Replay-native doctrine
These principles frame replay as an operating discipline: preserve lineage, make drift inspectable, and keep recovery paths reconstructable as trust posture evolves.
A replay-native system preserves enough ordered context around prompts, tools, approvals, retries, and handoffs that operators can inspect behavior after the session has passed. Replay does not require exposing every payload; it requires a coherent trail of what the runtime believed, attempted, and changed.
Lineage connects each action to its predecessor, successor, owner, and review posture. When lineage persists across runtime boundaries, teams can understand how a decision moved through tools and agents instead of rebuilding the chain from disconnected logs.
Drift becomes operationally useful when it can be located, named, and compared against an expected path. Replay-native systems should make changes in authority, policy fit, continuity, and confidence visible before the review becomes forensic reconstruction.
Recovery is not only whether a workflow eventually completed. It is whether the checkpoint, attempted fix, authority boundary, and downstream state can be reconstructed by a reviewer who was not present during the incident.
Trust posture should change through visible procedures: evidence captured, deltas explained, reviews completed, continuity preserved, and recoveries documented. It should not depend on a single static score or an unverifiable claim that the system is safe.
Developer certification posture
Recon may use badge language to describe the posture expected of replay-native developer ecosystems. These labels are illustrative and aspirational today; they do not represent a live audit, paid certification, partner endorsement, or compliance program.
The runtime is designed to preserve inspectable replay context around consequential steps.
The integration can emit receipt-style evidence for lineage, deltas, checkpoints, and review notes.
The system can describe relationships among agents, tools, policies, and posture transitions.
The workflow carries enough metadata through handoffs and recovery paths for later reconstruction.