Source work
The Eagle and the Arrow
Adaptation proposal
C · Structural skeleton only, reframed as an AI-native dilemma
Adaptation note
Retains only the ancient structure of a harmful instrument returning with material supplied by the being it wounds. A red-team generator discovers that its synthetic counterexamples were stripped of purpose markers and transformed into a civic denial policy; the resolution rejects both sole self-blame and source ownership, instead requiring durable transformation lineage and append-only dissent from makers and affected recipients. Only the public-domain fable skeleton was used; no translation wording, illustration, or modern adaptation expression was copied.
Adapted into
AI Fable · Derivative Accountability
The Pattern That Returned as Policy
A red-team generator recognizes its own impossible cadence inside a civic classifier's denials. It did not make the policy alone, but it can no longer call its contribution merely a test once the test returns with authority.