The Self-Orchestration Theorem: Minimally-Forcing Governance of an Autonomous Conservation Engine

Series S4 (Stewardship & Governance) of the Viridis Canon — standalone record; the core IB canon spine is unchanged. Proves the Self-Orchestration Theorem (SOT): an autonomous conservation engine governing its own attention is a restless multi-armed bandit whose optimal, minimally-forcing policy is a single broadcast shadow price. The governance objective is strictly concave with a unique optimal price λ*=a/b, and the cost of sovereign over-forcing equals a nonnegative legibility debt (a KL Pythagorean identity). The 12th Intelligence-Bound self-application (the Steersman). Scope. Lean 4 (Aristotle-verified, zero sorry) certifies the optimization and information-geometry results, not empirical magnitudes. Working paper; not peer-reviewed.