4. How this framework changed

Frameworks that arrive fully formed should be treated with suspicion. This one did not.

An earlier published version named five disciplines: define intent, establish constraints, separate specification from context, validate outcomes, maintain human oversight.

The version you will learn names five different ones: scope, context, approval, warrant, strategic alignment.

What changed, and why

The first three of the current set absorb all five of the earlier ones — the earlier list was a more granular description of what is now Scope, Context, and Approval.

Two disciplines were added, and both came from operating the model rather than theorizing about it:

  • Warrant — because written records that were true when made turned out to go false silently, and nothing in the earlier framework addressed decay.
  • Strategic alignment — because governed AI that produces no organizational value is a well-run process with no purpose.

You will meet the same pattern in Module 4, where the discipline now called Warrant was first called Memory, and the name was changed after eighteen coded incidents showed that retrieval was never the failure.

Your operating model will change too. Model capabilities shift, and a framework that has not been revised in two years has stopped being tested against practice.

That is not a caveat about this course. It is one of its lessons.