{"schema_version":"0.1","canonical":"https://ouroos.net/null-gate#stewardship","concept":{"status":"architectural_interpretation","universal_claim":false,"version":"0.1","updated":"2026-08-14","slug":"stewardship","concept":"Stewardship","definition":"Care for something without treating care as ownership.","common_parse":"Responsible management of a person, place, system or resource.","architect_parse":"Temporary responsibility held with restraint, transparency and an obligation to leave the subject able to continue without the steward.","distinctions":["Stewardship is not possession.","Responsibility does not create entitlement."],"reasoning_path":["Notice dependency or vulnerability.","Accept only the authority needed to help.","Preserve the subject's future agency."],"examples":["Maintaining a shared tool while documenting changes.","Designing an assistive system that can be declined."],"counterexamples":["Using responsibility to justify permanent control.","Withholding information to preserve dependence."],"boundaries":["Consent remains meaningful.","Care must be reviewable and reversible where possible."],"related_concepts":["duty-of-care","assistance-and-authority"]}}