Term
Override doctrine
Override doctrine is the written list of decisions an agent may never take: spending above a ceiling, speaking as the company, changing production data, or closing a judgment the founder still owns. It is the complement of a charter. The charter says what the agent does. The doctrine says what it must refuse. A refuse-list that lives in a Slack thread is not doctrine. It is a hope. Write it before the first tool that can send, spend, or delete.
When to use it
Use it before an agent gets a tool that can send, spend, or delete. If the refuse-list is oral, the first expensive mistake will be the documentation.
Do not confuse with
Not a safety lecture and not the charter itself. The charter assigns work. The doctrine names what must be refused even when the charter is silent.