The Governance Envelope: A Continuity-Conditioned Framework for Coherence Across Multi-Turn and Multi-Context Settings

The Governance Envelope is introduced as a calm, supervisory conceptual layer that provides a steady horizon for interpreting multi‑turn and multi‑context behaviour. Building on the continuity‑aligned motifs developed in *Continuity as the Missing Dimension*, it extends themes such as coherence, temporal echoes, conceptual boundaries, and soft thematic arcs into a broader interpretive stance. The envelope does not prescribe or direct; instead, it offers a lightly drawn outline within which variation, drift, and small irregularities may be read as participating in a loosely coherent movement. Its role is to supply a gentle interpretive steadiness—conceptual rather than structural—that situates successive contributions within a wider thematic landscape. In doing so, the Governance Envelope complements and completes the continuity‑inspired layer, providing a supervisory horizon that remains firmly within the non‑mechanistic domain.