# Severity Policy

> Interpret severity as an enforcement policy: mandatory concepts become gates, recommended concepts become review findings, contextual concepts require scope justification, and discouraged concepts require explicit exception approval.

Record: `algorithms:severity-policy`
Kind: algorithm
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms#algorithms-severity-policy
Closure: https://banes-lab.com/json/records/algorithms/severity-policy/closure

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [Conflict and Tension Resolution](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/conflict-and-tension-resolution.md) and before [Violation Detection](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/violation-detection.md).

## Domain

- [Architecture relationships](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/arch-relationships.md)

## Tier

- [leaf](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/domain-tier-leaf.md)

## Composed by

- [Anti-Pattern Rule Compiler](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/anti-pattern-rule-compiler.md)
- [Architecture Fitness Function Generation](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/architecture-fitness-function-generation.md)

## Math type

- [Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/math-type-optimization.md)

## Force

- [Security governance](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/security-governance.md)

## Linked from

- [Principles are typed](https://banes-lab.com/software-architecture/principles/principles-are-typed.md)
- [Anti-patterns](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-anti-patterns.md)
- [Architecture relationships](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-arch-relationships.md)
- [The mathematics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-mathematics.md)
- [Domain tiers](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-domain-tier.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)