---
slug: "Promisehinge"
name: "Promisehinge"
type: "Governance"
layer: "Society"
ref: "Promisehinge#680a"
sema_id: "sema:Promisehinge#mh:SHA-256:680a37b683432500de0da328a91373a78cfe3f4df362bbb04e9bf0b4000edc4f"
tags: ["Society","Governance"]
updated: 2026-11-11
mindscape: "bootstrap"
index_url: https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/index.json
url: https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Promisehinge/
related: ["Strategy","CommitmentDevice#548b","Sunsetkind"]
---

# Promisehinge

A public commitment that states in advance what evidence would require revising it

Layer: Society · Category: Governance

## Mechanism

A public commitment states, when it is made, the evidence that would require revising it and how a revision would be announced and explained, much as a [Strategy](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Strategy.md) states its revision trigger. When that evidence appears, the commitment is revised as stated, not quietly kept and not quietly dropped.

## Invariants

- States, when made, the evidence that would require revision.
- A revision is announced together with the evidence that triggered it.

## Failure modes

- Unfalsifiable promise: no evidence could ever trigger a revision.
- Quiet drop: the commitment is abandoned without the announced explanation.

## Builds on

- [Strategy](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Strategy.md) (Mind; References)

## Used by

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## Identity

- Sema ID: `sema:Promisehinge#mh:SHA-256:680a37b683432500de0da328a91373a78cfe3f4df362bbb04e9bf0b4000edc4f`
- Ref: `Promisehinge#680a`

## Links

- [Pattern page](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Promisehinge/)
- [View in the interactive graph](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/#Promisehinge)
- [JSON](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Promisehinge.json)
- [Index of all patterns](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/index.json)