Human + AI Parity

CAGE assumes people and automation share the same responsibilities and restrictions. AI sessions attach to work plans, follow policies, and emit audit trails exactly like human contributors.

Parity keeps trust intact. The moment AI becomes a side channel with different rules, governance dissolves and traceability breaks.

In practice

• Enforce the session protocol for every assistant interaction; no prompts without context and authorization.
• Record AI-generated outputs with the same metadata as human work: who requested it, which policy allowed it, what change it supports.
• Design reviews to treat AI suggestions as drafts that must pass the same scrutiny as any other contribution.