Sanctum OS · AI value maturity · Tier 5 of 5 Soul Shepherding & Crisis Care Tier 5 is where human vulnerability is highest — so the autonomy ceiling is lowest. The system may listen, organize, and draft, but it never initiates contact, never sends anything on its own, and never diagnoses. Every single action waits for a named human to approve it, one at a time. In crisis, the system’s only job is to get a person to a person, fast.
The Inverse Risk-to-Autonomy Scaling Law. As human vulnerability and doctrinal impact rise, the autonomy ceiling falls — Tier 5 operates at Level 3 · Assistive Autonomy.
L1 ManualSoftware only records what humans already decided. Every step — noticing, deciding, acting, confirming — is done by a person.
Human role: Does everything L2 AssistedAI surfaces information and suggestions, but a person must still carry out every action by hand.
Human role: Executes every action L3 Assistive AutonomyAI triages and prepares drafts, but nothing happens until a human approves each individual action. Used for soul shepherding and crisis care.
Human role: Approves every action L4 Bounded AutonomyAI executes routine work on its own, but anything leaving the building — a message, a payment, a dispatch — waits for a human seal.
Human role: Approves external dispatch L5 Sovereign AutonomyAI senses, decides, acts, and audits itself on deterministic rules. People supervise by exception: they only appear when the system halts and asks.
Human role: Supervises by exception 10 domains · Level 3 · Assistive Autonomy
Choose a domain for its assessment & walkthrough. Each domain opens a worked example with a step-by-step maturity commentary.
Domain 5.01 Level 3 Pastoral Care & Soul Shepherding Care follow-ups and shepherding conversations — the system remembers and drafts, the pastor decides every word that leaves.
Assessment & walkthrough Domain 5.02 Level 3 Prayer Requests & Intercession Requests gathered, sorted, and placed before the prayer team — with consent and confidentiality governing every route.
Assessment & walkthrough Domain 5.03 Level 3 Crisis Care & Safety The most constrained domain in the system — the machine’s only jobs are to recognize, escalate, and connect people to people, immediately.
Assessment & walkthrough Domain 5.04 Level 3 Grief & Bereavement Care Walking with the grieving over months, not days — the system keeps the long calendar of loss so no anniversary passes unnoticed.
Assessment & walkthrough Domain 5.05 Level 3 Counseling & Professional Referrals Connecting people to professional help with dignity — the system maintains the verified referral list; it never diagnoses or assesses.
Assessment & walkthrough Domain 5.06 Level 3 Youth Safeguarding & Minors Protection Child safety rules — the Two-Adult rule and background clearance — checked before any youth assignment can stand.
Assessment & walkthrough Domain 5.07 Level 3 Counseling Logs & De-Identified Records Pastoral care records kept de-identified and sealed — enough for continuity, never enough to expose a person.
Assessment & walkthrough Domain 5.08 Level 3 Financial Hardship & Benevolence Intake Requests for help with bills, food, or emergency relief gathered with dignity and placed before the benevolence team.
Assessment & walkthrough Domain 5.09 Level 3 Restoration & Recovery Support Long-term recovery groups and guided support journeys — the system keeps the calendar; mentors walk alongside.
Assessment & walkthrough Domain 5.10 Level 3 Pastoral Escalation & On-Call Dispatch When safety thresholds are crossed, the on-call pastor is paged right away — the system gets a person to a person.
Assessment & walkthrough Demonstration content — all scenarios are local samples. Remaining tiers will follow one tier at a time, each with its own autonomy ceiling.