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.

Structured Visual

Jurisdiction: US; as of 2026-06-24; not legal advice; Code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.

RENDER STRUCTURE · REFUSE INTERPRETATION · CITE · ABSTAIN · HAND-OFF: render structure, refuse interpretation, cite provenance, abstain when unsupported, and hand off to human review.

Simplified ethics handoff mapSimplified ethics handoff mapscope: US classroom ethics guardrail model | Ethics handoff model | as of 2026-06-24Simplified legal ethics guardrail model; ABA Model Rules are model rules and state adoptionvaries; not legal advice; code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.Source recordUser intentJurisdiction labelFact packetConfidentiality mapGate traceHuman reviewedge=source->intent label=labeledge=intent->jurisdiction label=labeledge=jurisdiction->facts label=packetedge=facts->confidentiality label=mapedge=confidentiality->upl label=traceedge=upl->review label=handoffSCC: scc6:source; scc5:intent; scc4:jurisdiction; scc3:facts; scc2:confidentiality; scc1:upl; scc0:review
highlighted = computed this step

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.

ethics model as of June24,2026\text{ethics model as of }June 24, 2026

Build an ethics review spine

The stated process connects source record, user intent, jurisdiction label, fact packet, confidentiality map, gate trace, and human review.

source to guardrails to review\text{source to guardrails to 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.

slots before conclusions\text{slots before conclusions}

The flow recomputes the route

The ethics handoff map has 7 nodes and 6 edges from source record to human review.

nodes=7,edges=6\text{nodes}=7,\quad \text{edges}=6

Diagram note

The diagram is a workflow spine. It connects guardrail artifacts without deciding an ethics or UPL question.

workflow to review\text{workflow to review}

Jurisdiction: US; as of 2026-06-24; not legal advice; Code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.

RENDER STRUCTURE · REFUSE INTERPRETATION · CITE · ABSTAIN · HAND-OFF: render structure, refuse interpretation, cite provenance, abstain when unsupported, and hand off to human review.

Simplified ethics handoff mapSimplified ethics handoff mapscope: US classroom ethics guardrail model | Ethics handoff model | as of 2026-06-24Simplified legal ethics guardrail model; ABA Model Rules are model rules and state adoptionvaries; not legal advice; code encodes a process and label model, not the law itself.Source recordUser intentJurisdiction labelFact packetConfidentiality mapGate traceHuman reviewedge=source->intent label=labeledge=intent->jurisdiction label=labeledge=jurisdiction->facts label=packetedge=facts->confidentiality label=mapedge=confidentiality->upl label=traceedge=upl->review label=handoffSCC: scc6:source; scc5:intent; scc4:jurisdiction; scc3:facts; scc2:confidentiality; scc1:upl; scc0:review

Summary

The capstone pattern is source, intent, jurisdiction, facts, confidentiality, gate trace, and human review.

connected review data\text{connected review data}