SAFE-Matter™ State-Machine Schema: Deterministic Runtime State Governance for Admissibility, Transition Integrity, and Execution Authority in Life-Critical Systems

SAFE-Matter™ State-Machine Schema defines the formal runtime governance structure through which SAFE-Matter™ continuously determines, maintains, constrains, escalates, suspends, restores, or revokes operational execution authority within life-critical systems.The document establishes the deterministic admissibility states governing operational reliance together with the constitutional transition conditions through which execution authority may continue, degrade, recover, or fail under continuously recomputed evidential conditions.SAFE-Matter™ distinguishes operational capability from operational admissibility. A system may continue functioning technically while simultaneously becoming operationally inadmissible for reliance. Runtime state therefore represents the continuously recomputed legitimacy of operational execution rather than merely informational device status or monitoring visibility.The schema formally governs five constitutional runtime states: ADMISSIBLE, DEGRADED, ESCALATED, UNKNOWN, and NON-ADMISSIBLE. Each state represents a distinct evidential governance condition directly determining whether operational execution authority remains constitutionally permissible at the exact moment reliance occurs.The document further defines deterministic runtime transition governance including temporal admissibility decay, dependency propagation, severity weighting, hysteresis stabilisation, safe-state admissibility, distributed runtime governance, recursive governance integrity, and fail-closed operational enforcement.SAFE-Matter™ therefore transforms runtime operational governance from assumption-based continuity into continuously recomputed evidential legitimacy operating at the exact moment operational reliance occurs.The governing condition remains unchanged:Execution authority may continue only while admissible present-state evidence remains continuously provable at the exact moment operational reliance occurs.