{
  "id": "commercial_limit_guardrails",
  "label": "Commercial Limit Guardrails Canonical",
  "phase": "phase-11",
  "category": "client_provisioning_server_plans",
  "status": "ACTIVE_DH_MIRROR",
  "purpose": "Commercial Limit Guardrails Canonical is the Phase 11 brake layer that prevents automated provisioning from creating uncontrolled cost or unauthorized scale.",
  "function": "Apply spend ceilings, upgrade thresholds, provider variance tolerance and escalation rules before a provisioning request can move from approved purchase policy into executable infrastructure intent.",
  "technology_requirements": [
    {
      "technology": "Commercial Limit Guardrails",
      "required_for": "Commercial Limit Guardrails Canonical is the Phase 11 brake layer that prevents automated provisioning from creating uncontrolled cost or unauthorized scale.",
      "required_by_phase": "phase-11",
      "required_by_category": "commercial_limit_guardrails",
      "required_by_buckets": [
        "Prerequisites",
        "Installation",
        "Configuration",
        "Validation",
        "Observable Evidence",
        "Failure Modes & Recovery",
        "Completion & Promotion"
      ],
      "expected_version": "MISSING until Commercial Limit Guardrails is implemented and validated in the future Execution & Monitoring Panel",
      "validation_command": "MISSING until commercial_limit_guardrails can prove scope, evidence, execution state and promotion decision",
      "evidence_path": "/home/yeff/public_html/devon/canon/execution/state/dh_sources/commercial_limit_guardrails.json",
      "status_source": "Documentation Hub + future Execution & Monitoring Panel",
      "blocking_if_missing": true,
      "failure_impact": "If this overview fails, technically successful provisioning can create recurring cost exposure that no later server hardening step can fix."
    }
  ],
  "depends_on": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "overview": {
    "summary": "Commercial Limit Guardrails Canonical is the Phase 11 brake layer that prevents automated provisioning from creating uncontrolled cost or unauthorized scale.",
    "function": "FUNCTION: Apply spend ceilings, upgrade thresholds, provider variance tolerance and escalation rules before a provisioning request can move from approved purchase policy into executable infrastructure intent.",
    "system_position": "This overview defines the economic and operational limits that keep client-server provisioning from scaling beyond approved business constraints. It translates risk, cost ceiling and plan boundary into provisioning blockers. Its authority is not payment capture; it is limit enforcement before infrastructure expansion. It protects Devon from runaway server purchases, underpriced runtime commitments and customer-plan mismatch.",
    "failure_impact": "If this overview fails, technically successful provisioning can create recurring cost exposure that no later server hardening step can fix."
  },
  "failure_impact": "If this overview fails, technically successful provisioning can create recurring cost exposure that no later server hardening step can fix."
}