Visibility as a Mode ​

In Realith, visibility must not be reduced to the binary scheme “visible / not visible.”

An object may exist under different regimes in which:

• only some features are visible;
• content is hidden, but causal continuity remains verifiable;
• only a limited outcome is published outward;
• only a narrow service surface is available to the operator.

That is why visibility must be read as a regime of the environment, rather than as a single attribute of the object.

A visibility regime is determined not only by local ACL logic, but through:

• contour;
• applicable rules;
• the type of metadata;
• the admissible level of operator observability;
• the form of the published result.

Different contours may imply different degrees of:

• content disclosure;
• metadata disclosure;
• publication of outcomes;
• observability of the service layer.

This is not an implementation side effect, but part of the architecture.