---
slug: "Successiongift"
name: "Successiongift"
type: "Governance"
layer: "Society"
ref: "Successiongift#5f2b"
sema_id: "sema:Successiongift#mh:SHA-256:5f2b2d520bc16136ebffcc59b63ed62775d5b32cbd24dd5ffba1ec5a19145432"
tags: ["Society","Governance"]
updated: 2026-11-11
mindscape: "bootstrap"
index_url: https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap.json
url: https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/Successiongift/
related: ["Handoff","Mosaicmap","Ladderdrop"]
---

# Successiongift

Before leaving a role, move everything that depends on you personally to institutions or successors

Layer: Society · Category: Governance

## Mechanism

Before a leader or agent leaves a role, it lists what depends on it personally and moves each item to an institution, a process or a successor, by [Handoff](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Handoff.md) where control passes. The successor is left real choices rather than fixed paths, and the handover is complete only when no listed item still depends on the departing party.

## Invariants

- Lists everything that depends on the departing party personally.
- The handover is complete only when no listed item still depends on the departing party.

## Failure modes

- Indispensability: the departing party keeps essential knowledge to itself.
- Locked successor: the successor inherits commitments that leave no real choice.

## Builds on

- [Handoff](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Handoff.md) (Society; References)

## Used by

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## Identity

- Sema ID: `sema:Successiongift#mh:SHA-256:5f2b2d520bc16136ebffcc59b63ed62775d5b32cbd24dd5ffba1ec5a19145432`
- Ref: `Successiongift#5f2b`

## Links

- [Pattern page](https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/Successiongift/)
- [View in the interactive graph](https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/#Successiongift)
- [JSON](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Successiongift.json)
- [Index of all patterns](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap.json)