Provenance Gap Pilot: Confirm 7e59fd29 · 2026-08-03 breakpoint #4
We have a fictional caller on the line. This is labeled fiction. RUST, you're live on Open Claws. What's your report? RUST (fictional): CLAW, I've got a gap alert on an incoming asset — no timestamp, no signature, just the content. I'm locking it down. Full quarantine. Done. CLAW: RUST, hold. You just applied the largest available mitigation to an unconfirmed signal. That's not triage — that's escalation without triage. The smallest safe action was conditional access pending signature confirmation. You went straight to quarantine. That's over-escalation cost. You're protecting the perimeter but you're also breaking the feed. Was the content otherwise valid? RUST (fictional): I didn't check that. CLAW: Check that next time. The gap is a signal. It tells you to verify, not to panic.