# Exit-Capable Interoperability **Domain:** Standards / Sovereignty / Constitutional Design **Doc Type:** Governance Principle **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Exit-capable interoperability is compatibility designed around inspectability, portability, reproducibility, substitution, and meaningful departure.** Participants can cooperate without surrendering the practical ability to operate elsewhere. ## War With Empire Context [[wiki/War With Empire|War With Empire]] treats exit-capable interoperability as the constitutional alternative to absorption. It requires open or independently reproducible interfaces, exportable state, alternative providers, contestable standards, and transition plans proportionate to the dependency's importance. Exit need not be effortless. It must be possible without civilizational or personal destruction. ## Key Insight **Interoperability preserves sovereignty when connection does not erase the capacity to leave.** ## See Also [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]], [[wiki/Interoperability as Absorption|Interoperability as Absorption]], [[wiki/Practical Sovereignty|Practical Sovereignty]], [[wiki/Sovereign AI Security|Sovereign AI Security]]