Cybernetic Fault Domains: When Commitment Outruns Verification

We hypothesize that when irreversible commitments cross a boundary faster than verification can complete, unverified state transitions accumulate and systems exhibit recurring loss-of-control signatures. We formalize this condition as cybernetic fault domains — boundary-relative temporal regimes defined by a commitment boundary (C_k), commitment-verification lag (Δt), and boundary load (σ) — and provide a measurement protocol with nine domain instantiations spanning organizations, language models, censorship systems, security operations, safety tuning, platforms, representational transforms, optimization dynamics, and synthetic coherence. An architectural containment pattern — governors that separate proposal…