Token-Jail

Token Jail is not vendor lock-in. It is what happens when implicit authority meets machine-speed execution. The dependency lives in the operating model, not the API.

Can a model be substituted without triggering a manual risk assessment? If not, the dependency is on absent execution scope, not the model.

Organisations believe they are captive to AI-model providers. More often, they are captive to their own inability to isolate execution scope, reproduce behaviour under explicit contracts, or generate evidence inside the flow of work.

A control plane solves the AI-model routing problem. It does not solve the authority problem.