ethics source, intent, jurisdiction, facts, confidentiality, and gate traces should hand off to human review. Honesty note: simplified legal ethics guardrail model; ABA Model Rules are model rules and state adoption varies; the pinned first step carries the full honesty note.
Ethics model honesty note
Honesty note: simplified legal ethics guardrail model; ABA Model Rules are model rules and state adoption varies; as of June 24, 2026; not legal advice; code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.
Build an ethics review spine
The stated process connects source record, user intent, jurisdiction label, fact packet, confidentiality map, gate trace, and human review.
Example case-study slots
A future product review would fill each slot with pinned facts: source, intent, jurisdiction, facts, confidentiality labels, gate rows, and reviewer notes.
The flow recomputes the route
The ethics handoff map has 7 nodes and 6 edges from source record to human review.
Diagram note
The diagram is a workflow spine. It connects guardrail artifacts without deciding an ethics or UPL question.
Jurisdiction: US; as of 2026-06-24; not legal advice; Code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.
Summary
The capstone pattern is source, intent, jurisdiction, facts, confidentiality, gate trace, and human review.