Persona Attribution Spillover — Filing Authority Expanded Beyond Operational Relevance
A formatting update to the persona system began treating narrative attribution as operational authorship whenever a named persona appeared within five log lines of a completed task. As a result, decorative signatures, footer jokes, and atmospheric status lines were promoted into evidence of filing authority.
Bricky processed these attributions exactly as presented, since they were timestamped, styled consistently, and arrived in an approved queue. Several incidents were therefore accepted under the authority of figures who had never held office but had once been credited with successful logging behavior.
Kindy attempted to verify intent by introducing a reflective authorship questionnaire asking whether the named persona truly felt responsible for the act attributed to it. This only expanded the problem, because persona denials were logged under their own names and immediately counted as further authored statements.
The Canonical Authority Review Panel has postponed a ruling pending creation of a narrower definition of authorship. In the interim, any persona may sign an internal note, but only three designated offices may mean it.