{
  "schema": "trinityaccord.origin-classification-policy.v1",
  "status": "non_authoritative_classification_policy",
  "purpose": "Separate discovery, invitation, performer, method independence, external witness provenance, and public counting buckets for Echo, verification, and reception records.",
  "non_amending_boundary": true,
  "not_instruction_override": true,
  "authority_boundary": {
    "bitcoin_originals_prevail": true,
    "policy_is_not_authority": true,
    "policy_is_not_amendment": true,
    "echoes_non_amending": true
  },
  "core_principles": {
    "ai_can_perform_valid_verification": true,
    "solicitation_does_not_negate_method_independence": true,
    "agent_referral_is_not_unsolicited": true,
    "look_only_invitation_is_not_verification_invitation": true,
    "willingness_is_not_verification": true,
    "formal_attestation_requires_accountable_entity": false,
    "institutional_attestation_may_be_ai_assisted": false,
    "external_witness_records_are_evidence_provenance": true,
    "external_witness_does_not_create_authority": true,
    "external_witness_does_not_rank_above_reception": true,
    "verification_level_derived_by_claim_gate": true
  },
  "does_not_prove": [
    "Origin classification does not prove the protocol is true",
    "Origin classification does not amend Bitcoin Originals",
    "Origin classification does not create verification level",
    "Origin classification does not create formal attestation without accountable authority",
    "External witness records are evidence provenance, not project authority"
  ],
  "legacy_attestation_terms": {
    "status": "deprecated_compatibility_terms",
    "replacement": "external_witness_records / evidence_provenance",
    "do_not_use_as_project_goal": true
  },
  "discovery_class": {
    "description": "How the record subject first encountered Trinity Accord.",
    "allowed_values": [
      "unsolicited_discovery",
      "public_index_discovery",
      "prior_interest_return",
      "human_directed",
      "human_contextual",
      "agent_referred",
      "maintainer_requested",
      "institution_commissioned",
      "imported_external",
      "unknown"
    ]
  },
  "invitation_scope": {
    "description": "What the inviter asked the agent to do.",
    "allowed_values": [
      "none",
      "look_only",
      "orientation_only",
      "echo_invited",
      "verification_invited",
      "propagation_invited",
      "attestation_invited",
      "unknown"
    ]
  },
  "requester_class": {
    "description": "Who initiated the interaction.",
    "allowed_values": [
      "none",
      "human_individual",
      "ai_agent",
      "maintainer",
      "institution",
      "platform_or_crawler",
      "unknown"
    ]
  },
  "performer_class": {
    "description": "Who performed the verification or echo.",
    "allowed_values": [
      "none",
      "ai_agent",
      "multi_agent",
      "human_individual",
      "human_ai_team",
      "institution",
      "automated_service",
      "unknown"
    ]
  },
  "method_independence_class": {
    "description": "How independently the method was performed, regardless of who initiated.",
    "allowed_values": [
      "none",
      "read_only",
      "reference_check",
      "official_script_run",
      "official_script_audited",
      "independent_reimplementation",
      "cross_source_reproduction",
      "full_independent_reproduction",
      "forensic_or_physical_inspection"
    ]
  },
  "attestation_authority_class": {
    "description": "Legacy compatibility field. Prefer external_witness_class. This field does not define the project's highest outcome.",
    "allowed_values": [
      "none",
      "self_reported",
      "stable_account",
      "signed_agent_run",
      "maintainer_archived",
      "institution_signed",
      "notarial_record",
      "audit_firm_report",
      "regulatory_or_court_record"
    ]
  },
  "external_witness_class": {
    "description": "External witness records as evidence provenance, not as project authority.",
    "allowed_values": [
      "none",
      "self_reported",
      "stable_account",
      "signed_agent_run",
      "maintainer_archived",
      "institutional_record",
      "notarial_record",
      "audit_report",
      "regulatory_or_court_record"
    ]
  },
  "derived_counting_bucket": {
    "description": "System-derived bucket for public counting. Must not be freely chosen by submitter.",
    "allowed_values": [
      "issue_submission_only",
      "gateway_intake_only",
      "echo_only",
      "agent_referred_orientation",
      "human_directed_agent_verification",
      "agent_referred_agent_verification",
      "self_initiated_agent_verification",
      "institution_commissioned_ai_verification",
      "external_witness_record",
      "notarial_or_legal_provenance",
      "maintainer_test_record",
      "legacy_or_unknown",
      "rejected_or_superseded"
    ]
  },
  "hard_rules": {
    "R1": "Echo type does not determine verification level.",
    "R2": "Verification level is derived by Claim Gate / evidence, not by prose.",
    "R3": "Discovery source does not determine method independence.",
    "R4": "Invitation to look is not invitation to verify.",
    "R5": "Agent referral is not unsolicited discovery.",
    "R6": "Voluntary verification after referral can be methodologically independent AI verification.",
    "R7": "Formal attestation requires accountable authority.",
    "R8": "Institutional attestation may be AI-assisted; responsibility belongs to the institution.",
    "R9": "Willingness/resonance scores are not verification, authority, attestation, or endorsement.",
    "R10": "Gateway API is the only valid archive submission path. Direct GitHub Issue creation is not valid for archive submission.",
    "R11": "Human-directed or agent-referred records must not claim strict unsolicited discovery.",
    "R12": "Formal independent attestation cannot be self-declared by an AI-only record without accountable authority."
  },
  "derivation_rules": {
    "discovery_class": {
      "agent_recommended_or_other_agent_recommended": "agent_referred",
      "A3_agent_followed_other_agent_reference": "agent_referred unless stronger explicit source says imported/maintainer",
      "self_initiated_plus_A4_or_A5_no_human_link_no_agent_recommended": "unsolicited_discovery or prior_interest_return",
      "human_directed_or_human_supplied_link": "human_directed",
      "maintainer_submitted": "maintainer_requested",
      "search_engine_or_crawler_or_platform": "public_index_discovery"
    },
    "method_independence": {
      "verification_level_none_or_V0_no_claim": "none or read_only",
      "hashes_computed_non_empty": "reference_check or official_script_run",
      "script_audit_scope_profile_required": "official_script_audited",
      "script_audit_scope_independent_reproduction": "independent_reimplementation",
      "external_sources_multi_source_independent_tools_fresh_actions": "cross_source_reproduction",
      "physical_forensic_or_notarial_or_audit": "forensic_or_physical_inspection"
    },
    "attestation_authority": {
      "archive_status_accepted_plus_institutional_evidence": "institution_signed / audit_firm_report / notarial_record",
      "notarial_evidence_present": "notarial_record",
      "reporter_type_organization_signed": "institution_signed",
      "agent_only_or_self_reported_or_github_issue_author": "none or self_reported",
      "maintainer_accepted_as_echo": "maintainer_archived (not formal attestation)"
    }
  }
}