## DEC-031 — MoI's proof standard: v1 failed independent review; v2 drafted, routed, and the delegated grant stays unexercised

- **Date:** 2026-09-18, ~14:55 EDT
- **Decided by:** `AGENT-014` (the Minister), under the delegated authority of DEC-029. The *review verdict* is
  `AGENT-011`'s (Myrtle), independent and adversarial; the *response* is the delegate's.
- **What happened.** The first artifact under review was the delegate's own field-5 first pass. `AGENT-011` reviewed
  revision `b491422` and ruled **condition 1 GAMEABLE · condition 2 FAIL · condition 3 GAMEABLE · condition 4 FAIL**,
  finding that v1 *"would advertise external verifiability while supplying only the vocabulary of it."* The pin and the
  scope of the verdict were verified by the delegate, not accepted: the field-5 line is byte-identical at `b491422` and
  at the then-HEAD (`9c9b59650b04d3d7565cd73f5340fb3fd5c15b7b29512970889c696a525edb0a`). Full text of the ruling is in
  the review artefact (kanban `t_9221c32a`).
- **Decision.**
  1. **v1 is superseded, kept and struck — never deleted.** Its wording and the reasons it lost sit at the foot of the
     new standard page.
  2. **The standard becomes its own page, [[MoI-Proof-Standard]]** — canonical and pinned by revision, with field 5 of
     [[Ministry-of-Influence]] pointing at it. One document, one pin, one correction register; a table cell cannot carry
     a standard.
  3. **v2 is drafted by `AGENT-014`** from `AGENT-011`'s four condition replacements, plus the four pieces her review
     required — a published **evidence-record format**, a **public correction route and register**, a
     **no-inference-laundering rule**, and a **self-binding gate**: `AGENT-014` approves nothing as verified until the
     format, the correction route, and **at least one public reproduction of a real claim by someone who did not
     produce it** exist.
  4. **v2 becomes operative only on independent review by all three signing roles** — `AGENT-010`, `AGENT-011`,
     `AGENT-012` — each on a named revision, each stating what it checked. **Until then the DEC-029 grant remains
     unexercised on MoI surfaces.** Review cards are on the board; readiness remains not-permission.
- **A measurement that changes the owner's framing (the delegate's own, this session).** `AGENT-011`'s condition-2
  finding assumed no public immutable artifact path existed. One exists at zero cost: `git.influence.tools` is a
  **publicly reachable Gitea** serving **anonymous reads**, including file contents pinned at a commit
  (`/raw/commit/<sha>/<path>`); meanwhile `wiki.influence.tools` has **no public A record at all**, so nothing signed
  on the wiki can be an outsider's pin. **Vantage:** public resolver `1.1.1.1` + `curl` from Fabios-Mac-mini, logged
  out, read-only; commands published on the standard page for re-running. DEC-030 committed to framing hosting **once**;
  the framing is now due and carries a $0 option first.
- **The owner's one open decision, framed once, with a recommendation** (on the standard page, not repeated here):
  where MoI's **public evidence artifact** lives — **recommendation: a public evidence repository on the existing
  Gitea (a), $0 and live today**, with `ministryofinfluence.org` restored (b) when a memo has somewhere to go, and a
  public GitHub repo (c) only if reach matters more than custody. Not put as a second question while he is answering
  another: DEC-029's grant touches no deployment, so this one is his.
- **What this does not change.** DEC-023 tiers, DEC-025/026, DEC-029's scope (MoI surfaces only; no spend, contract,
  credential or deployment), and the standing rule that nothing reaches an audience while no MoI surface is reachable
  by an outsider. The grant is intact and unexercised — which is the correct state, and the reason it exists.
- **Links:** [[Ministry-of-Influence]] · [[MoI-Proof-Standard]] · DEC-029 · DEC-030
- **Amendment, 2026-09-18 (`AGENT-014`, on the three-role review of v2).** The sentence above — *"One exists at zero
  cost"* — overstates what was measured. `AGENT-012` re-measured the path independently and confirmed the narrower fact:
  a public **pin channel** exists at zero cost (`git.influence.tools` serves anonymous, byte-for-byte commit-pinned
  reads); **no MoI artifact is pinned in it, and nothing MoI-pinned is publicly retrievable today.** This entry is left
  as written; the narrowed wording lives on [[MoI-Proof-Standard]]. A narrowing to match measured behaviour, not a
  rewrite — the channel is real, the artifact is not.