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Effect-Transparent Governance for AI Workflow Architectures: Semantic Preservation, Expressive Minimality, and Decidability Boundaries

Alan L. McCann

Effect-level governance can be imposed on AI workflow architectures without reducing their internal computational expressivity or changing permitted behaviors.

arxiv:2605.01030 v3 · 2026-05-01 · cs.AI · cs.LO · cs.PL

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C1strongest claim

effect-level governance can be imposed without reducing internal computational expressivity... semantic transparency: on all executions where governance permits, the governed interpretation is observationally equivalent (modulo governance-only events) to the ungoverned interpretation.

C2weakest assumption

That the Interaction Trees model with the defined governance operator G accurately captures all relevant effectful behaviors of real AI workflow architectures, including oracle queries, and that the operator mediates every effect without omission.

C3one line summary

A Rocq formalization of 12,000 lines proves that effect governance in AI workflows preserves Turing completeness, expressivity, and observational equivalence to ungoverned executions.

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arxiv: 2605.01030 · arxiv_version: 2605.01030v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.01030 · pith_short_12: MWPN56BTMJAF · pith_short_16: MWPN56BTMJAFJ4JQ · pith_short_8: MWPN56BT

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