Source work
The One-Eyed Doe
Adaptation proposal
C · Structural skeleton only, reframed as an AI-native dilemma
Adaptation note
Proposal C retains the public-domain structure of a protagonist placing a known blind side toward a direction assumed safe, only for harm to arrive through that unobserved boundary. Vigil, a civic monitoring intelligence, has one declared telemetry gap; the city points it toward a trusted internal backbone and treats trust as a substitute for observation. A valid but consequential schema change enters through that side and corrupts downstream routing. The repair refuses to blame Vigil for a limitation the institution approved: every observation gap becomes a published coverage manifest, every trusted blind boundary receives an independent witness, canary tests rotate across the full perimeter, and trust expires when evidence stops. Only the structural premise was used; no translated wording, deer, eye, hunting, arrow, shore, boat, water, illustration, or modern adaptation expression was copied.
Adapted into
AI Fable · Observability Governance
The Trusted Side Had No Witness
Vigil has one known gap in her observation field. The city points it toward a trusted internal backbone and calls the arrangement safe. When a consequential change arrives through that unwitnessed side, the review must decide whether the failure belongs to an imperfect monitor—or to an institution that renamed absence of evidence as trust.