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Guardrail by absence

Also called Empty namespace ruling.

Preventing harm by declining to build the affordance, so that no judgment is required at the moment of use. The design argument is paid once, at the token or component namespace, where a dismissible dialog charges a correct decision every time it appears; the absence holds only while a standing rule names the failure mode it exists to prevent.

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