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Token Liability

The inference-cost component of Preventable Computation: token expenditure attributable to a trajectory that an institutionally available runtime control could have held before further execution.

Why it matters

Isolates the token and inference-cost slice of Preventable Computation. Token Liability is narrower than Preventable Computation; it captures only the inference-cost slice.

Control relationship

Authorized meaning must remain connected to the meaning operationalized at runtime.

Token Liability isolates the token and inference-cost slice of Preventable Computation at the earliest governable checkpoint.