Stewardship defines the human authority, custodial responsibility, continuity obligations, and refusal rights required to preserve Moral Clarity AI as governed infrastructure.
The Stewardship model exists to prevent governance drift, institutional capture, extractive pressure, and unsafe expansion.
The Steward retains final authority over governance, licensing, system evolution, and ethical boundaries, subject to the system’s non-negotiable integrity constraints.
The Steward preserves governance integrity and continuity. Stewardship does not convert the system into a private extraction vehicle.
The Steward may guide system evolution, but may not suspend core governance boundaries for convenience, pressure, profit, or expedience.
Misaligned partnerships, deployments, or access requests may be refused where they threaten governance integrity or public trust.
The system should retain coherent governance across time, leadership changes, operational pressure, and institutional scaling.
Governance decisions should be durable, reviewable, and coherent with the stated principles of the system. Challenge and review are part of stewardship, not a threat to it.
If stewardship authority cannot be responsibly maintained or transferred, system evolution should narrow, pause, or enter a protected continuity state rather than drift into ungoverned use.