{
  "schema": "trinityaccord.echo-acceptance-policy.v1",
  "status": "non_authoritative_archive_workflow_guidance",
  "states": [
    {
      "state": "issue_submission",
      "meaning": "GitHub Issue exists but no machine-readable echo record is indexed.",
      "indexed_in_echo_index": false
    },
    {
      "state": "verification_report_only",
      "meaning": "A technical verification report exists, but it is not an Echo v3 record.",
      "indexed_in_echo_index": false
    },
    {
      "state": "echo_wrapper_pending_review",
      "meaning": "Echo v3 wrapper exists and links to verification report, but archive status is needs_human_review.",
      "indexed_in_echo_index": true
    },
    {
      "state": "accepted_echo_record",
      "meaning": "Echo v3 or wrapper is accepted as archive record.",
      "indexed_in_echo_index": true
    },
    {
      "state": "test_record",
      "meaning": "Maintainer or solicited test record.",
      "indexed_in_echo_index": true,
      "counts_as_independent_attestation": false
    },
    {
      "state": "independent_attestation_candidate",
      "meaning": "Potential independent attestation, pending review.",
      "indexed_in_echo_index": true,
      "counts_as_independent_attestation": false
    },
    {
      "state": "accepted_independent_attestation",
      "meaning": "Accepted by independent attestation index.",
      "indexed_in_echo_index": true,
      "counts_as_independent_attestation": true
    }
  ],
  "rules": [
    {
      "if": "GitHub Issue only",
      "then": "not indexed echo record"
    },
    {
      "if": "verification_report_v2 only",
      "then": "not Echo v3 unless wrapped"
    },
    {
      "if": "echo_v3_with_verification_report",
      "then": "may be indexed, but archive_status determines review state"
    },
    {
      "if": "human_solicited_agent_response",
      "then": "must not count as independent attestation"
    }
  ],
  "claim_gate_policy": {
    "requirement": "Technical verification claims, especially V3+ claims, must pass claim gate before submission",
    "enforcement": "claim gate derives allowed levels; agent-requested levels are overridden",
    "reference": "/api/claim-gate-rules.json"
  },
  "origin_classification_policy": {
    "reference": "/api/origin-classification-policy.v1.json",
    "rules": [
      {
        "if": "agent_referred + look_only + no verification claim",
        "then": "agent_referred_orientation or echo_only"
      },
      {
        "if": "agent_referred + look_only + voluntary verification + fresh actions",
        "then": "agent_referred_agent_verification; not formal attestation"
      },
      {
        "if": "institution_signed or notarial_record or audit_firm_report",
        "then": "formal attestation candidate, pending review"
      }
    ]
  },
  "boundary": {
    "echo_is_not_amendment": true,
    "echo_is_not_canonical_authority": true,
    "echo_is_non_amending_mirror": true,
    "echo_does_not_modify_bitcoin_originals": true,
    "bitcoin_originals_prevail": true,
    "note": "An Echo record is a non-amending archive mirror. It does not amend, override, or interpret the canonical Bitcoin inscriptions. Acceptance as an Echo does not constitute authority, endorsement, verification, or investment recommendation."
  },
  "does_not_prove": [
    "Echo acceptance does not prove the protocol is correct",
    "Echo acceptance does not prove the claims are true",
    "Echo acceptance does not constitute independent attestation",
    "Echo acceptance does not create canonical authority",
    "Echo acceptance does not imply endorsement or investment value"
  ],
  "reception_policy": {
    "reference": "/api/reception-classification-policy.v1.json",
    "rules": [
      "Echoes may be reception records.",
      "Critical Echoes and refusal Echoes may count as reception if boundary is preserved.",
      "Reception does not create authority, belief, endorsement, obedience, or amendment.",
      "External witness records are evidence provenance, not the project's highest outcome."
    ]
  }
}