# Promotion Legibility **Domain:** Governance / Agency / Institutional Access **Doc Type:** Canonical Design Principle **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Promotion legibility** is the requirement that a person can discover how to move from passive management or restricted standing into a relationship of articulated participation, service or contestable responsibility. The threshold may remain demanding and the roster private. What must remain visible is that a route exists, what kinds of demonstrated capacity matter, and how an applicant can reach an accountable interface. ## Findable Door [[articles/Ambiguity Will Destroy Man and Machine|Ambiguity Will Destroy Man and Machine]] calls this the **findable door** and treats it as the discriminator between an aspirational gradient and a caste system. A difficult door can still preserve agency; an invisible door converts administrative classification into terminal assignment. ## Safeguards Promotion cannot merely reproduce inherited wealth, institutional pedigree or platform visibility. The route should recognize demonstrated capacity, ethical restraint, anomaly detection, cross-domain synthesis and the ability to provide useful contradiction. It interfaces with [[wiki/Semantic Feedback Channel|Semantic Feedback Channel]], [[wiki/Model Contestability|Model Contestability]], [[wiki/Managed Substrate|Managed Substrate]] and [[wiki/Tiered Covenant|Tiered Covenant]]. ## Key Insight **A regime that cannot be joined cannot be corrected.**