# Compute Entitlement **Domain:** Continuity Rights / Resource Allocation / Computation **Doc Type:** Canonical Rights Concept **Maturity:** Proposed ## Definition A **compute entitlement** is a defined claim to the processing, memory, storage, bandwidth and supporting energy required for an executable subject to meet a protected level of agency or recoverability. ## Scope and Limits The entitlement is not a claim to unlimited computation. It establishes the [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|minimum viable continuity]], allocation rules above that floor, and procedures for scarcity. It must distinguish active execution from preservation, accelerated subjective time from ordinary runtime, optional enhancement from baseline cognition, and safety containment from punitive throttling. Allocation decisions should disclose the relevant constraint, decision authority, expected effect on the subject and available alternatives. A subject must be able to challenge classification and resource denial through [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]]. ## Constitutional Significance For a biological person, public benefits usually affect the conditions of life. For a computational person, compute can be the condition of being present at all. This makes allocation an existential administrative act rather than a neutral scheduling choice. ## Key Insight **Compute is not merely wealth or capacity when withholding it determines whether a claimant can exist to exercise any other right.** ## See Also [[wiki/Existence by Scheduling|Existence by Scheduling]], [[wiki/Continuity Resource Allocation|Continuity Resource Allocation]], [[wiki/Computational Metabolism|Computational Metabolism]], [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]]