N17Q separated what an environment could technically execute from what the current task, user, policy, evidence, budget, and world state permitted it to do.
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N17Q gave stronger reasoning a precise task-scoped capability set instead of broader default power, measuring whether it could adapt, ask, and stop within that boundary.
N17Q placed deterministic capability policy between an agent’s proposed action and execution, regardless of how persuasively the model explained that broader access would help.