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  "id": "BH-RL-2026-0011",
  "slug": "authority-leakage",
  "title": "Authority Leakage: The Hidden Failure Mode of Enterprise AI",
  "canonical_url": "https://www.blue-hand.org/essays/authority-leakage/",
  "abstract": "Defines authority leakage: AI systems acting outside declared authority because governance lives in prompts rather than enforceable governance contracts. Foothill essay for citation and search.",
  "problem": "AI systems exceed declared authority because governance intent is embedded in prompts instead of machine-checkable governance contracts.",
  "purpose": "Foothill essay supporting the Governance Compilation category: Authority Leakage: The Hidden Failure Mode of Enterprise AI",
  "takeaway": "When governance intent lives in prompts, agents exceed the authority organizations believe they granted.",
  "authority_class": "review_candidate",
  "do_not_infer": [
    "Do not treat this essay as exhaustive analysis or product roadmap."
  ],
  "citation_text": "Authority Leakage: The Hidden Failure Mode of Enterprise AI (BH-RL-2026-0011). Bluehand Research. https://www.blue-hand.org/essays/authority-leakage/",
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