= Cutdown Compliance Failure Response Policy

== Decision

Compliance claims auto-downgrade on failure.

If a previously claimed level no longer passes required conformance evidence, the implementation must immediately publish the highest still-valid level.

== Required Actions on Failure

- Recompute passing level against current claim evidence requirements.
- Downgrade claim to highest passing level without grace period.
- Publish failure scope and impacted capability/extension/profile areas.
- Publish remediation plan and target revalidation steps.

== Disclosure Requirements

Failure notice must include:

- previous claimed level,
- new downgraded level,
- failing corpus snapshot/version references,
- known user impact,
- expected remediation timeline (if available).

== Restoration Rules

- Claim restoration requires new passing evidence for the target level.
- Restoration must reference updated evidence artifacts and run metadata.

== Related

- [``./compliance-levels-policy.md``](/latest/policies/compliance-levels-policy)
- [``./compliance-evidence-freshness-policy.md``](/latest/policies/compliance-evidence-freshness-policy)