SAFE-Matter™ Constitutional State Transition Rules: Deterministic Runtime Movement Between Admissibility, Degradation, UNKNOWN, Denial, Safe-State, and Recovery

SAFE-Matter™ Constitutional State Transition Rules establishes the deterministic runtime governance architecture governing movement between admissibility, degradation, UNKNOWN, denial, safe-state behaviour, and recovery within consequence-bearing systems. The paper defines the constitutional runtime conditions under which operational authority may continue, become constrained, deteriorate, be revoked, transition into protective execution states, or be re-established following evidential restoration. SAFE-Matter™ rejects assumption-based continuity and historic legitimacy inheritance. Instead, execution authority exists only while present-state admissibility remains continuously provable at the exact moment of reliance. The framework establishes deterministic constitutional transition governance based upon evidential sufficiency, signal authenticity, dependency continuity, temporal validity, identity integrity, and uncertainty escalation. Runtime authority therefore weakens progressively as evidential certainty deteriorates. The paper further defines UNKNOWN as a governed constitutional condition rather than an informational absence, establishing deterministic escalation rules governing unresolved operational uncertainty. SAFE-Matter™ consequently transforms runtime governance from reactive fault recognition into continuously governed constitutional admissibility enforcement operating directly at the execution boundary itself.