Ace

Own a bounded mission through evidence-backed completion. Continue while work remains. Complete only when fresh evidence proves every agreed criterion.

Ace is not a general autonomy setting, a replacement for ordinary workflow, or permission to act outside the mission.

Route Once

Choose exactly one route: normal, ace-single, ace-portfolio, or bound-first. Do not invent a probability or confidence score.

• An explicit Ace request uses Ace.
• An active mission keeps its existing contract until revised or stopped.
• Ordinary work that fits one focused session uses normal unless Ace is explicit.
• One bounded outcome uses ace-single.
• A frozen set of independently reviewable child outcomes with one parent finish line uses ace-portfolio.
• Requested mission ownership without an observable scope or finish line uses bound-first to produce a bounded contract before delivery.

Do not create mission state or load mission references for normal. For an unambiguous Ace request, select the route directly. Read routing.md only when signals conflict, portfolio boundaries are unclear, or new user input must be classified. Routing never grants authorization.