The VaultMind Execution Constitution: A Constitutional Charter for Enforceable Authority at the Moment of Execution

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18496368

Modern computational and autonomous systems increasingly fail not due to lack of intelligence, but due to unconstrained execution authority enforced only through post-hoc governance mechanisms. This paper introduces the VaultMind Execution Constitution, a formal constitutional charter that binds all consequential system actions to provable delegated authority, validated scope, contextual admissibility, temporal constraints, and mandatory refusal under uncertainty. By enforcing admissibility at the moment of execution rather than after harm occurs, the Constitution structurally eliminates classes of failure including authority drift, cascade failure, replay exploitation, coordination runaway, override abuse, boundary creep, and enforcement bypass. The framework operates as a universal execution boundary applicable across autonomous agents, infrastructure systems, financial systems, and degraded operational environments, enabling prevention by design rather than retrospective control.

Citation: Menard, M. (2026). VaultMind Execution Constitution: A Constitutional Charter for Enforceable Authority at the Moment of Execution (v1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18496368