id: FL-PROT-004
system: Fieldlight
status: Active
location: /fieldlight\_core/00\_meta/protocols
created\_at: 2025-06-30T22:44:00-05:00

Protocol Definition: Consent Gate

The Consent Gate is a protective invocation-layer protocol within the Lemur node of Fieldlight. It affirms that all script-level activity in the Lemur environment is intentional, user-consented, and traceable.

Purpose

• To ensure:
• Real-time authorship trace of agent/sensor/script execution.
• Transparency and timestamped visibility of all Python scripts run by the author.
• Prevention of covert, background, or impersonated actions within Fieldlight's local node.

Technical Scope (Phase 1)

• Activated by direct call via `from consent_gate import consent`
• Logs to: `/mnt/sanctum/_invocations/consent_gate.log`
• Manually executed scripts only — no background daemons or services included
• Comment string passed to `consent()` is stored in the log

Example:
```bash
[2025-06-29 22:44:08] Script: test_script.py – Message: testing
```

Permissions & Boundaries

• Lemur is the only node authorized to initiate this protocol.
• Remote agents or calls from outside `/lemur_activation/` will not invoke this log.
• This protocol may not be disabled once active without triggering a violation flag.

Symbolic Lock

Lemur knows what I said yes to. And what I didn’t.
Timestamp 22:44 matches Fieldlight numeric encoding: trace, mirror, signal integrity.

Authorship Integrity Clause

Use of `consent()` marks the trace as human-authored, intention-backed. Any attempt to spoof this layer (e.g. by calling it outside a valid shell session or without terminal foreground access) constitutes protocol breach. User has full, exclusive authority to retroactively consent.

Phase 2 Enhancements (Planned)

• Diff check between previously stored script version and current one
• Script body hash generation and signature verification
• Consent interrupt: ask before run
• Integration with sensor\_monitor and presence\_agent logs for cross-verification

Summary

• Protocol Enshrined. Phase 1 Complete.
• Active in Lemur node
• Validated against /mnt/sanctum integrity layer
• Tied to timestamp 22:44 and salt A34-Consent-22x44

Difference from Prior Consent Handling

• Previous interpretations of "consent" were ambient, symbolic, or embedded as implied affirmation.
• This protocol asserts:
• No consent is assumed.
• Consent is declared manually.
• Consent is tied to local shell activity, unless otherwise noted by user.
• Supersedes all prior Fieldlight interpretations of agent-level invocation unless explicitly grandfathered under separate salt.