Assess whether monitoring detects drift or only outages (b01e16)
August 31, 2026
SITUATION Decision-audit trail with gaps at the human-gate step arrived with an examiner asking who authorized last Tuesday's model output for post-deployment monitoring owner. That is a AI Governance Layer Control Plane and Scoring decision on monitoring detects drift or in a manufacturer sunsetting a vision model still used in QA.
DECISION Post-deployment monitoring owner in a manufacturer sunsetting a vision model still used in QA must choose Monitoring detects drift / Only outages using decision-audit trail with gaps at the human-gate step after an examiner asking who authorized last Tuesday's model output.
HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize Monitoring detects drift now; decision-audit trail with gaps at the human-gate step already has the discriminator after an examiner asking who authorized last Tuesday's model output. 2. Keep Only outages in force until decision-audit trail with gaps at the human-gate step is completed after an examiner asking who authorized last Tuesday's model output for post-deployment monitoring owner. 3. Treat decision-audit trail with gaps at the human-gate step as Monitoring detects drift because both readings appear after an examiner asking who authorized last Tuesday's model output. 4. Refuse a AI Governance Layer close: post-deployment monitoring owner does not have the decision monitoring detects drift or turns on in decision-audit trail with gaps at the human-gate step.
ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Map the control-plane score in decision-audit trail with gaps at the human-gate step to the policy gate post-deployment monitoring owner can enforce. 2. Name the override that would let monitoring detects drift or proceed without a silent bypass. 3. Test whether an examiner asking who authorized last Tuesday's model output changed routing, logging, or human-in-the-loop on the live agent path. 4. For this AI Governance Layer Control Plane and Scoring file, read decision-audit trail with gaps at the human-gate step against an examiner asking who authorized last Tuesday's model output and write the one fact that would move monitoring detects drift or for post-deployment monitoring owner.
RECOMMENDATION Choose Monitoring detects drift / Only outages on this AI Governance Layer / Control Plane and Scoring packet (decision-audit trail with gaps at the human-gate step after an examiner asking who authorized last Tuesday's model output). Lead with the AI Governance Layer option decision-audit trail with gaps at the human-gate step can support after an examiner asking who authorized last Tuesday's model output, then the two facts that force it, then the Monday action for post-deployment monitoring owner in a manufacturer sunsetting a vision model still used in QA.
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