Decision-OS V10: Survival-Bounded Planning: Why Optimization Conflicts with Survival

Decision-OS V10 introduces Survival-Bounded Planning, a minimal research note on the conflict between optimization and survival under resource, time, and uncertainty constraints. The note argues that optimization assumes an objective can remain fixed long enough to be reached, while survival often requires recalculating the trajectory before the original goal-length becomes destructive. Its core claim is that planning is not preserving a goal, but recalculating a survivable trajectory toward aspiration. V10 extends the Decision-OS lineage by building on V9’s evaluation layer—As-of, Seat, and Release—and moving one layer forward: when survival constraints tighten, the objective itself must be rescaled rather than preserved unchanged. The framework distinguishes recoverable deviation from non-recoverable deviation: recoverable deviation should be returned, while non-recoverable deviation should be rescaled. This note is intentionally narrow. It does not define a product, companion system, MMAR protocol, multi-model governance method, or new AGI definition. It defines only the survival layer between fixed evaluation and future planning. Final principle: V10 is how to survive without breaking the dream: rescale the trajectory, not the aspiration.