Module incapacity_switch 

Incapacity switch — involuntary psychiatric admission / serious injury (more common than death), and the discrediting-counter that goes with it.

The consideration (Timothy, 2026-07-06): the outcome for a person seeking protection is more often an involuntary psychiatric admission or a serious injury than death. Both incapacitate — but, unlike death, are reversible (the person recovers). Two mechanisms are needed:

1. Advocacy during incapacity. A pre-designated advocate/trustee is activated to act on the person’s behalf, under a gamified, corroborated trigger (a quorum of participating parties attest, optionally plus an official instrument — a committal order / medical record), and reverses on recovery.

2. A counter to weaponised discrediting. The sharp part: an involuntary psychiatric committal is frequently weaponised — the intent is to ensure no-one believes anything the person says — and that discrediting is leveraged off privacy (the committal taints; privacy then hides the context that would exonerate). The counter is that the person (or their advocate) can choose to make prior events transparent — the durable, un-erasable disclosure/conduct/cc record (e.g. “reported to the MP, then committed” → retaliation, not madness). Crucially this is:

   • the person’s choice — privacy is never forcibly lifted (autonomy);
   • honest-contingent — the system enables truthful transparency; it cannot compel honesty, and it cannot make a dishonest record true. “If the person is willing to be honest — which isn’t always the case.” What keeps even a selective disclosure bounded is that the underlying records are durable + tamper-evident (from the commons + disclosure-trace layers): the person can choose what to reveal, but cannot delete what they don’t, and the invocation itself is recorded.

Domain model + invariants; the key-release/advocacy wiring + the storage compose from crate::consent_credential / crate::disclosure_trace and the vault (coordinate).

Structs

IncapacitySwitch

A reversible incapacity switch: activates a pre-designated advocate under the trigger, reverses on recovery.

IncapacityTrigger

The gamified, corroborated trigger for activating advocacy: a quorum of participating parties attest the incapacity, optionally also requiring an independent official instrument (a committal order / medical record). Resists a false trigger by any single party.

TransparencyInvocation

A transparency invocation — the person (or, during incapacity, their advocate) chooses to make a scoped set of prior-events records transparent, to counter discrediting by showing context. The counter to privacy-weaponisation: the person’s own durable, un-erasable record, disclosed on their terms.

Enums

IncapacityKind

The kind of incapacity a switch covers.