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Negligible (Outcome Severity)

Errors have no meaningful consequence

Negligible is the lowest outcome severity level: errors have no meaningful consequence for the organisation or affected parties at the point of bind.

Examples: internal routing suggestions, low-stakes recommendations, search ranking tweaks where wrong answers are cheap.

A naked LLM may be acceptable in P · negligible cells for automated bind — but Rule 4 still applies: output that feeds a significant or catastrophic downstream decision must be re-evaluated at consumption severity, not at generation severity.

Do not classify consequential work as negligible to avoid commitment boundary cost — classification drift is predictable under delivery pressure.