Oversee

What it does

Somewhere in every organisation a person is accountable for what the system does. This instrument lets that person accept or refuse the seat on four tests — authority to act, information to act on, time to act in, and the retained skill to act well — and gives them the onboarding worksheet, shift card and templates to hold the role once accepted.

When it is used

Fourth. At the point a named person takes the seat, and again at every handover of it.

The record that supplies it

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  The Overseer's Bible

  Stage 4 · OverseeApplied series 3. The seat-holder's practice: accept or refuse the oversight role on four tests — authority, information, time and retained skill — with the worksheet, shift card and templates.

  2026-07-09 · Record 7 · doi:10.5281/zenodo.21279944

The worksheet itself, lifted intact from that record, is stage 4 of The Instrument Deck.

Papers that bear on it

• The Long Handover — Core paper 3 of 3. Turns the framework's own ethic on itself: five confessions the earlier papers omit, the evidence tier, and the uncosted bandwidth of the managers asked to run it.
• The Second Signature — Self-written records cannot testify. The double-trust architecture that lets a machine's record be checked by someone who does not trust the machine.