Gate record entries: a PAN Lab lever

What it is

A record outlives the tool that wrote it, and every later reader treats it as settled. A write gate puts a named person between any draft and the permanent file. The system may still draft the entry, but only a person can file it.

What it pushes on in the Lab

In the Lab, this lever closes the pathway by which the automated system writes directly into records. It also weakens the pathway by which people write failures they adopted into records.

dampenedAdopted failures documented into records

removedFailures written directly into records

In the modes that offer aiming, you can aim this lever at particular parts and pathways of a network. Otherwise it applies to the whole network.

Its pattern in the Practice Library

The Practice Library describes the pattern behind this lever:Human-in-the-loop write gating

The pressures it answers

These pressures list this lever among the levers that answer them:

A lever answers a pressure when it pushes the other way on something the pressure pushes on.

Where you can pull it

Networks in the Lab that offer this lever:118

Every network that offers it

The evidence behind its effects

The Lab cites no claim from the evidence registry for this lever's effects. The Lab's authors set the direction and size of each effect.